playoff history

[Galvatraz]

Does anyone have a site where I could find a listing of all 8 playoff teams for every year since the expansion? I've got a term paper to write and couldn't find the info neatly spelled out anywhere. I checked a few on the links post, but didn't really find what i needed.

[No? in Austin]

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Does anyone have a site where I could find a listing of all 8 playoff teams for every year since the expansion? I've got a term paper to write and couldn't find the info neatly spelled out anywhere. I checked a few on the links post, but didn't really find what i needed.

 Baseball Reference - dot - com

Click on the postseason link.  But you won't get NLDS/ALDS information, just NL/ALCS and World Series participants.

[Galvatraz]

Thanks, but i really need all 8. I'm trying to make the point that a few elite teams are tying up alot of the playoff slots (including the astros) as a case for a salary cap. The yanks and braves alone have taken 25% of them over the last 10 years.

[jasonact]

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Thanks, but i really need all 8. I'm trying to make the point that a few elite teams are tying up alot of the playoff slots (including the astros) as a case for a salary cap. The yanks and braves alone have taken 25% of them over the last 10 years.

Check out Noe's link again and click "Postseason". I don't know why he said ALDS/NLDS isn't there. It is.

[Galvatraz]

you're right. much appreciated.

[JimR]

the teams who tie up thosed blasted playoff spots are the one who win a lot of games. money does not do that.

[Billy Zabka]

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I've got a term paper to write  

Sounds like a really easy class.

[Galvatraz]

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the teams who tie up thosed blasted playoff spots are the one who win a lot of games. money does not do that.

besides billy beane and a few runs by some other really good teams, it takes money. top half of the league in payroll at least.

[Galvatraz]

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I've got a term paper to write  

Sounds like a really easy class.

the class is horseshit. i just figured i could get to 10 pages pretty quick with this topic.

[Holly]

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I've got a term paper to write  

Sounds like a really easy class.

Heh. I got to write a final paper in my corporate tax class last May on any topic under the general umbrella of corporate taxes, so... I wrote one on the effectiveness of MLB's luxury tax. If anyone feels like nerding out and would like to read it, just drop me a message I found some interesting... results following distribution of the Central Fund (the pool of luxury tax collected).

[Arky Vaughan]

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Thanks, but i really need all 8. I'm trying to make the point that a few elite teams are tying up alot of the playoff slots (including the astros) as a case for a salary cap. The yanks and braves alone have taken 25% of them over the last 10 years.

It's better to compare wins to payroll rather than playoff berths to payroll:

The Link

[No? in Austin]

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Thanks, but i really need all 8. I'm trying to make the point that a few elite teams are tying up alot of the playoff slots (including the astros) as a case for a salary cap. The yanks and braves alone have taken 25% of them over the last 10 years.

Check out Noe's link again and click "Postseason". I don't know why he said ALDS/NLDS isn't there. It is.

Because I was on my way out of the office so I rushed to post the link for him and didn't check it thoroughly.  That and the fact that I suck too!

[No? in Austin]

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the teams who tie up thosed blasted playoff spots are the one who win a lot of games. money does not do that.

besides billy beane and a few runs by some other really good teams, it takes money. top half of the league in payroll at least.

Repeat after me "It's not how much money you spend, it's how wisely you spend the money you have at your disposal."  You will find that the Braves and Yanks at one time (and it still may hold true for the Braves) supplemented their roster with there superior farm systems.  The Yanks nowadays have almost no farm system guys on their team.  Posada, Jeter and Mo Rivera from what I can quickly deduce.  Steinbrenner started spending like a mutha once his cable deal went through, and guess what... that's when they also stopped winning championships too.

They had better *teams* (which is where *any* conversation should begin and end) with better pitching when they grew their own and supplemented the homegrown with a few merecenaries.  Not what they're doing now.  (They being the Yanks of course, the Braves are still a marvel of an organization that runs young guys up every year and all they do is win).

[Galvatraz]

that article is going to be wildly helpful

[No? in Austin]

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I've got a term paper to write  

Sounds like a really easy class.

Heh. I got to write a final paper in my corporate tax class last May on any topic under the general umbrella of corporate taxes, so... I wrote one on the effectiveness of MLB's luxury tax. If anyone feels like nerding out and would like to read it, just drop me a message I found some interesting... results following distribution of the Central Fund (the pool of luxury tax collected).

You should've been around here during the 2004 off-season when the talk of the new collective bargaining agreement, luxury tax implications and of course Scott Boras all came into alignment.  I was damn sure reading what I did about the luxury tax in the mlb, plus other revenue sharing information, that Boras was in for a rude awakening trying to find a hundred million for his client, one Mr. Carlos Beltran.

I based my estimate of 65 million tops for Beltran on the previous signing of Vlad Guerrero in the offseason of 2003.  And darn it if Boras didn't succeed in making the owners into the chumps they really are in 2004.  Now the salaries are out of hand once again and nary a word is spoken of luxury taxes and such.

MLB owners suck!

[No? in Austin]

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that article is going to be wildly helpful

You talking about Arky's column?  Yes, yes it is!

[Galvatraz]

I was lurking around 2004, just had a different handle and didn't post much. Since a cap is not gonna happen anytime soon I think a decent solution would be to raise the percentage of what you pay for going over the cap to 1:1, like the NBA. The Yanks have broken it every year and even with an increasing percentage for repeat offenders are only at 40%. George might focus a little harder on the payroll if he was giving up close to 100 mil in just luxury taxes alone. Then again he still might not give a shit.

[No? in Austin]

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I was lurking around 2004, just had a different handle and didn't post much. Since a cap is not gonna happen anytime soon I think a decent solution would be to raise the percentage of what you pay for going over the cap to 1:1, like the NBA. The Yanks have broken it every year and even with an increasing percentage for repeat offenders are only at 40%. George might focus a little harder on the payroll if he was giving up close to 100 mil in just luxury taxes alone. Then again he still might not give a shit.

Mr. Who?  And if you're talking about George, he does and does not care all at the same time.  He cares because he knows he's going to get charge a ton of money, he doesn't care because the MLB offices do not have the backbone to carry through on the implementation of rules they've set up in terms of luxury taxes.  (I really hope you didn't mean to call Steinbrenner a rude remark)

[Galvatraz]

Sorry if I offended anyone. Not the point at all.

I just sort of agree with the south park mentality (especially the message from the 2 part episode last week). Either everything is ok to rag on, or none of it is...

I almost forgot, God Bless L. Ron Hubbard

[pravata]

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Sorry if I offended anyone. Not the point at all.

I just sort of agree with the south park mentality (especially the message from the 2 part episode last week). Either everything is ok to rag on, or none of it is...

I almost forgot, God Bless L. Ron Hubbard

Right, if She doesn't who else will?  Everything that can be questioned should be.  And, if you notice, South Park does not fall back on mere name calling.  By all means, if you find someone acting stupid, describe it in minute detail.  But to fall back on common slurs?  Where's the fun in that?

[Limey]

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Right, if She doesn't who else will?  Everything that can be questioned should be.  And, if you notice, South Park does not fall back on mere name calling.  By all means, if you find someone acting stupid, describe it in minute detail.  But to fall back on common slurs?  Where's the fun in that?

Pffft!  Pussy.