Tigers Den Roundtable: What is your ideal playoff format?

The current MLB Wild Card format has been a controversial change, to say the least. Traditionalists have loathed the Wild Card all along, even in its original form, while those of us that enjoy fun have loved the stakes of a winner-take-all game to get into the postseason.

However, we’re running into another situation where a really good team might get screwed. Few people batted an eye when the 98-win Pittsburgh Pirates lost a Wild Card game in 2015, but now that the New York Yankees might be the one getting the shaft? It’s time to fix everything.

FanGraphs’ Travis Sawchik — a Pirates beat writer during those Wild Card losses — offered an easy “fix” to the Wild Card Game. Instead of playing…