Which is why it's nice to see a few
wild card winners break through.
All four
Wild Card winners will have to travel once again.
Friday, Oct. 6 ALDS Game 2: Red Sox at Astros, 2:05 p.m. (FS1) ALDS Game 2: AL
Wild Card winner at Indians, 5:08 p.m. (MLB Network) NLDS Game 1: Cubs at Nationals, 7:31 p.m. (TBS) NLDS Game 1: NL
Wild Card winner at Dodgers, 10:31 p.m. (TBS)
The Wild Card winner will join the other two finalists on stage at Animal Care Expo.
On Monday along with TechCrunch editors, attendees vote for their favorite startup and choose
a Wild Card Winner, and that lucky startup goes on to compete in the Startup Battlefield.
Not exact matches
But the
winner could be YOU — we have a «
Wild Card» slot available on the day!
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.
Before moving on, let's look back at what we learned from the four
winners on
Wild Card weekend.
Colorado will play the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL
Wild Card Game on Wednesday, with the
winner facing a fellow divisional foe, the Los Angeles Dodgers, in the National League Division Series.
Basically, Team Harris, a Division
Winner has the same record as
Wild Card Team Lalez..
Cleveland Indians 102 - 60 (AL Central
winners) Houston Astros 101 - 61 (AL West
winners) Boston Red Sox 93 - 69 (AL East
winners) New York Yankees 91 - 71 (first AL
Wild Card) Minnesota Twins 85 - 77 (second AL
Wild Card)
Each
Wild Card Game is a single - elimination contest, held on Tuesday, Oct. 3 (American League) and Wednesday, Oct. 4 (National League), with the
winners advancing to face the top seeds in each league.
Los Angeles Dodgers 104 - 58 (NL West
winners) Washington Nationals 97 - 65 (NL East
winners) Chicago Cubs 92 - 70 (NL Central
winners) Arizona Diamondbacks 93 - 69 (first NL
Wild Card) Colorado Rockies 87 - 75 (second AL
Wild Card)
The Colorado Rockies,
winners of the second NL
Wild Card spot, are back for the October dance for the first time since 2009 and just one season after an 87 - loss campaign.
The
winner of each division faces off against a
wild card team, while the second - and third - place teams face each other.
If only U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson had used one of his
wild -
card picks on the 2014 FedEx Cup
winner, maybe things would have turned out differently at Gleneagles.
Toronto is dangerous because it has ace righthander Roy Halladay (9 - 2, 3.07 ERA) and a high - powered offense (first in the majors in sluggingpercentage), but assuming the AL
wild -
card winner comes out of the Central, where the White Sox and the Tigers each were on pace for more than 105 wins, the Blue Jays would have to hurdle the Yankees and the Red Sox, who havefinished one - two in the East every year since 1998, to reach thepostseason.
He's a long shot for one of those two
wild -
card spots, reserved for race
winners who finish 11th through 20th in points, but the fact that he's in mathematical contention makes the 28 - year - old Floridian one of the surprises of 2012.
They were
wild -
card winners with an off, creaky Harvey.
Wild Card round would be a 3 - game set at the Division
Winner's home stadium, no travel.
Reseed for Semi-Finals, 2 -3-2 format, highest division
winner gets home field advantage, followed by
Wild Cards by season record if 1 or fewer division
winner makes it to this round.
Wild Card would be Division
winners vs
Wild Cards, 3 - game set at the Division
winners, no travel.
If the Vikings and Bears finish up with 9 - 5 records, Minnesota will be the division
winner and the Bears will edge out the Redskins as the
wild card, even if Washington performs that miracle over the Rams.
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.
Cleveland will face the
winner of the AL
Wild Card Game, which will feature the Twins visiting the Yankees in New York on Tuesday night.
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.
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.
Out of the 10
wild card game
winners from 2012 - 2016, five have won the division series, showing just how unpredictable baseball can be.
The
winner of the NL
Wild Card Game will advance to play another divisional foe with the Los Angeles Dodgers waiting in the NL Division Series, which begins Friday, Oct. 6 at Dodger Stadium.
The Chicago Cubs await the
winner of the NL
Wild Card Game.
The Indians will kick off their postseason on Thursday against the
winner of Tuesday's AL
Wild Card game of Minnesota (+200) at New York Yankees -LRB--235).
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).
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.
There were 4 pools, with each pool having a
winner and then 2
Wild Card Teams also advancing.
What I truly envision is Team Apuli and Team Hakimian splitting their 2 Pool Play games and both advancing — 1 as the group
winner and the other as the
wild card..
That means there are essentially three teams vying for two
wild cards in the AFC, plus the division
winners from the woeful AFC South and NFC East.
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.
As the dangerous cat - and - mouse game unfolds, a
wild card emerges: Madaline (Academy Award
winner Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda.
Produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B (Oscar
winners for 12 Years a Slave), distributed by A24 (last season's Best Actress
winner Brie Larson — Room and Visual Effects
winner Ex Machina) and starring Naomie Harris (Skyfall), André Holland (The Knick), Janelle Monaé (Hidden Figures) and Emmy - nominee Mahershala Ali (House of
Cards) Moonlight combines elements of Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern
Wild and the documentary On the Downlow to give us a truly new vision of cinema.
This year, though, all four acting
winners look like good bets to repeat at the Oscars — the first time that would happen — with Nyong» o perhaps the one
wild card.
-- Garrett Hedlund or Jason Mitchell (Mudbound) as WWII soldiers returning to a home they don't quite belong to; and the
wild cards: two - time Oscar
winners Christoph Waltz (Downsizing), playing a shrunken resident of Leisureland, and Kevin Spacey (All the Money in the World) as Jean Paul Getty, who will either shine in the role or be a hot mess in prosthetics.
The other
wild cards are VGJ.Storm, Keen Gaming and The Final Tribe, as well as Thailand qualifier
winner Alpha Red.
Artwork
winners are always a
wild card.
Wild Card There will also be the People's Choice Award, with the
winner voted for by the public and automatically shortlisted straight to the final 30.