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A "wild card" rule was used in the 1981 season after a players' strike wiped out the "middle third" of the season. The owners decided that the winners (in each division) of each "half" of the abbreviated season would make the playoffs, with the caveat that if the same team won both halves then that division's team with the second-best record from the second half would enter the playoffs as a ...
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or playoff awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify through an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers.
Wild card most commonly refers to: Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games; Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play; Wild card, wild cards or wildcard may also refer to:
The playoffs begin on Tuesday, Oct. 1 with the best-of-three wild card series – two in each league. Here's a full look at the MLB postseason picture: AL wild card standings.
The National League wild card picture is down to three teams vying for two spots. The Mets and Diamondbacks are currently in position to advance, but the Atlanta Braves (86-71) are a mere half ...
The two wild card teams in each league face each other in a one-game playoff, the Wild Card Game, with the winner advancing to meet the number one seed in the Division Series. For the 2020 postseason only, the field expanded to include three second-place teams per division, followed by the wild card teams represented by the next two best ...
Here's the schedule for the wild-card round and beyond: NFL playoff schedule: Wild-card games. Jan. 11. Los Angeles Chargers at Houston Texans, 4:30 p.m. ET, CBS.
In SQL, wildcard characters can be used in LIKE expressions; the percent sign % matches zero or more characters, and underscore _ a single character. Transact-SQL also supports square brackets ([and ]) to list sets and ranges of characters to match, a leading caret ^ negates the set and matches only a character not within the list.