Sentences with phrase «team division playoffs»

So why were the Crimson players packing for Thanksgiving vacation and not for a trip to the 16 - team division playoffs?

Not exact matches

This weekend event was organized for the winning teams from the Lower Mainland League, South Island League and Regional Interior Team Tennis Playoffs (for Division 2 (3.5 - 4.0) and 4 (3.0 - 3.5) players).

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.

It also means that a team that was Division III, say, could wind up in the Division II playoffs.

This season, Shelton has the Spartans sporting a 20 - 5 record as the playoffs near and Damien is on the fringe of the eight - team Open Division field.

I semifinalists that were ranked by Cal - Hi Sports, the Wildcats were the highest at No. 16 because they are the best one - girl team in the state still alive in the top playoff divisions.

The section added a rule that any team that plays in the Open Division must be Division I the next year, and unless they miss the playoffs entirely, the year after as well.

They became the first to do it in their inaugural season, obviously, because no first - year expansion team in this era had made the playoffs, period, before Vegas won the Pacific Division with a 109 - point season.

They end the season against Team Lalez with a potential Division title on the line and more importantly a higher seed come Playoff Time.

So if 65 teams qualify for the playoffs, then there will be 17 teams in the Division I bracket, with one out - bracket game to start the tournament.

Both teams have playoff aspirations and have to navigate difficult divisions in order to get there.

Two teams are guaranteed to be Division I this year and next, as long as they qualify for the playoffs.

A loss in Week 14 for Team Purimetla could be devastating in terms of playoff seeding down the road, while a victory could put them in first place in the West division.

If you give them each team's 9th best player, they shouldn't finish 1st in a division and sweep a first round of playoffs.

Four of the five AL playoff teams are set, with New York and Boston joined by a pair of division winners, the Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros.

But the Big 12 decided to add a conference championship game for next season, even though it only has 10 teams and no divisions, in part because the conference believed it would improve its chances of making the Playoff.

For a three team tie it's 1) Division winner 2) Best winning % among all teams tied (I assume this means head to head to head) 3) Winning % w / in division, if all teams in same division 4) Winning % conference games 5) Winning % v. Playoff teams own conference 6) Highest point diffeDivision winner 2) Best winning % among all teams tied (I assume this means head to head to head) 3) Winning % w / in division, if all teams in same division 4) Winning % conference games 5) Winning % v. Playoff teams own conference 6) Highest point diffedivision, if all teams in same division 4) Winning % conference games 5) Winning % v. Playoff teams own conference 6) Highest point diffedivision 4) Winning % conference games 5) Winning % v. Playoff teams own conference 6) Highest point differential.

Atlanta has the toughest challenge, as it will face a Carolina team still battling for a division title and the chance to bring a playoff game to Charlotte next week.

Brock Osweiler's team has led the division since Week 1, but their winning record looks more like a mirage than the foundation for a playoff run.

Of the Tigers, Reds and Blue Jays — the year's most unexpected division titlecontenders — Detroit has the best chance of making the playoffs because of itsyoung and talented pitching staff, which at week's end led the majors in ERAeven though 38.7 % of the team's innings had been logged by hurlers under age 25 (starters Jeremy Bonderman, Zach Miner and Justin Verlander, and setup man JoelZumaya).

Out of the blue, he gives this animated press conference and subsequently the team goes on a roll, wins the division, makes the playoffs and wins a playoff game at home.

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.

But they assume every other team from last year's playoffs and the division will be better than they were the year before, when the playoffs alone see an average 50 % turnover in teams from year to year.

Penguins 4 % Chance win Division 59 % Chance 2nd in Division 22 % Chance 3rd in Division 9 % Chance WC1 5 % Chance WC2 1 % Chance Last team out of playoffs

The top five teams in the Metropolitan Division are separated by just nine points with two and a half weeks remaining in the season — and they could all make the playoffs.

He isn't as good as Kirk but put a great team around him and he will be adequate to not quite make the playoffs or just scrape in in a weak division like Kirk has done the last 2 seasons.

Here is a glance at his run from 1982 - 2001 at Miramonte - Orinda: RECORD: 154 -62-2 in 20 seasons NCS TITLES: 5 (1983, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001; team was 13 - 0 in ’98 and» 01) NCS PLAYOFF APPEARANCES: 10 consecutive (1992 - 2001), 13 total DIVISION - I QUARTERBACKS: 13

Both teams will be heavy favorites in their final two DVAL games and are all but certain to be on a collision course in the North Coast Section Division II playoffs «'' where the championship might very well determine a California Interscholastic Federation Northern Regional bowl berth.

It's not quite the same as the CIF Open Division in some state playoffs, but it does guarantee that just about every top - ranked CIFSS softball team is going to be in the Division I bracket.

As of March 31st, seven teams have clinched playoff berths and four teams have clinched their division title.

This is the first season where teams who clinched their division do not earn an automatic playoff bid, however, winning the division is the second criterion in deciding a tiebreaker after head - to - head record.

Could Michigan State beat the Pac - 12's two division champs and only lose to the No. 1 team, all without making the Playoff?

«We're not world - beaters, but we have a good high school football team,» coach Ernie Cooper said after Granite Bay rolled past Chavez - Stockton 63 - 14 in a Sac - Joaquin Section Division I playoff opener.

Though all the attention in the coming weeks will be rightfully focused on the race for state championships, it would be unfair to ignore the quality Division VI girls teams, which will conclude their season at the end of the NorCal playoffs.

Playoffs would be top team in each division, plus 2 Wild Cards from each League.

«I got rid of the ghosts of the postseason when we beat the Braves,» Bonds said, alluding to the Division Series win over the team that had knocked his club out of the playoffs three times.

Some people call this program the Ranger Plan, in honor of the New York Rangers, who finished fourth in the Patrick Division and missed the playoffs last season, even though they had more points than the second place team in the Sweathog — er, Smythe — Division.

What many NorCal fans don't realize, the Southern Section has a long history of moving teams into a stronger playoff division once they've proven dominant at the lower playoff division.

Well, now they just elevate a team within its division through trade and watch as that team goes one and done in the playoffs.

Saco has since led the CIF in adding regional playoff games to qualify the section championship teams for the state bowl games, and also added an Open Division — for championship games between the state's top NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of division and enrollment — in both football and basDivision — for championship games between the state's top NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of division and enrollment — in both football and basdivision and enrollment — in both football and basketball.

NFL — We recently posted the odds for each NFL team to make / miss the playoffs, as well as odds for each division winner:

-- Playoff odds have been released for all 32 NFL teams, and one division projects to get three teams into the postseason this year.

NFL — Odds to make the playoffs have been released for each team, and one division projects to get three teams in next season.

For some, it makes a lot more sense to bet a team to make the playoffs rather than winning the division outright.

«We had good spots in the game but against a team that's not in the playoffs and (if) we want to stay atop our division and the league we need the same effort we had against Toronto (on Monday) with the emotion and desperation and it just wasn't there tonight.»

The Patriot League, a Division I - AA nonscholarship conference modeled after the Ivy League, with a level of talent and academic rigor that's close to the Ivy's, began accepting football playoff bids in 1997, and its teams have gone 2 - 6 in the postseason.

The star running back is expected back from his torn ACL by the start of the season, but the contributors that lifted the team to the playoffs in his place are back, too, leaving the Chiefs loaded and ready to displace Denver as the division's perennial front - runner.

SHC more than held its own, going 18 - 9 and qualifying for the NorCal Open Division playoffs (note all nine of those losses came to teams that also played in the Open Division in postseason).

Both teams are in desperation mode with just three wins, but with no team in the division above.500, the playoffs remain in sight.

As a junior, Baker batted.386, scored 30 runs and stole a team - high 15 bases as Jesuit posted a 22 - 9 record and earned a Sac - Joaquin Section Division I playoff berth.