Schedules

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Section A: Regular Season Schedule
Item A I: Schedule Breakdown
The schedule would contain 162 games and be played in 20 Scoring periods. It will consist of 18 periods of 8 games and 2 periods of 9 games (188+29=162). The 162 games would be split up in the following manner:
56 games within division (14 x 4 opponents)
60 games against rest of league (6 x 10 opponents)
4 games against interleague "rivals" (4 x 1 opponent)
42 other interleague games (3 x 14 opponents)

19 games × 4 opponents in-division (76 games)
6 games x 10 interdivision games within-league (66 games)
20 inter-league games (16 vs a division from the other league (rotates annually) and 4 vs a "natural rival" (See below for a current list of natural rivals)

Item A II: Natural Rivals
Baltimore and Washington
Boston and Atlanta
New York Mets and New York Yankees
Miami and Tampa Bay
Toronto and Philadelphia
Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox
Cincinnati and Cleveland
Detroit and Pittsburgh
Kansas City and St. Louis
Milwaukee and Minnesota
Houston and Arizona
Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers
Oakland and San Francisco
San Diego and Seattle
Texas and Colorado

Section B: Regular Season Tiebreakers
If two or more teams in a division are tied for a playoff spot then the order of tiebreakers is determined by:
Head to head record
Divisional record (Win%)
Fantasy points scored
Two or more teams not in the same division that are tied for a playoff spot use fantasy points scored as the sole tiebreaker.

Section Playoff Schedule
Item C I: Playoff Teams and Seedings
At the end of the regular season, twelve teams will advance to the playoffs. In each league, the three division winners and the three remaining teams with the best record (wildcards teams) will make the playoffs and will be seeded as such:
No. 1 seed: Best league record
No. 2 seed: Second-best division winner
No. 3 seed: Third-best division winner
No. 4 seed: Best record among Wild Card teams
No. 5 seed: Second-best record among Wild Card teams
No. 6 seed: Third-best record among Wild Card teams
Item C II: Wild Card Series Week #21
For the Wild Card Series, the No. 3 seed will face the No. 6 seed, and the No. 4 seed will face the No. 5 seed.
The Nos. 1 and 2 seeds will receive first-round byes and advance directly to the Division Series.
The two non-division winning teams with the best records in each league will play each other to determine the Wild Card entrants.

Item C III: NLDS/ALDS Week #22
The No. 1 seed will face the winner of the Wild Card Series between the Nos. 4/5 seeds, while the No. 2 seed will face the winner of the Nos. 3/6 series.
The #1 and #2 best teams in each league have home-field advantage in the NLDS/ALDS
1.) The team with the best record in each league will have home field advantage against the team with the worst record in the league. However, such an opponent cannot be a team in that team's division. In this event, the team with the best record would play the Division Winner with the worst record.

Item C IV: NLCS/ALCS Week #23
Winners of NLDS and ALDS
The team with the home-field advantage is the division winner with the better record.
Item C V: World Series Week #24 & 25
Winners of NLCS and ALCS
Home-field advantage in the World Series is indicative of which real life team won the MLB Allstar game that season.