Playoff Formats and Rosters w/ Rob Arthur, Ben Diamond, Greg Matthews, and Travis Sawchik

About this Episode

We sat down with Rob Arthur, Ben Diamond, Greg Matthews, and Travis Sawchik to talk about the MLB playoffs. We touched on playoff formats (past, present, and future?) and then moved on to talk about roster construction and optimization for the playoffs. After that, Harry and Kendall talk about the things they learned this week.

Links:

• Alternate Reality Playoff Races by Ben Diamond
• Let’s Improve the Wild-Card Round by Travis Sawchik
• The Yankees Are Built to Bullpen the Wild Card Game by Travis Sawchik
• Baseball’s ‘Hot Hand’ Is Real by Rob Arthur and Greg Matthews
• TWIL Harry: Beans & Bagels You never know where you're going to meet up with Bill James
• TWIL Kendall: Tyler Flowers Good catcher or best catcher?