Alternative To The One-Game MLB Wild Card Round -- Weekend Of Truth

Background

Major League Baseball has a long tradition of playoff rounds set up as best-of-5 or best-of-7 games. Theory being... you play 162 regular season games, one single game shouldn't seal your fate.

Since the advent of a system where 5 teams per league make the playoffs, they've abandoned that. The two best teams in each league that don't win their division titles play a one-game playoff to determine two teams that will advance to the first 5-game-series round of the playoffs. Some don't like the do-or-die nature of that.

Proposal

I propose an alternative that respects the 162-game season, permits more than 4 teams per league to play in a meaningful post-season tournament where each round has 3 or more games... in such a way that you probably would not have to change the MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Details

The 162-game regular season schedule shall be developed such that all teams would be scheduled to
* play Game 159 on the last Wednesday of September.
* play Games 160-162 on the Friday thru Sunday to follow.
* open the Thursday in between to be designated as a universal open date.

Determine the top 6 teams in each league at the end of the Game-159 Wednesday.  Any two-way tie for 6th place would be broken in a one-game tie-breaker on Thursday.  Ties for 2nd thru 5th place would be broken by regular-season statistics of MLB's choosing (i.e. better head to head record, net runs, etc).

Every team plays their scheduled Games 160-162 as and where the schedule-makers originally decided, except for the #3-#6 teams in each league and their scheduled opponents.

The #3-#6 ranked teams would begin their Weekend Of Truth (WOT) Series (instead of a one-game Moment Of Truth)... four series played to determine who advances to play in the Divisional Series round of the playoffs.

Team #6 would play at team #3, and #5 at #4 in each league.  All of these games count toward regular season statistical totals.

The teams that had been scheduled to be the opponents of these WOT teams would, instead, be rescheduled to have games against other teams whose original schedule was usurped by the WOT games.  These also count toward regular-season statistical totals.

Advancing from the WOT to the Division Series

Each WOT series will last at least three games (to keep all teams to a 162-game schedule). Other than that, it should be treated as a best-of-5 series where the home team (out of respect for their better regular season record) gets spotted a 1-0 series lead before the initial actual game of the WOT series. 

Thus, if the home team then wins at least two of the three initially-scheduled games against the visiting team, the home team advances.

If the visiting team sweeps all three initially-scheduled games, they advance.

If the visitor wins two of the three games held Friday-Sunday, the two teams play a do-or-die 4th game Monday.

Example:

Based on the standings at the end of September 28, 2017 (yes, that's a Thursday... but many teams hadn't played their 159th game on the real-life schedule until Thursday), the following would happen:

The Angels and Royals would be tied for 6th in the AL. The winner of a Thursday game between the two would visit the Red Sox on the weekend.
The Twins would visit the New York Yankees.
The Brewers would travel to Wrigley to face the Cubs.
The Rockies would play at the Diamondbacks.

The Angels/Royals, Twins, Brewers, and Rockies would need to win 3 games against their opponents to advance.
The Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, and Diamondbacks only would need to win 2 games to advance.

To make these 8 teams opponents whole for a 162-game slate, the following teams (with their originally-scheduled opponents in parenthesis) would meet that Friday-Sunday.
The Tigers (MIN) would play the Blue Jays (NYY).
The Reds (CHC) would play the Cardinals (MIL).
With a Royals win...
...The Dodgers (COL) would play the Astros (BOS).
With an Angels win...
...The Astros (BOS) would play the Royals (ARI).
...The Dodgers (COL) would play the Mariners (LAA).