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Major League Baseball (MLB) has a luxury tax called the "Competitive Balance Tax" (CBT). In place of a salary cap, the competitive balance tax regulates the total sum of money a given team can spend on their roster. Salary caps are common across professional sports leagues in the United States. Without these measures, teams would not be ...
D 3 3rd place in District tournament D• 4th place in District tournament D 5th or 6th place in District tournament; 1975 through 1998. Regional tournaments consisted of 4-team or 6-team double elimination brackets. Depending on how the tournament played out, there could be two teams tying for 3rd place, or separate 3rd and 4th place teams.
Most major collegiate baseball conferences with a double-elimination format send only the top eight teams, or a mix of top teams plus the winners of a single-elimination qualifier tournament, to their conference tournament. The NCAA baseball and softball tournaments have used the format since its inception for regional and College World Series ...
In the post-season tournament, only the teams with the best records qualify, except the division winner (and also #2 and #3 in the division in the NHL) having an automatic entry into the tournament. Some North American professional post-season tournaments are single-elimination format. If a bye is required, the top seeded teams usually get the ...
With the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri for 2013, and the lack of any "bubble" in recent years to the tournament (in some years, all eight teams in the tournament and a team or two that does not make the tournament would qualify for the NCAA Regionals), the SEC expanded the tournament from 8 to 10 teams. The tournament began on Tuesday and ...
One-game playoffs were used in Major League Baseball (MLB) through the 2021 season. When two or more MLB teams were tied for a division championship or the wild card playoff berth (1995–2011, or starting in 2012, the second only) at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the winner.
The NBA play-in tournament features four teams in both the Western and Eastern Conference. Each season, the teams that finished with the No. 7-10 seeds go to the play-in format.
In American team sports, the NFL playoffs and WNBA playoffs employ re-seeding, and the NBA playoffs and the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament do not. The Stanley Cup Playoffs used re-seeding between 1975 and 1981 and again from 1994 and 2013, and the MLS Cup Playoffs used re-seeding until 2018.