October 29, 2007
Short Series
If you thought the post season was very sparse on games this year, you were right. This was the fewest games played since the start of the three tier system in 1995:
Number of post-season games played out of a possible 41
| Season | Games Played |
|---|
| 2007 | 28 |
| 1998 | 30 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 30 |
| 1995 | 31 |
| 1999 | 31 |
| 2000 | 31 |
We're clearly in a drought right now, with the last three years only producing 88 of a possible 123 games, 72%. This is one of those issues where on a gut level I feel like something should be done, but it's tough to make teams at the top of the leagues more competitive without making teams at the bottom of the league less competitive. Going into the playoffs, the NL teams seemed fairly balance and the AL teams seemed fairly balanced, but we only saw one competitive series, the ALCS.
The best year for games was 2003, in which 38 of 41 games were played. That's a real outlier, however, as the next closest year is 2001 with 35.
