Update: Wild-Card Round, Good or Bad?

   Major League Baseball has approved the new playoff format for the 2012 season.  One twist, however, is that the first two games of the Divisional Round will start at the lowest seeded team's home park.  This is a short, best-of five series already and this new rule immediately hurts the better team.  What is the advantage of having the best regular season record, except for the fact that they do not have to play an extra playoff game?