Christian Ruzich pens an article at Baseball Prospectus on the tie-breaking playoff possibilities. One thing I didn't realize is that a three-way tie between division winners and a wild card team now results in a two game playoff instead of one.

Christian does not cover the possibility of a four way tie between NY, Seattle, Oakland and Boston. In that case, there would be a division playoff on day 1, and the losers would play a wild card playoff on day 2.

Correction: I had a wrong statement in the original post about the 1995 playoff. I've removed the incorrect statement.