Expert: Brian Flaspohler - 8/2/2007

Question
On average, how many games must a team win in order to make the playoffs? I'm interested because the Colorado Rockies are pretending to play ( a little) baseball this year. Yes, I know, we can't keep leaving players stranded on base or not beating those team we should, not to mention our on and off again offense and think we'll make the postseaon... But just in case, how many games do we need to win on average?

Answer
Peter,

On average, it takes 86 wins to get into the playoffs since the wildcard has been in place.  However, it depends on how well the top four teams in the league are playing and if a weak team gets in because it ends up leading a weak division.

90 wins is almost a cinch for the playoffs.

Hope this helps!

Brian