Just how valuable is it for a playoff series to go the distance?‎

If the 2025 World Series had ended in five games, the series would have averaged 12.78 million viewers. That is not a bad viewership number by any means, but it pales in comparison to the eventual do-or-die Game 7, which drew 26.88 million. That, in a nutshell, is the value of a deep series. And…