Ah, the playoffs and the tangled we weaved in KOD21

Good News for NL Managers.  Other than a tie breaker for the NL West flag, the NL playoff picture was pretty easy to figure out.

1. ATL
2. HOU (Had better Run Diff than SFG)
3. PIT
4. WAS
5. SFG

The AL, on the other hand...Now this is where you needed a slide rule.

The top 3 saw Toronto take the #1 seed, because they had a better divisional record than CLE and took 2 of 3 from CAL in head to head action.  That was the easy part.  The hard part comes when we have to fill 2 WC slots from 3 teams with identical records (BAL, SEA, MIN).  This leads to a two tiered play in scenario.  I used the random # generator and SEA lucked out getting the lowest number.  That meant MIN would play vs BAL in game 1 with the winner hosting SEA for the actual play in game as part of the playoff rotation.  MIN/BAL is considered a regular season play in game to get to the WC play in game.  Seattle, by virtue of the best random # gets the bye, but also gets the lower seed #5..

Here's how the AL's murky post season picture looks:

1. TOR (Better Div record than CLE and better h2h record vs CAL)
2. CAL
3. CLE
4. Winner of MIN @ BAL
5. SEA