When the rumors started to swirl about the basic components of the new playoff format -- one extra wild-card team for a one-game play-in -- the open question had to do with how ties would be handled.
MLB Expanded Playoffs: No Coin Flips For Division Winners, According To Report
According to Jon Heyman, it looks like a tie will be settled by a one-game playoff to get to the one-game playoff:
word is, no one wins a division on a tiebreaker/coin flip. there will be a playoff for that, too.It’s preferable to a coin flip, for sure. But a succession of one-game playoffs is still a rough way to miss the playoffs. The silver lining: more baseball. So it can’t be that bad of a thing.
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