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Through the 2023 postseason, three AL wild card teams have gone on win the World Series (Anaheim in 2002, Boston in 2004, and Texas in 2023), two teams won the AL pennant but lost the World Series (Detroit in 2006 and Kansas City in 2014), and eight other teams won a division series but lost the championship series, most recently the Yankees in ...
In 1982, the league held a 16-team tournament due to the players strike, which reduced the regular season to just 9 games. The playoffs expanded to 12 teams for the 1990 season, and again to 14 teams for the 2020 season, with an additional game added to this week in each year. Teams who later went on to win the Super Bowl that season are in bold.
The names of the first two playoff rounds date back to the postseason format that was first used in 1978, when the league added a second wild-card team to each conference. The first round of the playoffs is dubbed the wild-card round, wild-card weekend, or, since 2021, super wild-card weekend. In this round, the second-seeded division winner ...
The Liberty WNBA Final win snapped the team's streak of five WNBA Finals losses. Center Jonquel Jones won WNBA Finals MVP, as the star center averaged 15.5 points per game over the playoffs.
Week 15 of the NFL season is here, and four teams have already clinched playoff spots. The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs are locked into the playoffs with division titles. In the NFC, the ...
With seven teams on each side of the bracket, the No. 1 seed in each conference — division winner with best record — gets a first-round bye while the rest of the field plays in the wild card ...
Cincinnati Bengals (3) – XVI, XXIII, and LVI; an AFL expansion team in 1968, they have no pre-Super Bowl league championships. Carolina Panthers (2) – XXXVIII and 50; a post-merger expansion team, their first season was in 1995. Atlanta Falcons (2) – XXXIII and LI; an NFL expansion team in 1966, they have no pre-Super Bowl league ...
Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to reach the Super Bowl, 9–7 (0.563) Los Angeles Rams, 1979 Arizona Cardinals, 2008 New York Giants, 2011. Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to win the Super Bowl, 9–7 (0.563) New York Giants, 2011. Longest playoff game, 82 minutes, 40 seconds