I've always said the baseball season is too short
Number crunching: Major League baseball favors the underdog (lets play 256 games!)
According to physicists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in order to guarantee that the best team in baseball actually wins the World Series teams would need to play 256 games per team, well beyond the 162 games each Major League Baseball team currently plays in the regular season.According to the physicists' analysis and simulations of league play, there is always at least some chance that a lesser team can prevail in any given game.
The randomness of such outcomes means that it takes a large number of games to guarantee that the best team accumulates the most wins. The randomness of course also ensures that the thrill of the sport and the occasional underdog gets to prevail.
Specifically, the researchers says in order to make sure the best team wins the total number of games played in a season should be roughly the cube of the number of teams involved.
For the 16 team National League, that means 4096 regular season games altogether and 2744 games for the 14 team American League.
This is why scientists make the big bucks: to figure out the answers to the important questions in life. Lengthen the baseball season!
Hat Tip: Baseball Think Factory