Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 17, 2006
Massive Tie Review

It was a good day for a small massive tie as both the Padres and Phillies won. This put San Diego 1/2 game ahead of Los Angeles, and the Phillies one game back in the wild card. The Marlins and Reds lost, and it's just too complicated to get a reasonable tie scenario including Cincinnati, so the Reds join the Astros as a team I'm leaving out of the massive tie.

I've been working on the number to see what's possible. The most wins San Diego and Los Angeles can collect to make a five way tie possible is 85. That would require the Marlins to go 11-2 and the Giants 11-3. Neither team looks capable of that at the moment. Still, the way these team have streaked this season, nothing is out of the question.

Here's the scenario in which the five teams end up with 85 wins:

TeamRecord
Florida11-2
San Francisco11-3
Philadelphia8-5
Los Angeles7-6
San Diego7-7

The possibility of a makeup game between the Giants and the Cardinals the day after the season ends makes this all that much more interesting. But if the Giants and Marlins keep losing, I'll start rooting for the three way tie between San Diego, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:48 PM | Division Races | TrackBack (0)
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