What does that have to do with your comment i responded to? Based on the rules for this season, the Astros deserve to be in the playoffs.
They played sixty games and more than half of all teams qualified for the playoffs. It seemed highly likely that teams with bad records would get in... In 2005, the Astros were 23-37 after the first 60 games. Not saying they're going to win the pennant this year, just that it's a weird 60-game "season" and it's hard to judge any team with such a small number of games. If this were a normal season, we would still be five weeks away from the All Star break.
Of course, I'm not debating whether they are in the playoffs or not. I'm saying as a sub .500 team, we're likely not going to do much. And that sub .500 teams in general don't do much in the playoffs. The only team to remotely do anything good being slightly over .500 was the St. Louis Cardinals. I think they were like 5 or 6 over. Still, it's a **** season so anything can potentially happen.
In general....this applies to teams above 0.500 as well except instead of 1 in 30 or 1 in 20 chance..it is 1 in 10 up to a ~1 in 5 chance for the very best team.
Ha. Touche. I believe the only other team sub .500 is the Brewers this year right? We'll see what record sub .500 teams have after all of this. Man, looking at it now... 4 teams from the NL Central made it. That's nuts.
1981 was so long ago I don't think anybody remembers it was a weird year that nowadays people would say it'd be an 'asterisk' year.
The 1938 Chicago Blackhawks are the only team in any of the 4 major American sports to win a Championship. I think a few teams have made the finals (1960 Lakers are one), a few more have won their first round, but the vast majority lose in the first round.
That system was so, so stupid tbh. Honestly a complete joke. Some of the best teams in the league didn't even make it. They were punished for being consistently good.
