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162 expansion – 15 games × 6 opponents in-division (90 games), 10 games × 5 opponents and 11 games × 2 opponents interdivision (72 games) 1979 162 13 games × 6 opponents in-division (78 games), 12 games × 7 opponents interdivision (84 games) 1994 162 league splits into 3 divisions – schedules based on 1993 alignments 1997 162
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
In the list below (minimum 15 games played), six teams finished with better overall winning percentages than the 1906 Cubs, three being in the early years of the National league, and the other three in leagues whose status as "major" is questionable: two in the National Association, whose status as a major league has long been disputed, and the ...
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.
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.
ESPN's SportsCentury ranked it as the second greatest game of the 20th century. [17] In 1962, the first season of the NL expanded schedule to 162 games, the only best-of-three tie breaker in the 162-game season took place between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers with the Giants winning 2–1.
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.
Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams. 1961 would mark the last 154-game season in professional baseball history, as the National League itself would copy the American League 162-game format following their own expansion the following season.