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The Major League Baseball (MLB) season schedule consists of 162 games for each of the 30 teams in the American League (AL) and National League (NL), played over approximately six months – a total of 2,430 games, plus the postseason.
Each team was scheduled to play 18 games against the other nine teams of their respective league. The 162-game, 18 games per team format had previously been used by the American League since the previous season due to expansion and was the first season that the National League used it due to their own expansion. The format would be used until 1969.
In the 1860s, aided by soldiers playing the game in camp during the Civil War, "New York"-style baseball expanded into a national game and spawned baseball's first governing body, the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP). The NABBP existed as an amateur league for 12 years. By 1867, more than 400 clubs were members.
New isn't always bad, but baseball's radical idea for postseason expansion should be aimed at improving the competition in the 162 regular season games.
It might take all 162 games to decide the playoff races in both the National League and American League. The epicenter of the wild-card chase this weekend is in Arizona at Chase Field. Thanks to ...
After more than three months, Major League Baseball and the players union agreed to a new deal to salvage a 162-game season.
On average, as of the early 2020's only about three players in all of baseball appear in even 162 regular season games of any given MLB season. The other method in which a player can be credited with more than 162 games played is when games are called with the score tied after the game becomes official, i.e. after five or more innings are played.
In 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic the schedule was shortened from 162 games to 60 and interleague opponents were switched to the corresponding divisions. The teams played 20 interleague games using the same format that was in place in 2015 and 2018, when the same geographic divisions were aligned together for interleague play.