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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
How do you know?
Money has gone up at the same time that wildcard started? Is that your "proof"? What about all the other things that have changed? Which have helped, which have hurt? TIA.
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Well you won't have a control group, as you state, but that's very obvious.
I could probably write a paper on it or at least a very long post – which I may do later. The wildcard is one of the factors in the game's current financial success – coming out of the '94 strike-shortened season, with the wildcard being put in place in '95. Even in the face of its diminishing importance on the landscape of American sports, baseball has become more profitable and franchise more valuable over the last twenty years.