[Alberta's Child]

The major flaw with inter-league play is that a team's record for the season can come down to the quality of the teams they play in the other league in that year. This was illustrated some years ago (maybe in the first couple of years of inter-league play) when the New York Mets had the best record in baseball in their intra-league games, but did so poorly in their inter-league games (they played the Yankees and Red Sox six times apiece that year, if I remember correctly) that they didn't even make the playoffs.

[scrabblehack]

It is far easier to attain a balanced schedule (within a division for sure) with six 5-team divisions than with two 5-team and a 4-team or two 5-team and a 6-team.

Now, should games be differentially weighted for the wild card?