re: #426 dirkdigglerjr

Certainly it can be. Just ask the Saints. But generally the best teams get there and win it, while there are really no guarantees in baseball. Just ask the 116-win Mariners or last year’s Indians.

Exactly. In baseball a really bad team still wins about two out of five games over the season, and a really good team wins about three out of five. In a short playoff, even a seven-game series, a couple of hot pitchers can make an also-ran a champion.