One-Game Playoff (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A one-game playoff, sometimes known as a pennant playoff or play-in game, is a tiebreaker in certain sports-usually but not always professional-to determine which of two teams, tied in the final standings, will qualify for a post-season tournament. Such a playoff is either a single game or a short series of games (such as best-2-of-3). This is distinguished from the more general usage of the term "playoff," which refers to the post-season tournament itself. One-game playoffs are currently used in Major League Baseball (MLB). When two or more MLB teams are tied for a division championship or wild card playoff berth at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff is used to determine the winner, except in cases where the tie is a two-way tie for a division championship and the tied teams' records are higher than the records of the second place teams in the other divisions.