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Three Team Tie Wild Card Scenarios

The 2016 season isn't over yet, but, if it were, there would be a three-team tie for the two wild-card spots in the National League. The Mets, Cardinals and Giants all came into Wednesday with identical 80-71 records. All three teams lost Wednesday night as well. 
 
It goes without saying the odds of those three teams finishing the regular season with identical records is tiny, though MLB is prepared for such a scenario.
 
Two teams play a tiebreaker game and the winner is one wild-card team. The loser plays the third team and the winner of that game gets the other wild-card spot. In this scenario you want to be Club A because you get the home tiebreaker game and a loss would not automatically mean elimination.
 
The Club A, B and C designations are determined according to a long cookbook formula. First up is head-to-head records. 
 
The Mets and Cardinals are 3-3 against each other and 4-3 against the Giants, so they're our Clubs 1 and 2. The Giants are Club 3.
 
Based on those intradivision records, the Cardinals are Club 1, the Mets are Club 2, and the Giants are Club 3. That does not mean the Cardinals are Club A for the tiebreaker scenario. It means the Cardinals get to pick whether they want to be Club A, B or C. Then the Mets get to pick. The Giants get whatever is left over.
 
Since Club A has the most favorable situation -- again, you get the home tiebreaker and a loss doesn't equal elimination -- it's safe to assume that the Cardinals would elect to be Club A. That leaves the Mets the choice of being Club B or Club C.
 
Club B gets two chances to win one game to claim a wild-card spot, but both games are on the road. That means travel and unfriendly environments and all that.
 
Club C plays one winner-take-all game for a wild-card spot. That game is at home and you get to play a tired team that just lost the first tiebreaker game and traveled from St. Louis.
 
So, after all of that, here are the tiebreaker games:
 
Game 1: Mets (Club B) at Cardinals (Club A), winner gets one wild card spot
Game 2: Loser of Game 1 at Giants (Club C), winner gets the other wild card spot
 
All of that only determines the two wild-card teams. So there's two tiebreaker games then the Wild Card game itself. 

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