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UPDATE: New magic number: 1

***9:03 PM UPDATE: With the Angels win, the magic number is now 1.

The Angels can clinch home-field advantage in the first round tonight with a win and a White Sox loss.

My reasoning:

The Angels are 93-59, the White Sox are 84-68. If the Angels finish ahead of the White Sox, the worst they can possibly do is be the #2 seed in the AL, because:

* The Halos would have a better record than any AL Central team
* If the wild card comes out of the East, the Angels would play the wild card team, and the wild card team never gets home-field advantage.
* If the wild card came out of the Central, even if the Angels had a worse record than the AL East winner, the Angels would still have a better record than the Central winner, meaning the Angels would have home-field in the first round.

Game 1 will either be Oct. 1 (Wednesday) or Oct. 2 (Thursday).

Note: I first posted this at Bugs & Cranks. I'm usually not one to promote my stuff, but I hadn't seen anyone else mention this here. (I didn't want to start another epic post like Hostility Abounds a couple of days ago.)

 

 

This Fan-Post is authored by an independent fan and may or may not be a reflection of human evolution, divine enlightenment or nine cans into a 12-pack.

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Plus you have a 100-to-1 ratio of comments to fanposts...

So, I’d say you have escaped the Rev’s hot seat.

by Downing Rules on Sep 19, 2008 2:15 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Thanks

I’m a long-time lurker of HH — only started commenting this season, and even then, not overly frequently.

by gilbert on Sep 19, 2008 2:20 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Dude you are my peer

This is totally okay.

by Rev Halofan on Sep 19, 2008 5:49 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

so what's our magic number for

home field advantage for the 2nd round?

Hostility abounds on Halos Heaven

by thrill000 on Sep 19, 2008 3:08 PM PDT   0 recs

same

pretty much. It’s still 2 against Chicago. It’s 6 against Boston, and 9 against Tampa Bay.

by jjackflash on Sep 19, 2008 3:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yep, jjackflash is right

They have to have the best record (or the best record remaining) to have homefield in the ALCS.

I don’t like to think that far ahead though, because they have to win the first round first.

by gilbert on Sep 19, 2008 3:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Looking too far ahead...

I’m not considering there’s only a week left of the regular season. :)

Hostility abounds on Halos Heaven

by thrill000 on Sep 19, 2008 3:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

next question...

against which teams do we own tie breakers against? Only Boston (which is why the magic number is 6 and not 7), correct ?

Hostility abounds on Halos Heaven

by thrill000 on Sep 19, 2008 4:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

We split against the White Sox

And if they were to catch and tie us, they’d probably own the 2nd tiebreaker (winning percentage inside division).

So I left the magic number at 2 just to be safe.

by gilbert on Sep 19, 2008 4:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

no risk of the Rev's wrath

It’s all about whether someone is sincerely contributing to THIS community or trying to leech it for their own blog’s benefit. obviously, gilbert, you are an active member in this community, whereas others were not. They began their activity by trying to use this site’s popularity for their own selfish gains, whereas you have not.

by yeswecan on Sep 19, 2008 3:15 PM PDT   0 recs

a very luminous post

"why do you we still have quitlin?" -VladdyG

by cupie on Sep 19, 2008 3:41 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I actually use this site for my own selfish gains

I don’t have a blog; I’m computer illiterate; I’m socially challenged; I have a 1 in 5 chance of someone actually responding to a comment.

The way I figure it, is that even by accident, someone will read what I wrote…which is a hell of a lot better odds of someone paying attention in person.

GA GA he's the man, if he can't do it, no one can

by Moondoggy on Sep 19, 2008 10:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Now it's 1 in 4.9999999

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Sep 19, 2008 11:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was wondering this at work last night...

… thankfully my laziness was once again subdued by the diligence of Halos Heaven members.

by Northwest on Sep 19, 2008 3:44 PM PDT   0 recs

As GA would say to you

Well done, my student

i pledge alliegance... to mike Scioscia
and the angels way of baseball
and to each pennant and ring we are sure to win.
one fanatic, under the halo, unwavered
with in n out and world series rings for all

by halofan4life on Sep 19, 2008 4:52 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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