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Message: [QUOTE="donniesyracuse, post: 2915714, member: 101"] [URL='https://community.fangraphs.com/you-wouldnt-have-noticed-if-mlb-had-ties-in-2018/']You Wouldn’t Have Noticed If MLB Had Ties in 2018[/URL] I hold the controversial and allegedly "un-American" belief that ties in sports are fine. I certainly prefer them to gimmicky methods of breaking ties (e.g., shootouts, college football overtime) and contests that persist for so long, they merely become battles of attrition where results seem random (e.g., extra inning games when position players are used as pitchers, six-overtime basketball games that end with Kris Joseph playing center). The linked article suggests that ties would have had little impact on the 2018 MLB season. Of course, we don't know if teams would have made different in-game decisions with no extra-innings. [/QUOTE]