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6, and 4 vs 5.
- In Week 1, the top two teams played the first leg of a two-legged match, and the remaining teams played one-off knockout matches.
- In Week 2, the top two teams played the second leg of their semifinal, and the two other surviving teams played a one-off match. The winner of the two-legged ma... | 38,700 |
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with the pairings being 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5.
- In Week 2, the winners of the Elimination Finals advance to Semi-Finals. The top team on the regular-season table, called the "premiers" by the A-League, plays the lowest-seeded survivor of the Elimination Finals, and the second-place team plays the other Eliminati... | 38,701 |
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playoffs have been held to determine the champion and tickets for the Champions League and Europa League. The six highest ranked teams play home-and-away matches against each other; a total of 10 matches each. The 6 participating teams start with the points accumulated during the regular competition divided by... | 38,702 |
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of 12 teams (details below). All points gained from the regular competition are lost. The two group winners play a final match to determine the winner of play-off 2. The winning team plays a final match against the fourth-ranked team (or fifth) for the last European ticket.
The play-off system has been critic... | 38,703 |
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for the teams.
Nonetheless, the higher number of matches takes an extra toll on teams and players. Besides play-offs, the Royal Belgian Football Association (KBVB) also introduced Christmas football in order to complete the extra matches in time. This posed some problems because a few matches had to be cancel... | 38,704 |
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Championship Round teams is now regular-season position.
- Accumulated yellow cards from the regular season are erased, although suspensions will continue to carry over. During the playoffs, three accumulated yellow cards will result in a suspension, as opposed to five during the regular season.
From 1974 th... | 38,705 |
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playoffs were introduced in 1974 and were part of the Second Division, to determine which team was promoted to the highest level together with the division champions. From the 2005–06 season on, only one team was relegated directly from the First Division, with the 17th team taking part in the playoff. As a re... | 38,706 |
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total of 12 teams—nine from First Division A, and three from First Division B (the renamed Second Division). The First Division A qualifiers will be those finishing between 7th and 15th on the regular-season table. The First Division B qualifiers will be the top three teams from that league's regular-season ta... | 38,707 |
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on available European slots) for the final Europa League place.
## Brazil.
In Brazil, the Copa do Brasil, the second most prestigious country-wide competition, is contested in pure "knockout" format since its inception in 1989. While the top two tiers in the Brazilian League – Série A and Série B – are conte... | 38,708 |
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playoff", with the latter split into two 4-team groups. Each playoff begins with teams carrying over all goals and statistics from the home-and-away season.
Each team in the championship playoff plays the others home and away one additional time. At the end of this stage:
- The top team is declared league ch... | 38,709 |
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earns an automatic Europa League place) is in the top three of the playoff, the fourth-place team will take its place.
Each group within the qualifying playoff also plays home and away within its group; after this stage, teams enter another level of playoffs depending on their positions in the group.
The top... | 38,710 |
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from the championship playoff, with the winner claiming the final Europa League place.
The bottom two teams from each group begin a series of relegation playoffs. The series starts with a knockout playoff that also consists entirely of two-legged matches. The winner of the playoff remains in the First League ... | 38,711 |
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of Match 1 above plays the second-place team from the Second League, with the winner also playing in the next season's First League.
## Dominican Republic.
With the creation of the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol in 2014 to replace the Primera División de Republica Dominicana, it introduced a playoff system to det... | 38,712 |
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number of mid-table clubs with nothing to play for at the end of the season. The Football Conference, now known as the National League, introduced play-offs in 2002 after the Football League agreed to a two-club exchange with the Conference.
The top two teams in the EFL Championship and in EFL League One are ... | 38,713 |
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home advantage in the second leg. The away goals rule does not apply for the semi-finals. The Football League play-off finals were originally played in two legs, at both teams' home grounds, but were later changed to one-off affairs, which are played at Wembley Stadium in London.
Teams are also promoted using... | 38,714 |
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replacing the current play-off system with one involving six clubs from each division and replacing the two-legged ties with one-off matches. If adopted, the two higher-placed clubs in the play-offs would have enjoyed first-round byes and home advantage in the semi-finals. It was a controversial proposal — som... | 38,715 |
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in the league. However, a championship play-off would be held if the top two teams were tied for points, goal difference and goals scored in both their overall league record; to date, this has never happened. A play-off would also be scheduled if two teams are tied as above for a position affecting promotion, ... | 38,716 |
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League places reserved for the cup winner. The playoff currently takes the form of a home-and-away mini-league involving the second- through fifth-place teams, under the following conditions:
- The fifth-place team starts the playoffs at 0 points.
- The remaining teams start with a number of "bonus points" d... | 38,717 |
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the Europa League at different points depending on their playoff finishes; the last-placed team is entirely out of European competition. However, if the cup winner finished in a playoff spot (as happened in 2010–11), "or" the league champion also won the cup, and the losing cup finalist finished in a playoff s... | 38,718 |
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a playoff to determine who wins the third promotion place, as long as fewer than 10 points separate the third and fourth-placed teams (which often occurs).
Like the English playoffs, the Italian playoffs employ two-legged semi-finals, with the higher finisher in the league table earning home advantage in the ... | 38,719 |
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standings wins.
In 2003–04, Italy's football league used a two-legged test match to determine one spot in the top level of its system, Serie A. Some leagues in continental Europe combine automatic promotion/relegation with test matches. For example, in the Netherlands, only one club is automatically relegated... | 38,720 |
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from 2004 to 2008. The Promotion/Relegation Series concept dates as far back as 1965 and the first season of the Japan Soccer League.
The Japan Football League, the current Japanese third division, uses the Promotion/Relegation Series only when the number of clubs in the league needs to be filled with clubs f... | 38,721 |
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of two annual tournaments, every team plays every other team in the league once (17 games), after which the top eight teams advance to the "Liguilla".
In the Liguilla, all rounds are home-and-away. Teams are drawn so the best team plays the worst, the second-best plays the second-worst, and so on. After one r... | 38,722 |
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total for the previous six tournaments (three years, counting only Liga MX games) is relegated to Ascenso MX to be replaced by that league's champion (if eligible).
## Netherlands.
In the Netherlands, a playoff was introduced in season 2005–2006. It is used to determine which teams from the Eredivisie qualif... | 38,723 |
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in 2008–09, the format was changed yet again. The champion goes directly to the Champions League; the runner-up enters the second qualification round of the CL; the number three enters the fourth (and last) qualification round of the UEFA Europa League (EL; the new name of the UEFA Cup from 2009–10 onward) and... | 38,724 |
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Scotland.
The Scottish Football League (SFL) experimented briefly with test matches in 1995–96 and 1996–97, contested between the second-bottom team of the Premier Division and the second-placed team of the First Division.
After the Scottish Premier League (SPL) and SFL merged in 2013 to form the Scottish Pr... | 38,725 |
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Premiership entry criteria. The second-, third- and fourth-placed teams from the Championship qualify for a play-off consisting of two-legged ties, with the second-placed team receiving a bye to play the winner of the teams that finished third and fourth. The winner of this play-off then faces the second-botto... | 38,726 |
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and Third Division, respectively). In the Championship/League One and League One/League Two, while the champions are automatically promoted and the bottom team relegated, there are play-offs of the second-bottom teams against the second-, third- and fourth-placed teams from the division below. Home and away ti... | 38,727 |
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in a two-legged playoff. The winner then enters a two-legged playoff against the bottom team from Scottish League Two, with the winner of that tie either remaining in or promoted to League Two.
Long before the SPL era, two situations arose in which the top two teams in the table had to share the title as neit... | 38,728 |
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the clubs chose not to play off. In 1915 goal average was finally instituted.
## Spain.
For the 2010/11 season, the Segunda División experimented with promotion playoffs between the 3rd to 6th placed teams, similar to the rules in the English and Italian systems. However, due to reserve teams being allowed t... | 38,729 |
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tournament between the 4 group winners. The winners of each match are promoted and then play a final for the tier title.
- After the tier final takes place, the teams who finished 2nd in each of the 4 groups play the teams who finished 4th, whereas the teams who finished third play each other. The 6 winners, ... | 38,730 |
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the reserve team is automatically disqualified from competing and relegated to Tercera División.
Previously a play off system had been used in which the teams finishing 3rd and 4th from last in La Liga had played off against the teams finishing 3rd and 4th in the Segunda División. This system had been introdu... | 38,731 |
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12 teams in total. In 2019, seven teams per conference qualify; 14 teams in total.
In the first round of the postseason knockout tournament, the fourth-place team in each conference hosts the fifth-place team from the same conference in a one-off match, with the winner advancing to the Conference Semifinals. ... | 38,732 |
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Semifinal series, with the lower seeded team hosting the first game. From the 2015 season the top seed plays the lowest remaining seed, and the 2nd plays the next-lowest seed in the Conference Semifinals.
The team that scores the most goals in the home-and-away series advances to the Conference Championship, ... | 38,733 |
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Championship hosts the first leg.
The winner of each conference will play for the MLS Cup, the league championship. Since 2012, the MLS Cup is hosted by the conference champion with the most table points during the regular season.
In the case of ties after regulation in the First Round and MLS Cup, 30 minute... | 38,734 |
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a four-team stepladder tournament consisting of one-off knockout matches. The third seed hosted the fourth seed in the first round. The winner of that game advanced to the "Super Semifinal", hosted by the second seed. The Super Semifinal winner traveled to the top seed for the championship game. The replacemen... | 38,735 |
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league, between four and eight teams (depending on league size) qualify for the finals based on the league ladder at the end of the season. Australian rules football leagues employ finals systems which act as a combination between a single elimination tournament for lower-ranked teams and a double elimination ... | 38,736 |
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1931–1999, variants of the McIntyre System were used to accommodate four, five, six and eight teams, and prior to 1930, six different finals systems were used.
In most other leagues, from state-level leagues such as the South Australian National Football League and West Australian Football League, down to loc... | 38,737 |
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Australian National Football League introduced finals in 1898, and other leagues soon followed.
Prior to 1897, the premiership was generally awarded to the team with the best overall win-loss record at the end of the season. If two teams had finished with equal records, a playoff match for the premiership was... | 38,738 |
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team that finished in second place during the regular season, and the winner of that round faces the team that finished in first place for the championship in the Korean Series. This type of format is known as the stepladder playoff.
## Japan.
Before 1950 the original Japanese Baseball League had been a sing... | 38,739 |
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was applied with a 5-game playoff between the winning teams from both halves of season (unless a team won both of the halves so that they did not need to play such a game). The second time was between 2004–2006, when the top three teams played a two-staged stepladder knockout (3 games in the first stage and 5 ... | 38,740 |
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system convinced the Central League to consider a similar approach. In 2007, a new playoff system, named the "Climax Series", was introduced to both professional leagues in NPB to decide the teams that would compete for the Japan Series. The Climax Series basically applied the rule of the playoff system in the... | 38,741 |
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regular season but sweeping the Hanshin Tigers and the League Champion Yomiuri Giants in the Central League to win a place in the Japan Series; they subsequently defeated the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to claim their first Japan Series in 52 years.
In 2008, the format of Climax Series will have a slight cha... | 38,742 |
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held after the conclusion of the regular season. Since the , it has consisted of a first round single-elimination Wild Card Game between the two wild-card teams in each league, a best-of-five second round series called the Division Series, and two rounds of best-of-seven series for the League Championship Seri... | 38,743 |
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"part of the regular season" and can be called a "pennant playoff". However, the plural term "playoffs" is conventionally used by fans and media to refer to baseball's postseason tournament, not including the World Series.
MLB is the oldest of the major American professional sports, dating back to the 1870s. ... | 38,744 |
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League Baseball conduct playoffs after their regular season to determine champions. Most leagues at the Triple-A, Double-A, and Class A Advanced classification levels include four qualifying teams which compete in two best-of-five rounds: semi-finals and finals. Most Class A, Class A Short Season, and Rookie L... | 38,745 |
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the first half-season and the winners of the second half-season are eligible to play in the playoffs, but if the best overall team have not won either half season then they qualify into a wild card series against the weaker half-season winner, with the winner of this advancing into the Taiwan Series to face th... | 38,746 |
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halves of the season will begin the Taiwan Series with an automatic one game advantage.
# Basketball.
## National Basketball Association.
The present organization known as the National Basketball Association, then called the BAA (Basketball Association of America), had its inaugural season in 1946–47. Teams... | 38,747 |
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conference. In the 2002–03 season, the first-round series were expanded from best-of-5 to best-of-7; all other series have always been best-of-7. In all series, home games alternate between the two teams in a 2-2-1-1-1 format.
The 2-3-2 finals format was adopted from the 1985 Finals to 2013, copying the forma... | 38,748 |
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Eastern and Western playoffs were on an alternate-home basis except for series when distance made the 2-2-1-1-1 format more practical. Since 2014, the NBA Finals restored the original format.
Teams are seeded according to their regular-season record. Through the 2014–15 season, the three division champions an... | 38,749 |
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playoff berths for division champions; the top eight teams overall in each conference now qualify for the playoffs, regardless of divisional alignment.
## Elsewhere.
Top flight basketball leagues elsewhere also employ a playoff system mimicking the NBA's. However, most leagues are not divided into divisions ... | 38,750 |
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at a predetermined venue, having the home court advantage.
Aside from the playoffs, some leagues also have a knockout tournament akin to the FA Cup running in parallel to the regular season. These are not considered playoffs.
In the EuroLeague, after the regular season plays a best-of-5 playoffs in a 2–2–1 f... | 38,751 |
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SEC), hold their tournaments at a predetermined venue, with all conference teams participating (unless barred due to NCAA sanctions). A few conferences hold early rounds at campus sites and later rounds at a predetermined site. For example, the Mid-American Conference holds its first-round games at campus site... | 38,752 |
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of conferences do not invite all of their teams to the conference tournament, with one example being the Ivy League, in which only four of the eight members advance to the tournament (which is at a predetermined site). In many such tournaments, higher seeds are afforded byes. The winners, and some losers which... | 38,753 |
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games, and the league semifinals & Finals are best-of-5 on a 2-2-1 basis.
# Canadian football.
In the Canadian Football League, the playoffs begin in November. After the regular season, the top team from each division has an automatic home game berth in the Division Final, and a bye week during the Division ... | 38,754 |
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the Grey Cup, so far only two crossover teams have won the divisional semifinal game. The winners of each Division's Semifinal game then travel to play the first place teams in the Division Finals. Since 2005, the Division Semifinals and Division Finals have been sponsored by Scotiabank and are branded as the ... | 38,755 |
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team to ever win the divisional semifinal game.
# Hockey.
## National Hockey League.
The National Hockey League playoff system is an elimination tournament competition for the Stanley Cup, consisting of four rounds of best-of-seven series. The first three rounds determine which team from each conference wil... | 38,756 |
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division winner plays the top wild-card seed (wild-card teams, who are de facto 4th seeds, may cross over to another division within the conference). In the Conference Semifinals, the four remaining teams in the conference face each other. In the third round, the Conference Finals, the two surviving teams play... | 38,757 |
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"if necessary").
## Kontinental Hockey League.
The Kontinental Hockey League, based in Russia and including teams from several nearby countries, operates a playoff system similar to that of the NHL, also consisting of four rounds of single-elimination best-of-seven series. The first three rounds determine wh... | 38,758 |
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NHL, divisional alignment plays no added role in playoff seeding—all teams are seeded solely within their conference. Playoff pairings are based on seeding number within the conference (# 1 vs. # 8, # 2 vs. # 7, # 3 vs. # 6, and # 4 vs. # 5). The division winner with the best record in the conference plays the... | 38,759 |
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playing the lowest remaining seed, and the two other first-round survivors playing one another. In the third round, the Conference Finals, the two surviving teams play each other, with the conference champions proceeding to the Gagarin Cup Finals.
For the first two rounds, the higher-seeded team has home-ice ... | 38,760 |
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the draw is based on the finishing position of teams in the league. Of the 10 teams which compete, the top 8 qualify for the playoffs. The first round (the quarter-finals) are played over two legs (home and away) where the team who finished in 1st place in the regular season plays the team which finished 8th, ... | 38,761 |
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earlier on the Sunday between the losing teams from the semi-finals. Unlike in the NHL, the winners of the Elite League playoffs are not considered to be the league champions for that season (that title goes to the team which finishes in first place in the league), rather the playoffs are considered to be a se... | 38,762 |
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(currently known as the Xfinity Series and the Camping World Truck Series) have since adopted similar systems. One unique feature of the NASCAR playoffs is that the non-qualifying drivers continue to compete alongside the playoff drivers: the qualifying drivers merely have their championship points reset one o... | 38,763 |
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after missing the first 11 races of the season due to injury; 3 other drivers drove the #18 car during his absence. Because of the way the playoffs were structured that year, however, both he and his #18 team won their respective championships with 5043 points. There have been two cases where a playoff driver ... | 38,764 |
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top-10 finish at Kansas Speedway. In that case, Smith's 43 additional championship points on top of Earnhardt's 2,245 were not enough to pull the #88 team out of 12th place out of 12 playoff contenders.
In the original version of the Chase (2004–2006), following the 26th race of the season, all drivers in the... | 38,765 |
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through 10th place with 5,005 points.
The first major change to the Chase was announced by NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France on January 22, 2007. After 26 races, the top 12 drivers advanced to contend for the points championship and points were reset to 5000. Each driver within the top 12 received an addit... | 38,766 |
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for leading a single lap.
Brian France explained why NASCAR made the changes to the chase:
"The adjustments taken [Monday] put a greater emphasis on winning races. Winning is what this sport is all about. Nobody likes to see drivers content to finish in the top 10. We want our sport -- especially during the ... | 38,767 |
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changed, as well as the number of base points that drivers received at the points reset.
Under this system. only the top 10 drivers in points automatically qualified for the Chase. They were joined by two "wild card" qualifiers, specifically the two drivers ranked from 11th through 20th in points who had the ... | 38,768 |
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points for each race win, while the wild card qualifiers received no bonus.
On January 30, 2014, even more radical changes to the Chase were announced; these took effect for the 2014 season:
- The number of drivers qualifying for the Chase was expanded to 16, with this group officially called the NASCAR Spri... | 38,769 |
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each of the first three rounds, the four Chase Grid drivers with the fewest season points are eliminated from the Grid and championship contention. Any driver on the Chase Grid who wins a race in the first three rounds automatically advances to the next round. Also, all drivers eliminated from the Chase have t... | 38,770 |
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Round (races 33–35)
- Begins with eight drivers, each with 4,000 points.
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship (final race)
- The last four drivers in contention for the season title start the race at 5,000 points, with the highest finisher in the race winning the Cup Series title.
The Chase for the Sprint Cup ... | 38,771 |
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week in, week out, a champion emerges. In stick-and-ball sports, every team has a different schedule, so head-to-head series are necessary to determine a champion. That does not apply to auto racing."
NASCAR extended the Chase format to its other two national touring series, the Xfinity Series and Camping Wor... | 38,772 |
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the first three rounds of the Cup Series Chase).
- The Xfinity Series Dash 4 Cash, consisting of four short events with the winners receiving cash prizes, has been incorporated into that series' Chase. A driver who wins two Dash 4 Cash events is considered as having one regular race win, which essentially qua... | 38,773 |
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Series. The Truck Series Chase eliminates only two drivers at the end of its first two rounds. All formats end with four drivers eligible to win the season title entering the season's last race.
- The rounds of the Chase now have a standard name across all series. The rounds leading up to the final race are n... | 38,774 |
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to decide the premiers of the National Rugby League (NRL) in Australasia, where they are known as "finals" (also as "semi finals" or "semis") – as in Australian rules football, the participating teams only come from within a single division, and the tournament is staged as single matches rather than a series. ... | 38,775 |
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qualification and play-offs are no longer held.
## Super League.
The Super League rugby league competition has used a play-off system to decide its champion since 1998. The original play-off format featured the top five highest-ranked teams after the regular season rounds. Starting in 2002, the play-offs add... | 38,776 |
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Play Off 1: 5th vs 8th "(loser goes out)"
- Elimination Play Off 2: 6th vs 7th "(loser goes out)"
Week Two
- Preliminary Semi Final 1: QPO 1 Loser vs EPO 1 Winner
- Preliminary Semi Final 2: QPO 2 Loser vs EPO 2 Winner
Week Three
- Qualifying Semi Final 1: QPO 1 Winner vs PSF 1 "or" PSF 2 Winner *
- Qua... | 38,777 |
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a home-and-away season of 22 matches, the top eight clubs in Super League now enter a single round-robin mini-league known as the Super 8s, with the top four teams after that stage entering a knockout play-off to determine the champion. The four bottom teams in Super League at the end of the home-and-away seas... | 38,778 |
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in Super League in the following season.
## Other leagues.
The two tiers directly below Super League, the Championship and League 1 (the latter of which was known as Championship 1 from 2009–2014)—formerly the National Leagues until the 2009 addition of a French club to the previously all-British competition... | 38,779 |
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to Super League. The top six system involved the following:
Week One
- Elimination Semi-final A: 3rd vs 6th (4th vs 7th in Championship 1)
- Elimination Semi-final B: 4th vs 5th (5th vs 6th in Championship 1)
Week Two
- Elimination Final: Winners of Elimination Semi-final A vs Winners of Elimination Semi-... | 38,780 |
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Upon the end of the home-and-away season, the clubs will split into three leagues, with two of them including Championship clubs. The Super 8s will feature the top eight Super League sides. The second league, The Qualifiers, will include the bottom four clubs from Super League and the top four from the Champio... | 38,781 |
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compete for the Championship Shield, with the top four teams after the round-robin phase entering a knockout playoff for the Shield. The bottom two teams are relegated to League 1.
League 1 currently conducts a 15-match, single round-robin regular season. At that time, the league splits in two. The top eight ... | 38,782 |
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a one-off match for the League 1 Shield.
# Rugby union.
## England.
### Premiership.
In the Gallagher Premiership, the top four qualify for the play-offs, where they are not referred to by that name. The tournament is a Shaughnessy playoff: the team that finished first after the league stage plays the team... | 38,783 |
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unlike the Premiership, the Championship officially used the term "play-offs". At the end of the league stage, top teams advanced to a series of promotion play-offs. From the first season of the Championship in 2009–10 to 2011–12, the top eight teams advanced; from 2012–13 through to 2016–17, the top four adva... | 38,784 |
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in 2011, they became two-legged. The top team in each pool played the second-place team from the other group in the semi-finals; the winners advanced to the two-legged final, where the ultimate winner earned promotion to the Premiership (assuming that the team met the minimum criteria for promotion).
In the f... | 38,785 |
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(Points were earned using the standard bonus points system.)
The relegation play-offs, like the first stage of the promotion play-offs, were conducted as a home-and-away league, with the bottom team at the end of league play relegated to National League 1. As with the 2010 promotion play-offs, that season's r... | 38,786 |
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two-legged semi-finals followed by a two-legged final. At the other end of the table, the bottom club is now automatically relegated.
Effective with the 2017–18 season, the promotion play-offs were scrapped for a minimum of three seasons, to be replaced with automatic promotion for the club finishing atop the... | 38,787 |
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the third- through sixth-place teams, bracketed so that 3 hosts 6 and 4 hosts 5. The winners then advance to face the top two teams in the semifinals, which are held at nominally neutral sites (a traditional feature in the French playoffs)—although in the 2011–12 season, the semifinals were held at Stadium de ... | 38,788 |
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identical to that of the English Premiership with the exception of neutral sites for the semifinals.
Beginning in 2017–18, only the bottom club is automatically relegated to Rugby Pro D2. The second-from-bottom Top 14 side plays a one-off match against the runner-up of the Pro D2 playoffs for the final place ... | 38,789 |
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of two teams promoted to the next season's Top 14, with the regular-season champions earning automatic promotion. Under this system, the promotion semifinals were held at the home fields of the second- and third-place teams, and the promotion final was held at a neutral site.
## Pro14.
The Pro14, originally ... | 38,790 |
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its regular home ground of Ravenhill for that reason (the ground was later expanded to meet the requirement). The league changed to using a predetermined site for its championship final in 2014–15.
With the addition of two South African sides in 2017–18, the league split into two conferences and expanded its ... | 38,791 |
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(formerly Air New Zealand Cup and ITM Cup) and the nominally amateur Heartland Championship — use a playoff system to determine their champions, although the term "playoff" is also not used in New Zealand, with "finals" used instead.
### Air New Zealand/ITM/Mitre 10 Cup.
In the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup, the ... | 38,792 |
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of each pool taking up one of the final two finals slots. The seventh seed was the repechage winner with the better record, and the eighth seed was the other repechage winner.
From 2007 onward, the former Rounds One and Two were collapsed into a single pool phase of play in which all teams participated. In 20... | 38,793 |
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in 2011, the NZRU split the ITM Cup into two seven-team leagues, the top-level Premiership and second-level Championship, and instituted promotion and relegation in the ITM Cup (a feature of the country's former National Provincial Championship). The competition was renamed the Mitre 10 Cup in 2016.
The playo... | 38,794 |
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winners of these semifinals qualify for the Cup Final (2006–10) or Premiership/Championship Final (2011–), held at the home ground of the higher surviving seed. From 2011 onward, the winner of the Championship Final is promoted to the Premiership, replacing that league's bottom team.
Because the 2011 season r... | 38,795 |
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prestigious Meads Cup and the Lochore Cup. The 12 Heartland Championship teams are divided into two pools for round-robin play in Round One, with the top three in each pool advancing to the Meads Cup and the bottom three dropping to the Lochore Cup.
Round Two in both the Meads and Lochore Cups is an abbreviat... | 38,796 |
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their respective cup final, hosted by the higher surviving seed.
## Super Rugby.
Throughout the pre-2011 history of Super Rugby—both in the Super 12 and Super 14 formats—the competition's organiser, SANZAR (renamed SANZAAR in 2016), held a Shaughnessy playoff involving the top four teams. The top two teams o... | 38,797 |
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the three non-winners with the most competition points without regard to conference affiliation.
The top two conference winners received a first-round bye; each played at home against the winner of an elimination match involving two of the four other playoff teams. As in the previous system, the final was hos... | 38,798 |
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(Australia, New Zealand, Africa 1, Africa 2). Conference winners received the top four playoff seeds, and were joined by the top three remaining Australasian teams and the top remaining team from the African group on table points, again without regard to conference affiliation. The higher seed still hosted all... | 38,799 |
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