Sentences with phrase «of wild card teams»

None of the wild card teams have any value at either book.

At -700 odds, the implied probability of no Wild Card team reaching the NFL championship game is 87.5 %.

Not exact matches

Wild Card weekend is always one of the best weekends of the NFL season and this year's slate brings with it some fairly unpredictable games and teams.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

If there's one team that knows it shouldn't settle for the horrors of the Wild Card Game, it's the Pirates.

So mostly for my edification, and partially to keep you from doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing at your job, it's time to look at all of the teams still within spitting distance of the wild card in either league, starting with the American League.

The winner of the AFC duel between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills would get one team a leg up in the wild card race.

The Atlanta Falcons are the only team in the NFC that knows where they'll be when the playoffs begin, and there are still a group of teams in the hunt for Wild Card spots.

Seven of the eight MLB teams in playoff position last weekend were expected, more or less, to be there — they were no worse than cofavorites in their division or a top contender for the wild card when the season began.

This matchup marks the second time these teams have met in the postseason, the first of which was back in 1996 during the AFC Wild Card Playoffs with the Jaguars winning, 30 - 27.

So don't look at the AL second wild card as a bunch of teams with rosters that are three - quarters empty.

The Yankees also won Wednesday, defeating the Twins — the team that holds the second wild card as of this writing — keeping pace with the Sox.

Team Nelson took care of business and advanced in the Tourney as a Wild Card..

These teams are contending because of the second wild card, but they're also contending because of the weird sub-parity in the American League right now, and I'm not ready to pretend like they're truly excellent teams in a truly excellent steel cage match.

The second wild card race in the American League has been a procession of different teams getting their lips stuck in the escalator, and it's been unfathomably ugly.

So which team do you like — the Redskins, a wild - card entry, or the Giants, who unraveled the 49ers like a ball of string?

In the NL, you've got six teams — the Dodgers, Marlins, Cardinals, Mets, Rockies, and Pirates — within three games of a wild card spot.

The winner of each division faces off against a wild card team, while the second - and third - place teams face each other.

To make things that much more complicated, over in the AL, there are six teams bunched up like that in part because just.001 points of winning percentage separate the Orioles and Blue Jays in the AL East — the Red Sox hold the second wild card and are just two games back of the division lead themselves, and the only way the O's and Jays both end up with a wild card is if Boston leapfrogs them for the division.

A loss for either team could put them out of the playoff picture altogether in the NFC East and NFC Wild Card.

In the American League, six teams — the Orioles, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Tigers, Astros, and Mariners — are within five games of a wild card spot, and the Yankees are just 5.5 out.

The Blues, Blackhawks, Stars, and Predators are still better overall teams, and the Minnesota Wild leap Colorado in the final game of the season to earn the final wild card sWild leap Colorado in the final game of the season to earn the final wild card swild card spot.

Except there are six teams within three games of that final wild card spot.

Presumably most of us have watched enough baseball to know that a team's fortunes can turn on a dime and injuries are the biggest wild card for all the teams.

Four more NFL teams know their draft positioning following this past weekend's round of Wild Card action.

We won't get a six - way tie for one wild card or anything, but the more teams who are close to a tie now, the greater the chances of having at least one tie to deal with come Oct. 2.

This could be the season of five 84 - 78 teams with a round - robin, best - of - 17 playoff to sort through who wins the division and who wins the wild cards.

Miami already got swept by both the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills this season and have almost no hope of leapfrogging either team for a wild card spot.

The problem is that the team Stanton is coming back to is in a far different situation than the one he left: On August 14, the day they lost Stanton, the Marlins were 61 - 56 and a half - game out of a wild card spot.

The 11 previous teams coming off a minimum of 98 losses in the wild - card era improved by an average of eight games.

Their schedule the rest of the way is made up — with one three - game exception against the Rays — of teams chasing them for the AL East crown or a wild card spot.

The better of the two Wild Card teams will face the lesser of the two No. 1 seeds, while the lesser Wild Card team will face the better No. 1 seed.

The top two teams in each conference who don't finish in the top three of their division will take the Wild Card spots.

Every year for 12 straight years, and for 22 of the 23 seasons since the adoption of the Wild Card, the playoffs have included at least one of these teams I call Turnaround Teams: losers one year to playoffs the teams I call Turnaround Teams: losers one year to playoffs the Teams: losers one year to playoffs the next.

A new manager: Forty percent of Turnaround Teams in the wild card era (20 of 50) changed managers before or during the season.

The Rangers are just 4 1/2 games out of the second wild card, although they're behind two teams in their own division, and they're five games under.500.

The NFL is voting in March on whether to include another two wild card teams, and the added games could potentially include one on the Monday night of the College Football Playoff Championship.

All three of the teams rallying for the second NL Wild Card slot won, which leaves them exactly where they stood a day ago.

An average team would have won at least half of those and made a wild card spot.

Instead, we'll have the two wild cards with the inferior records face off in Baseball Thunderdome, and the winner of that single game will go on to face the wild card team that had the bye in a three - game series.

It's possible the Yankees are now paying the price of that bullpen game, as wild card teams sometimes do.

This little break of one day could also help the wild card team with the best record reshuffle their rotation around a bit in order to set themselves up well for the three - game Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason chwild card team with the best record reshuffle their rotation around a bit in order to set themselves up well for the three - game Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason chcard team with the best record reshuffle their rotation around a bit in order to set themselves up well for the three - game Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason chWild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason chCard Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason chaos.

The Giants of 1997 and 2003 proved that divisions, six division winners, and making four wild card teams have a steel cage match to get into the real postseason was only fair.

In each league, four wild card teams are seeded, with No. 1 playing No. 4 and No. 2 playing No. 3 in a best - of - three series, with the first two games at the site of the team with home - field advantage.

Since 1990, nine teams have broken playoff droughts of 10 - plus years: Two are the Rams and Bills this season, and the seven other teams were all eliminated in either the wild card or divisional round of the playoffs.

It seems like a lot, but what can I say, the Wild Card Games are kind of exciting, and this ensures that the top teams all make the postseason.

But San Francisco 49ers special teams coach Bruce DeHaven was relieved to be making the five - hour flight from Atlanta to Northern California on Sunday night because it would keep him far from the national telecast of the Buffalo Bills - Tennessee Titans game, a rematch between the teams that had played in the Music City Miracle wild - card playoff game last January.

Or, maybe the Rays will add a little on the margins, say they tried, complain about the economics of baseball, and the AL East will once again be dominated by the Yankees and Red Sox while teams that actually bothered to improve will comfortably control the wild card race all year long.

An eight - team playoff with automatic bids for each Power 5 champ and the highest - ranked Group of Five champ plus two wild cards would be a lot of fun.

Consider this: After the last Rockies victory, on June 20, the Cubs were 36 - 34, and standing atop the heap of NL teams waiting for a wild card spot.