Sentences with phrase «wild card team»

So, I'll modify my format to include four wild card teams in each.

How many Wild Card teams will win this weekend?

There were 4 pools, with each pool having a winner and then 2 Wild Card Teams also advancing.

Again, Wild Card Teams get 3 points for advancing..

The other four playoff spots go to the two wild card teams in each conference.

Basically, Team Harris, a Division Winner has the same record as Wild Card Team Lalez..

Other innovations have included the introduction of Wild Card teams, modifications to overtime rules and the frenzy free agency creates every March when the new season begins.

In the National League, the Nationals, Cardinals and Dodgers project as the division winners with the NL Central producing two Wild Card teams with the Pirates and Cubs.

That set up the Final 4 — Pool A Winner Team Trifecta Grill took down Pool B Wild Card Team Moccio's to head to the Tourney Final.

With some question marks surrounding other Wild Card teams in the AFC, I wouldn't be shocked to see three AFC West teams in the postseason.

That not only locked in the New York Yankees as the first Wild Card team — New York will host the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night — but cemented Houston as the No. 2 seed in the AL behind the Cleveland Indians.

The Diamondbacks have been the significantly stronger wild card team in the National League for some time, but this hasn't always been reflected in their record or in the standings.

Teams that win their Pools get 7 points in the Standings, while Wild Card teams earn 3 points.

The year before last year, the AFC wild card teams were 12 - 4 and 10 - 6, while 9 - 7 Detroit got into the playoffs as a wild card in the NFC, so it's not like it's impossible that the NFC will regress and not have five or six powerhouse teams like it did last year.

This team is a playoff wild card team IMHO, because we're going to continue to rely on being «fun» and «lucky».

All of that has made it real easy to miss what else is going on in the National League West: Both NL wild card teams are from that division, and they aren't just barely clinging to life over.500 like some of their American League cousins in the race are.

They had Team Harris (Norton's) in their group as well as wild card Team Wilneff (Illini Tower).

Team Watts was actually seeded # 1 due to their margins of victory in the group stage but they were up ended by wild card Team Apuli.

The top seeds in both conferences play against the lowest wild card teams in the first round, and the other division winners face off against the other wild card qualifiers.

Personally, I think earning the first Wild Card spot and losing the play - in game qualifies since this team would have made the playoffs before 2012, but the second wild card team needs to win the Play in Game in order to say they «made the playoffs.»

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The top three teams in each division — Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central, Pacific — earned automatic postseason berths, while the final four spots were given to two wild card teams in each conference based on point totals.

When multiple Teams finish tied (and all are Wild Card Teams) we use a combined Head to Head Record for the Involved Teams as a Tiebreaker.

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

The NFL has never seen a wild card team win three games on the road or a lower seed be favored over a # 1 seed.

Along with these changes, they adjusted the playoff format with the top three teams in each division making the playoffs along with two wild card teams.

As for the NFC playoff matchups, Dallas seems destined to host the wild card team — let's say Chicago for fun — and Los Angeles most likely will entertain the home folk with Minnesota.

Here's where it gets tricky: The two Wild Card teams will take the No. 4 seeds.

It's key to note that the Wild Card teams can play in a divisional playoff other than the one they call home during the regular season.

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 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.

Since then, Houston has reached the playoffs three times as a Wild Card team, including a World Series appearance in 2005, and a trip to the NLDS in 2015.

They play each other in week 17 in what could be a winner take all game, though I'm sure the loser will still make the playoffs as a wild card team.

And they lost to the wild card team, the Marlins, who have two World Series rings without ever winning their division, both times plowing through the division - winning Giants to get there.

(One team would be the wild card team, determined by a three - game series, because a one - game play - in just isn't fair.

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.

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 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.

On DP's report that a Wild Card team will be added in each conference, NFL says no decision made.

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

So they picked up 3 points for being a Wild Card team and 5 more for their eventual 3rd place Finish!

Each Group will have 1 Winner and there will be 3 Wild Card Teams that advance for a total of 9 Teams advancing to the Knockout Rounds

The four pool winners were Team Kornblatt, Team Watts, Team Dorfman and Team Cohen (all received 7 pts for this) and then Team Bulgatz and Team Bruck were the Wild Card teams (both received 3 pts for this).

As for 3rd place Team Apuli who advanced as a wild card team took down Team Kornblatt to grab 5 crucial points.

In the other quarterfinal game Team Young — AKL, who was the lowest ranked Pool Winner took on Team Rafferty — Sig Ep who actually had a better record than Team Young, but advanced as a Wild Card team due to a tough Pool.

Group D was eventually won by Team Kornblatt who nudged out Team Riskin by point differential (both had 3 - 1 record) but Team Riskin also advanced as a wild card team.