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The team with the most championships is the Yomiuri Giants, who have won the Japan Series twenty-two times. In 2004, the Pacific League instituted a three-team stepladder playoff format to determine the league champion , while the Central League champion had a long wait before the Japan Series.
The 2023 Japan Series (日本シリーズ, Nippon Shiriizu) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) 2023 season. The 74th edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the winners of the Central League (CL) and Pacific League's (PL) postseason tournament, the Climax Series.
The League of Legends Japan League (LJL) is the top level of professional League of Legends competition in Japan. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The league franchised prior to start of the 2019 season and had eight teams under partnership (which became six in 2024).
Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
The 2024 Japan Series (日本シリーズ, Nippon Shiriizu) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) 2024 season. The 75th edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Central League (CL) and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Pacific League (PL).
The 2024 Central League Climax Series was a set of two consecutive playoff series in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). The first stage began on October 12 and the final stage concluded on October 21. The first stage was a best-of-three series between the second-place Hanshin Tigers and the third-place Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
With their first two playoff systems abolished, the Pacific League returned to simply advancing their regular-season champion directly to the Japan Series. During this time, the PL's Seibu Lions won six Japan Series championship titles in seven seasons from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. After the fall of the Lions in the mid-1990s, the ...
In February 2003, the Pacific League board of directors agreed to reintroduce a playoff system to be used for the 2004 NPB season. [4] If a first-place team had a substantial lead in the standings nearing the end of the regular season, the league's champion would have been decided and there was little excitement until the start of the Japan Series. [3]