Since 1995, the 3-Division/Wild-Card era, the average ending date has been today, October 27 — and that won’t change if the Cardinals can beat the Rangers tonight and force a Game 7 for tomorrow night. Strangely, the additional round of Playoffs hasn’t changed things nearly as much as did extending the LCS from best-of-5 to best-of-7.
All-time, including those anomalies (1911, ‘18, ‘81 and 2001), the average ending date has been October 16.
October 27, 1275: This is the traditional founding day of the city of Amsterdam, the capital and artistic center of The Netherlands. Home of lax laws regarding prostitution and drug use, Heineken and Amstel Light beers, and the mighty Amsterdamsche Football Club (AFC) Ajax (pronounced “EYE-ax”), founders of “Total Football,” which has given the world Johan Cruijff (sometimes spelled “Cruyff”), Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Louis van Gaal, Zlatan Ibrahimovich, and Arsenal stars Dennis Bergkamp, Marc Overmars, Nwankwo Kanu and Thomas Vermaelen.
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