how many games are played in the mlb divisional series?
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In Major League Baseball, the National League Division Series (NLDS) determines which two teams from the National League will advance to the National League Championship Series. The Division Series consists of two best-of-five series, featuring the three division winners and the winner of the wild-card play-off.
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Format. The NLDS is a five-game series where the wild-card team is assigned to play the divisional winner with the best winning percentage in the regular season. ... Initially, the best-of-5 series played in a 2-3 format, with the first two games set at home for the lower-seed team and the last three for the higher seed.
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The Divisional Series is a best-of-five series, featuring the three division winners and a wild-card team. Typically, the wild-card team plays the division leader with the best winning percentage in one series, and the other two division leaders play the other series.
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Nonetheless, these numbers are misleading—after all, baseball's 162-game season far outnumbers any of the other major league's seasons. Instead, the ratio approach is used—for instance, MLB's 33 spring training games are equivalent to 20 percent of the MLB season.
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The second round of the playoffs (known as the "Championship Series") are played over the best-of-seven games, with home field advantage meaning four home games (two games at one venue, three at the other, then two more at the first venue). In the first round, the no. 1 ranked team plays the no. 4 ranked team (and no.
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The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to seven games, are always played in a 2–3–2 format: games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.
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The pro baseball season is eight months long, with games beginning in April. Teams play 144 games (as compared to the 162 games of the American major league teams), followed by a playoff system, culminating in a championship held in October, known as the Japan Series.
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How home-court advantage works in the playoffs. Each series in the NBA postseason is played in a 2-2-1-1-1 format. The team with the highest seed always gets four home games in a seven-game series and also plays the first two games of the series at home. It hasn't always been this way.
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The Stanley Cup playoffs consists of four rounds of best-of-seven series. Each series is played in a 2–2–1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-ice advantage hosts games one, two, five, and seven, while their opponent hosts games three, four, and six.
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It is possible for a 24 win team to get into the playoffs. So each team plays 4 games against its 4 division opponents (16), 4 games against 6 in conference out of division opponents (24), 3 games vs remaining 4 in conference opponents (12), and 2 games vs out of conference opponents (30).
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Since most professional baseball games are nine innings long, the fifth inning is used as the threshold for an official game. If the visiting team is leading, or the game is tied, the end of the fifth inning marks this point.
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The 2017 National League Division Series were two best-of-five-game series to determine the participating teams of the 2017 National League Championship Series. The three divisional winners (seeded 1-3) and a fourth team—the winner of a one-game Wild Card playoff— played in two series.
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Format. The NLDS is a five-game series where the wild-card team is assigned to play the divisional winner with the best winning percentage in the regular season. The two remaining divisional winners meet in the other series with the team with the second best winning percentage, hosting that series.
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All first-round games will be part of best-of-three series. The games will also all be played at the home of the higher seeded-team, eliminating the need for a travel day. The "Wild Card Series" will all take place between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2.
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How home-court advantage works in the playoffs. Each series in the NBA postseason is played in a 2-2-1-1-1 format. The team with the highest seed always gets four home games in a seven-game series and also plays the first two games of the series at home.
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The winners of the ALCS and NLCS advance to the World Series, the best-of-seven-game playoff. Prior to the 2002 season, a home-field advantage (games 1, 2, 6, and 7) alternated every year between the leagues. ... The first team to win four games in the best-of-seven-game series becomes the Major League champion.
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Each team plays 82 games in the regular season. Eight teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs.