| rdfs:comment
| - Do you think the Flames will make the playoffs?
- The playoffs are a competition held after the end of the regular season. The best teams of the regular season meet the others in a system of successive rounds of direct elimination, not dissimilar to tournaments. Usually, series are played as a best-of format, a team needing to win two, three or four games to advance to the next round.
- Perfect answer! That rlealy gets to the heart of it!
- The playoffs, postseason, or finals of a sports league are a game, a series of games or a tournament played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be either a single-elimination system or one of several other different playoff formats.
|
| abstract
| - The playoffs, postseason, or finals of a sports league are a game, a series of games or a tournament played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be either a single-elimination system or one of several other different playoff formats. In the U.S. and Canada, the vast distances and consequent burdens on cross-country travel have led to regional groupings of teams, usually called divisions. Generally, during the regular season, teams play more games against opponents that are within their own grouping than those outside it. Since every team has not necessarily had a chance to prove itself against every other team, a playoff is necessary every season. Any team that wins its grouping is eligible to participate in the playoffs. As playoffs became more popular, they were expanded to allow teams that finished second or even lower in the grouping to participate. The term wild card refers to these teams. While they technically can refer to any team that does not finish first in its grouping, the term is most often used when the teams that qualify without finishing first in their group is quite low, such as in the NFL and MLB where only four teams out of 32 in the former and 30 in the latter qualify in this manner. In fact the term was first used when the number of teams qualifying as wild cards was even lower, when the wildcard was first invented by the NFL in 1970 and only two teams qualified as non first place finishers. MLB also had only two wildcards teams from its first year of having wildcards in 1995 until expanding to a four wildcard format beginning with the 2012 season. In England and Scotland playoffs are used in football to decide promotion for lower finishing teams, rather than to decide a champion in the way they are used in North America. In the Championship (the second tier of English football) teams finishing 3rd to 6th after the regular season compete to decide the final promotion spot to the Premier League.
- Do you think the Flames will make the playoffs?
- The playoffs are a competition held after the end of the regular season. The best teams of the regular season meet the others in a system of successive rounds of direct elimination, not dissimilar to tournaments. Usually, series are played as a best-of format, a team needing to win two, three or four games to advance to the next round.
- Perfect answer! That rlealy gets to the heart of it!
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)