How many MLB games in total will be played in the 2008 regular season?

Question

How many MLB games in total will be played in the 2008 regular season?

Answer 1

Too many.  It's a long boring season in which most individual games are uneventful and meaningless.

Answer 2

4,860!!!

Answer 3

2,430 - 30 teams play 162 games, but every team plays another team so its really 15*162

Answer 4

162.

EDIT: Haha ooops!! I misunderstood your question. The other guys are right!

Answer 5

162 * 30 = 4860

considering we are not counting rain outs and games not finished

CJV has a point. "How many MLB games"

I am changing my answer: 81 * 30 or 162 * 15 = 2430

Answer 6

I went to this question precisely because I knew that people would just take 30 teams and multiply 30 x 162 and come up with 4,860, which off course is incorrect because every game involves two teams.

So give CJV the best answer right now!

Answer 7

Give CJV the credit.  She was the first to realize that two teams play in every game. (Duh!)

Of course, that is the plan; reality might be slightly off.  There could be a late season rain out that they can't fit into the schedule to replay.  If it doesn't affect the final standings it may not be made up.  In the case of a tie for a playoff position, a gme or games may need to be added to break that tie.  Such games are part of the regular season, with the statistics counting into everyone's season and career totals.

Answer 8

You have to take away all the double ups.... there are 2 teams in every game, so you can't really count each game twice 'cause it's just ONE game so instead 162*30 wouldn't it be 81*30. That is still probably not exact but it's all i've got.

Answer 9

Assuming all teams play their complete schedule of 162 games, just multiply 30  times 81 and that equals 2,430 games.

If you don't believe it, try to understand this, a 162 game schedule calls for 15 games per day.

14 AL teams divided by two  equals 7 games per day.

16 NL teams divided by two equals 8 games per day.

7 Al games plus 8 NL games equals 15 games "played per day" times the scheduled 162 games and that equals 2,430 games played .