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The National Football League (NFL) playoffs is the annual single-elimination tournament held to determine the league champion. The four-round tournament is held after the league's regular season. Since the 2020 season, seven teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season winning percentage, with ...
In sport, seeding is the practice of separating the most skilled competitors from each other in the early rounds of a tournament. Players or teams are "planted" into the bracket in such a manner that the best do not meet until later in the competition, usually based on ranking from the regular season. The term was first used in tennis, [1] and ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) has used a best-of-seven format for the League Championship Series since 1985, and for the World Series between 1905 and 1918, and since 1922. [f] MLB uses the "2–3–2" format. The National Basketball Association (NBA) uses a "2–2–1–1–1" format for all playoff rounds including the Finals.
If the Cowboys or Eagles win or the Lions lose, the NFC East champ will be the No. 2 seed. NFC South title and No. 4 seed. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers win the division if they beat the Carolina Panthers.
Here's a complete breakdown of what the NFL playoff picture looks like in the NFC and AFC heading into Week 9 of the 2024 season: The Detroit Lions currently hold the No. 1 seed in the NFC through ...
And yet, with two games remaining in the regular season, at Baltimore (12-3) and at home against Buffalo (9-6) the Dolphins could enter the NFL Playoffs anywhere between a No. 1 seed and a No. 6 ...
In some situations, a seeding restriction may be implemented; from 1975 until 1989 in the NFL, and from 1994 until 2011 in MLB there was a rule where at the conference or league semifinal, should the top seed and last seed (wild card) be from the same division, they cannot play each other; in that case, the top seed plays the worst division ...
2023–24 NFL playoffs. The National Football League playoffs for the 2023 season began on January 13, 2024, and concluded with Super Bowl LVIII on February 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the San Francisco 49ers. This was the first postseason since 1998 not to feature either Peyton Manning or ...