MWC Tex Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 New playoff format this year with the top 4 teams playing in the playoff as oppose to last year where all teams played. First game starts at 3pm MT and can be watched on the MWDN via themw.com, the MW app on Apple or Android or on Livestream.com or Livestream app.http://www.themw.com/page/watch-live 3pm MT: SDSU vs Fresno 7pm MT: New Mexico vs Nevada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevada2012 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 My thinking is Nevada is playing decent ball right now. Won 3 out of last 4 series. Beat ranked Clemson team two weekends ago. Maybe they can ugly it up enough to get through.... Feeling good about Thursday's game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNLV2001 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 The MWC should be better in baseball overall - UNM has done well recently while SDSU has done ok..........Fresno needs to get back and UNLV can't remain the dud it's been for the last number of years. So based on the above, I can understand why the MWC went with the top 4 finishers & letting the last 3 sit home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brillio Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 3 minutes ago, UNLV2001 said: The MWC should be better in baseball overall - UNM has done well recently while SDSU has done ok..........Fresno needs to get back and UNLV can't remain the dud it's been for the last number of years. So based on the above, I can understand why the MWC went with the top 4 finishers & letting the last 3 sit home. I'm glad we cut the bottom three out. I never liked how some of our teams had to burn so many pitchers in such few days.. championship games and semi final games with scores of 17-10? No thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNLV2001 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 1 minute ago, brillio said: I'm glad we cut the bottom three out. I never liked how some of our teams had to burn so many pitchers in such few days.. championship games and semi final games with scores of 17-10? No thanks. Good point, the deeper format burned starting pitcher in 1 vs 7 & 2 vs 6 games.........this 4 team format will have the best arms going head to head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind_squirrel54 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 1 minute ago, brillio said: I'm glad we cut the bottom three out. I never liked how some of our teams had to burn so many pitchers in such few days.. championship games and semi final games with scores of 17-10? No thanks. I agree. With 7 teams, it is easy to overwork pitches. To your last point, the tourney is in New Mexico so there may still be some high scoring games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWC Tex Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 15 hours ago, brillio said: I'm glad we cut the bottom three out. I never liked how some of our teams had to burn so many pitchers in such few days.. championship games and semi final games with scores of 17-10? No thanks. 15 hours ago, UNLV2001 said: Good point, the deeper format burned starting pitcher in 1 vs 7 & 2 vs 6 games.........this 4 team format will have the best arms going head to head I never took into account those points. It was just something I notice when looking at the brackets. It looks like its still a double elimination. Here is the line to the pdf. https://mwc-platform-secure.silverchalice.co/v3/files/5920d59fe4b0a219cd005e91 Here is last years bracket. https://mwc-platform-secure.silverchalice.co/v3/files/574922fde4b03f754fe32592 We basically cut out a day and 5 games. I like the new format and hope they keep it when Boise St gets baseball going to be the 8th baseball team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brillio Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Is Boise for sure starting up baseball? I kind of liked how each team had a bye for a weekend series and could get a series with another conference with odd number of teams, like us and Clemson this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWC Tex Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Strong winds are making the SDSU vs Fresno game a homerun clinic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...