The all-star game this season does not determine homefield advantage in the WS. I am happy about this. The All-Star game is an exhibition game in which everybody should play if possible and it definitely should take on a festive atmosphere. It was stupid to make the game "matter" by danging as something as important as homefield advantage as the prize to the winner.

 

The way to make the guys play hard and care more is to offer $500,000 per player on the winning team and $50,000 to each player on the losing team. That IMO would be better. But at least now the game is back to being a meaningless exhibition game, which it should be IMO. Do you agree?

Edited July 4, 20178 yr by greg775

The all-star game this season does not determine homefield advantage in the WS. I am happy about this. The All-Star game is an exhibition game in which everybody should play if possible and it definitely should take on a festive atmosphere. It was stupid to make the game "matter" by danging as something as important as homefield advantage as the prize to the winner.

 

The way to make the guys play hard and care more is to offer $500,000 per player on the winning team and $50,000 to each player on the losing team. That IMO would be better. But at least now the game is back to being a meaningless exhibition game, which it should be IMO. Do you agree?

 

I agree. I think $500k is a little rich, but the $20k to players on the winning team seems like a reasonable deal.

It's an All-Star game. Let it be what it is and allow ties.

Edited July 4, 20178 yr by Sox-35th

It was always a bad rule to determine home field advantage. Glad it's ended.

 

That said, I think this will be by far, the lowest rated all star game-- but it won't be because of the change back.

Since fans vote and influence the starting lineup, it shouldn't count.

Edited July 5, 20178 yr by soxfan2014

Since fans vote and influence the starting lineup, it shouldn't count.

 

This is basically what I've been saying for a long time. As far as I'm concerned, there are only 2 options.

 

1) No fan vote and make it count.

2) Fan vote and make it fun.

I think that it's good that it doesn't count. It's an exhibition. Let's see some hot dogging like they do in NBA All Star games.

The all-star game this season does not determine homefield advantage in the WS. I am happy about this. The All-Star game is an exhibition game in which everybody should play if possible and it definitely should take on a festive atmosphere. It was stupid to make the game "matter" by danging as something as important as homefield advantage as the prize to the winner.

 

The way to make the guys play hard and care more is to offer $500,000 per player on the winning team and $50,000 to each player on the losing team. That IMO would be better. But at least now the game is back to being a meaningless exhibition game, which it should be IMO. Do you agree?

 

 

Holy s*** I agree with Greg

I don't think there is any good way to determine home field advantage. I mean, before it used to rotate every year. That's even more random nothingness determining home field.

 

So now it's best record? Ok, but the fact that the NL teams have the 3 worst teams in baseball in their league obviously will skew it towards an NL team having home field most likely. They have more soft opponent games on their schedule. So it's not exactly perfect now, but it's probably as good as it will get.

How homefield advantage should be determined...

 

Eliminate divisions in leagues.

 

Play a close to balanced schedule

 

Top 5 teams in each league make the playoffs

 

Top seed gets HFA regardless of win total. So if a 2-seed has 92 wins in the AL, and a 3-seed in the NL has more, it still goes to the AL. If it's the same seed and win total, then some other tie breaker would need to be implemented.

Edited July 5, 20178 yr by flavum

Good.

Never been a fan of fan voting. The all Royal starting lineup was exhibit A. How embarrassing. The best way to make it "for the fans" is to put the best players out there. And what about all the players who designate their careers to be the best? They deserve to be recognized among the best. To watch Alcides Escobar start for the AL in 2015 was a flat out joke--while the Manny Machado's of the world sit and watch despite putting in the time to be the best. And why...because KC had the best FACEBOOK campaign!? What a joke--the rest of the MLB fans sit through the goofiness and roll their eyes till the real players start coming off the bench as subs. We should let the players determine who plays in the game...next thing we'll see is a freaking FACEBOOK campaign to see which teams should play in the World Series....Sorry Astros...The Detroit Tigers had more likes on their Instagram pics this year so they are going to represent the AL in the World Series...just wait for it...it's coming.

 

Now I will say the rosters this year are pretty strong...not sure about Zack Cozart starting for the NL over Corey Seager--that's sort of a joke, but at least it's not a big social movement to see "how many San Diego Padres we can vote in because they are the worst team--wouldn't that be funny" sort of thing.

Good move, home field advantage should go to the team with the best record.

I think it should go to the league that won interleague play.