I was wondering what would happen if there was a massive tie for the NL Central/Wild Card. That is, what would happen if you had a three way tie for the NL Central, and simultaneously have two or more clubs in the other divisions also tied with those three teams, and all of them tied for the wild card. I know if there are two teams tied for the division and one team tied with them for the wild card, the two division teams playoff, and the loser goes home. But this is different, since their has to be a three team single elimination tournament to decide the division winner. The rules do cover such a contingency.

What happens is that the division winner is decided first. Two of the teams play on day 1, and the winner plays the third team on day 2. The winner of day 2 is the division winner. At that point, the two teams that lost go back into the wild card pool, and you have a playoff with all those teams. The rules cover up to four teams, but can be easily extended to cover more. So the division losers would not be automatically eliminated from the post-season, as is the case of two teams tied for the division and another tied with them for the wild card.