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Major League BaseballEdit

One-game playoffs are currently used in Major League Baseball (MLB). When two or more MLB teams are 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 is used to determine the winner.

If a tie were (from 1995-2011) a two-way tie for a division championship and both tied teams' have records higher than those records of the second-place teams in the other divisions, or (from 2012) between the two division non-champions with the untied best record, there is no one-game playoff. In this scenario, the winner of the season series between the two teams is deemed to win the tie for purposes of playoff seeding.[1] Through the 2008 season, home-field advantage for one-game playoffs was determined by a coin flip, but effective in 2009, home advantage is based on a set of performance criteria, with the first tiebreaker being head-to-head record.[2]

For statistical purposes, one-game playoffs are considered part of the regular season. The result of the playoff is included in the regular season standings and individual player statistics are included along with the statistics for the rest of the season. One significant playoff-like deviation from normal regular season games in force as of 2007 is that six-man umpire crews are used (as opposed to the four-man crews of the regular season).[3] Also, television broadcasting rights for all are negotiated by MLB - since 2012, the network owning the rights to the Wild Card Game for a particular league has also had the rights to any tiebreaker(s) that might occur in that league.

Current MLB scheduling practices stipulate a break of at least one day between the scheduled end of the regular season and the start of the postseason. The schedule is designed to maximize the probability that tiebreakers can take place on the day after the scheduled end of the regular season with no alterations to the postseason schedule needing to be made as a result. Nevertheless, the schedule can be disrupted if rain-outs or other such events disrupt the schedule near the end of the season or on the day set aside for tiebreakers, and the tie-breaking procedure and scheduling would become more complicated if three or more teams tie.[1] This would require a series of one-game playoffs, taking more than one day. A series of one-game playoffs would also be necessary if teams tied for their division title also tied for the second wild card - in such a case, the division title would be settled first, with the loser of that game then contesting a tiebreaker for the wild card berth. There have been several occasions where such scenarios were possible as late as the last game of the season, but it has not yet happened. To provide some additional flexibility in case of make-up games and/or complicated playoff scenarios, an additional break of one day is always scheduled between the wild card game and the start of the Division Series in each league.

Starting in 2012, with the Wild Card game between the top two teams who did not win their division, if two teams tie for a division title and would both be in the playoffs, a one-game playoff would be held because it would determine which team receives the bye in the playoff, and if the winning percentage of the losing team is still enough to be a #1 or #2 wild card, the loser would be play in the wild card game. When two teams tie for the top two wild card positions, an extra game is not held - performance-based criteria is used in that case to determine the home team for the Wild Card Game.

Finally, although tiebreaker games count in the regular season standings, they do not count for the purposes of determining subsequent postseason qualification, seeding and home field advantage. For example, should two teams tie for their division title and also tie with the runner-up of another division for the wild card, the loser of the division tiebreaker can still host the team tied for the wild card (whether in another tiebreaker for the second wild card or in the Wild Card Game itself) based on performance-based criteria, even though in that scenario though they will have technically lost one more regular season game and therefore be a half game behind in the standings. However, if a team in such a scenario were to lose a divisional tiebreaker and then win a tiebreaker for the second wild card, it would actually finish a half game behind the division winner and a half game ahead of third place in the wild card standings.

Avoiding any confusion with the term "Playoffs" as the oft-used but unofficial name of MLB's post-season tournament, the term "Tiebreaker" is MLB's preferred term for a one-game playoff.


Through the 2013 MLB season, there have been 14 occasions where a playoff was needed to break a tie in a league, division, or wild card race. Of these playoffs, ten have been one-game playoffs and the other four were three-game playoffs. Prior to the advent of divisional play in 1969, the National League broke ties for its league championship with a best-of-three-games playoff - incidentally, all four of these series were ultimately won by the team that won the first game. The American League has always used one-game playoffs.

Prior to the wild card playoff system, all five pennant playoffs in the National League had involved the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (who won the coin toss for home field advantage all five times, yet lost every year except 1959), and both American League playoffs had involved the Boston Red Sox (who hosted both and lost both).

The 2018 season was the first to see two one-game playoffs, both for division titles (the NL Central and NL West) - the first time divisional one-game playoffs were needed at all since the MLB postseason expanded to ten teams. Both were in the National League and meant that the Game 163 winners won the division and advanced to the LDS, while the losers met each other in the Wild Card Game. Under the pre-2012 format, only the NL West tie-breaker would have been played since the NL Central runner-up would have been assured the Wild Card. It was the first time that the loser of a tie-breaker game still qualified for the postseason.

No playoff neededEdit


Since 2012, when the Wild Card Game was introduced, if two teams are tied atop the Wild Card standings, both would qualify for the Wild Card Game and no tiebreaker game would be necessary. The team who won the regular season series would host the Wild Card game. This has occurred in 2012 (Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers were both 93–69, Texas was awarded home field advantage due to winning the season series) and 2016 (Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays were both 89–73, Toronto was awarded home field advantage due to winning the season series). Under the pre-2012 format, these match-ups would have been played as tiebreaker games at the same venues.

Make-up gamesEdit



In 2008, the Chicago White Sox ended the season 1/2 game behind the Minnesota Twins for the American League Central division title. The fractional difference was due to the September 13 game between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, which had been rained out and not yet rescheduled. To determine whether, if the game had not been rained out, there would have been a tie between the Twins and White Sox, the White Sox and Tigers played the make-up game at the end of the season on September 29. The White Sox won, resulting in a Twins–White Sox tie that necessitated playing a one-game playoff in Chicago, which the White Sox won 1-0. Make-up games were also played after the season's end in 1973 and 1981.

Between 1901 and 1938, during a time when games were more often delayed by darkness and not always made up, there have been at least nine occasions on which making up postponed games might have resulted in a different pennant outcome, but the games were not made up.[4] Even today, make-up games that cannot be rescheduled before the end of the season are only played if there is a possibility their results could affect postseason qualification.

National Football LeagueEdit

The National Football League now has an elaborate formula for breaking ties in the qualification for its playoffs, and in the highly unlikely event that two teams tied in all relevant statistical criteria, the rules stipulate that a coin toss settle the tie, meaning one game playoffs are no longer possible.

However, before the merger of the National Football League and the American Football League in 1970, it was possible to have a playoff game if two teams tied for a division title. The NFL had 9 of these playoffs occur between 1941 and 1965, and the AFL, whose records were fully integrated with the NFL's upon merger, had two such playoffs (in 1963 and 1968). The All-America Football Conference, which merged with the NFL after the 1949 season (with the NFL absorbing three of the AAFC's franchises – the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and the original Baltimore Colts) also held a playoff tiebreaker game in 1948, but unlike the AFL's playoff games, the AAFC's records are not recognized by the older league.

The Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans of the National Football League tied for first place at the end of the 1932 season, and as both their games ended in ties, they held an extra game to determine the champion. Unlike subsequent post-season playoffs, this game was considered part of the regular season, as per baseball tie-breaking playoff games described above.


The NFL did have at least one tiebreaker prior to this, one that came into play for determining the 1921 title; if two teams tied each other in the standings and played twice, each winning one, then the winner of the second game won the title. This was of no use in 1932 because the Bears and Spartans had tied each other in their two matchups that year, and the NFL abandoned it.


The league's last one game playoff occurred in 1965; since 1967, when it was split into four divisions, the NFL has used a set of tiebreaking rules to break ties. The AFL did not adopt tiebreakers until its final season before the merger when it granted division runners-up a playoff berth, but since there were no ties for second place that year, the AFL tie-breakers were never used.

Today in the NFL, division winners and playoff qualifiers are technically determined by winning percentage and not by number of wins.

Prior to 1972, ties did not count for the purposes of this calculation. So, for example, one team finished 11-3 and another 10-2-2, there would have been no tiebreaker, as the team with two ties would have been deemed the outright division winners. This made tie games, a fairly common occurrence in football before overtime was introduced in 1974, somewhat more valuable to teams compared to the half-win they are considered today.

Today, two ties are of exactly equal strength to a win for the purpose of breaking ties since, unlike many other North American leagues, the current NFL tiebreaking criteria do not prioritize one win over two ties (or vice versa) in any way.

Both the NFL and AFL had provisions prior to their merger to allow for two weeks of one-game playoffs if three or four teams tied for a division title. Despite the relatively high probability of such a tie happening in a 12 or 14 game schedule compared to a longer season, this scenario never took place prior to the abolition of one-game playoffs.

The closest a three-way tie for a division came to happening was in 1957 when the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts all entered the final week of the season with identical 7-4 records. With none of those three teams playing each other in the last week, a three-way tie seemed likely until the Colts lost their final game, leaving the Lions and 49ers to contest the playoff between themselves; the Lions went on to win the NFL championship, their last as of 2018. A somewhat similar situation occurred in 1950, when there was a tie in both divisions, requiring two playoffs.

While there are no one-game playoffs in the NFL today, current scheduling practices (which include exclusively intradivisional matchups at the end of the season), combined with the NFL's short schedule, make it possible that the last week of the regular season will include a winner-take-all game between two teams, which has the effect and feel of a one-game playoff. Typically, such games will be scheduled for prime time under the NFL's flexible scheduling policy (provided their result does not carry potential playoff implications for other teams; the NFL's current scheduling rules dictate that Week 17 games with mutual playoff implications always start at the same time).

For example, the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys entered the final week of the 2011 NFL season tied at 8-7 for first place in the NFC East. The teams, scheduled to play in Dallas, were both out of contention for a wild card berth, meaning the winner of the game would win the division, while the loser would miss the playoffs altogether. The Giants defeated the Cowboys and went on to win the Super Bowl.

NFL one game playoffsEdit

Home teams in bold.

Year Division* Winning Team Losing Team Score Championship Game
National Los Angeles Rams Chicago Bears 24–14


AFL one game playoffsEdit

Home team in bold.

Year Division Winning Team Losing Team Score Championship Game

AAFC one game playoffEdit

Home team in bold.

Year Division Winning Team Losing Team Score Championship Game

*Not to be confused with the modern day Buffalo Bills or Indianapolis Colts, the latter of whom were originally based in Baltimore and joined the NFL three years after the AAFC Colts folded, while the current Buffalo Bills joined the NFL 20 years after the AAFC team folded.

Canadian Football LeagueEdit

Like in the NFL, one-game tiebreaking playoffs were a regular feature in the early years of the provincial competitions that were eventually consolidated into the Canadian Football League. They were abandoned in the mid-1930s as Canadian football evolved from consisting of provincial leagues to two regional conferences (the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and Western Interprovincial Football Union). Previously, the regional Eastern and Western champions that played in the Grey Cup were determined by playoffs between the winners of each region's leagues. These regional playoffs were sufficiently popular (and the teams were so dependent on gate receipts in the then-short season available to play football in Canada) that the regional conferences implemented a format that ensured playoffs were contested every season as opposed to only those where ties needed to be broken.

The current tiebreaking criteria are substantially different in the CFL compared to the NFL, although like the NFL it culminates in a coin toss in the highly unlikely event all specified performance-based criteria cannot break a tie at the end of the regular season. Also unlike the NFL, the CFL and its antecedent competitions have always awarded "points" the standings in the same manner as is done in ice hockey (which is by far Canada's most popular sport) as well as other codes of football especially rugby from which the gridiron codes evolved. Teams receive two points for a win and one for a tie. Starting in 2000, the CFL also experimented with awarding a point for an overtime loss as is typically done in hockey today, but dropped the "OTL" point after only three seasons. A tie has therefore always effectively counted as a "half-win" in the standings in Canadian football, with the caveat that in all tie-breakers in force since the end of tiebreaking playoffs, the first tiebreaker (other than for determining a crossover team) has always been number of wins (same as in hockey) whereas, as mentioned earlier, number of wins compared to ties has never been a tiebreaking criterium in the NFL.

National Basketball AssociationEdit



NBA one game playoffsEdit

Home team in bold.

Year Division Winning Team Losing Team Score Afterward
Stags lost to the Bullets in the semifinals.
Bullets defeated the Philadelphia Warriors in the BAA Finals.
West 2nd place Baltimore Bullets* Chicago Stags 75–72
Royals lost the Fort Wayne Pistons in the Central Division Semifinals.
Lakers defeated the Syracuse Nationals in the NBA Finals.
Lakers lost to the Hawks in the Western Division semifinals.
Pistons lost to the Lakers in the Western Division Semifinals
Lakers lost to the Hawks in the Western Division Finals.
Hawks lost to the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.


ABA one game playoffsEdit

Home team in bold.

Year Division Winning Team Losing Team Score Afterward


National Hockey LeagueEdit

Though the National Hockey League, currently the only major professional ice hockey league in North America, has never actually held a one-game playoff in its century long existence, its current playoff qualification rules explicitly allow for the possibility. Under current rules, a tie between two teams for a conference's final playoff berth (this being the second wild card seed of a conference under the current format) can only be broken by the first three tie-breakers - regulation and overtime wins (ROW), head-to-head results,[5] and overall goal differential. Prior to the 2005 introduction of the shootout in the NHL, ROW was simply referred to as "wins" for tiebreaker purposes. The right to host such a game would be determined by a random draw.

Like in MLB, such a game in the NHL would be considered a regular season game for statistical purposes with the caveat that the points earned would not count for playoff seeding purposes - in other words, the winner would enter the playoffs as the second wild card even if the two points they earned nominally caused them to otherwise tie or overtake other qualifying teams in total points and the loser would be eliminated even if they lost in overtime and the single point they earned nominally allowed them tie or overtake other qualifying teams in a similar manner. The other main difference from an ordinary regular season game is that playoff overtime rules (that is, unlimited periods of five-on-five play with no possibility of a shootout) would be used if necessary.

A one game playoff would not be held simply to determine playoff seeding and/or draft lottery position for non-playoff teams - League rules in these cases mandate a more exhaustive set of tiebreakers culminating in a random drawing to determine playoff seeding and/or final regular season standing. The more exhaustive set of tiebreakers would also be used in the extremely unlikely event three or more teams in a conference tied in points, ROW, head-to-head results and overall goal differential for one or two playoff berths. In this case the more exhaustive criteria would be used to determine the club(s) which would qualify (in case of two available berths) or not qualify (in case of one available berth) without playing a one-game playoff, which would then be held between the two remaining teams if and only if they were also tied between each other in ROW, head-to-head results and overall goal differential. It is therefore not even remotely possible for there to be two or more one-game playoffs in a conference in a particular season.

Recent scenariosEdit

In its modern era, the NHL has provisionally scheduled a one-game playoff near the end of the regular season on two occasions. Neither such playoff proved to be necessary.

In 2000, the Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens entered the final weekend of the regular season with the possibility of being tied for the final playoff spot and deadlocked on all relevant tiebreakers (wins, head-to-head results, and overall goal differential). The league announced that, if necessary, a tiebreaker game would be played the day after the regular season,[6] but the Canadiens' loss in their final game rendered the point moot.

Likewise, in 2018, if the Florida Panthers had won their last two games via shootout and the Philadelphia Flyers lost their last game by exactly two goals, the teams would have been equal in all tiebreaker criteria, and would have contested a play-in game for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference.[7] This was avoided when the Flyers won their final game of the regular season and clinched the last playoff berth in the conference, eliminating Florida from playoff contention.

World Hockey AssociationEdit

The NHL's most significant rival in its modern era, the World Hockey Association, actually held a one game playoff. The playoff was hastily added at the end of the inaugural regular season after two teams, the Alberta Oilers (now Edmonton Oilers) and the Minnesota Fighting Saints tied for points, wins and head-to-head record, these being the only tie-breakers stipulated in WHA rules. The Fighting Saints defeated the Oilers in the game, which was played in Calgary. The ad hoc nature of the game was controversial. Had the NHL tiebreakers been in effect, the Oilers would have qualified for the playoffs since they had superior goal differential — critics argued that the real reason the league ordered the playoff was that they wanted to give the Fighting Saints an extra chance to qualify on account of the fact that they were playing in a large, brand new arena whereas the Oilers were playing in a small and antiquated facility.

As a footnote, the Fighting Saints went on to play the Winnipeg Jets, who defeated them four games to one. This would turn out to be the only hockey playoff series between any two professional teams representing these two relatively nearby geographical cross-border locales until the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs. The 1972–73 season remains the only time a tiebreaking game has been played in a major North American hockey league. The WHA would later merge with the NHL, with four WHA franchises switching leagues: the Oilers, the Hartford Whalers (now the Carolina Hurricanes), the Quebec Nordiques (now the Colorado Avalanche), and the Jets (now the Arizona Coyotes and unrelated except in name and league affiliation to the current Winnipeg franchise).

WHA one game playoffEdit

Year Division Winning Team Losing Team Site Score Afterward

Ivy League basketballEdit

In recent decades in U.S. college basketball, both men's and women's, most conferences have held tournaments to determine a winner who is awarded an automatic berth in the NCAA's postseason tournament. The Ivy League, however, was the last holdout in NCAA Division I—through the 2015–16 season, it continued to award its automatic NCAA tournament berth to the team with the best regular-season record in conference play. In case of a tie at the top of the standings, rules called for a one-game playoff, with the winner claiming the conference's automatic bid. If more than two teams were tied, a series of one-game playoffs was held. The Ivy League held its first postseason tournaments for both men and women at the end of the 2016–17 season, with the top four teams in the conference standings participating at a predetermined site.[8]

In men's basketball, nine seasons ended in such a playoff, with the last being the 2014–15 season in which Harvard and Yale finished tied.[9] The only time more than two teams finished tied atop the regular season standings was in the 2001–02 season, when Yale beat Princeton in the first one-game playoff, before losing to Penn.[9] The last three-way playoff in women's basketball was in the 2007–08 season, in which Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard all finished at 11–3 in league play. It was determined that Dartmouth would play Harvard in the first playoff game, with the winner facing Cornell. Dartmouth won the first playoff game, with Cornell winning the playoff final.


Tie-breaker games are the traditional method of resolving meaningful ties in round robin-style curling tournaments. This is a fairly common occurrence as such round robins rarely involve more than twelve games per team. However, unlike most other sports it is common for curling teams to play two or even (more rarely) three games in a day and tournaments are typically played in a single venue. Therefore, scheduling even multi-team tie-breakers is relatively easy to arrange in a typical bonspiel compared to many other league-based competitions.

Canadian championship curlingEdit

Canadian championship curling tournaments, of which the premier bonspiels are the Brier (for men) and the Tournament of Hearts (for women) use tie-breaker games when teams tie between qualifying and non-qualifying positions in the round robin standings. While the tie-breaker has always been a one-game playoff in cases where two teams have been tied, when the Brier was first held in the 1920s (long before the introduction of automatic playoffs) the tie-breaker would consist of an additional mini-round robin if more than two teams tied for the title. Later, as the Brier field became fixed as consisting of teams representing every province plus Northern Ontario, the tie-breaker evolved to consist of "semi-final" and "final" stages in cases of ties involving three or more teams. The last tie-breaker games for a Brier title before the introduction of automatic playoffs took place in 1971 when three teams tied for first place.

Prior to the introduction of automatic playoffs, tie-breaker games were only used to when needed to determine the champion. Since the introduction of automatic playoffs, tie-breaker games have only been used where qualification for the next stage of the tournament is at stake. Otherwise, performance-based criteria starting with head-to-head record is used to determine playoff seeding and final pool or tournament ranking. Since the introduction of pool play in 2018, one-game playoffs occur if teams are tied between fourth and fifth place in the pool stage (which determines qualification for the Championship Pool) and again if teams are tied between fourth and fifth place in the Championship Pool (which determines qualification for the playoffs). Unlike other pool stage games, tie-breaker results are not carried over by the winning team(s) to the Championship Pool.

Use in the PhilippinesEdit


Philippine Basketball AssociationEdit



Playoffs such as those after the 2004 restructuring are common due to the low number of games played in the elimination round (14–18 games). In fact, each conference was able to feature at least one playoff game, until the 2007–08 PBA Philippine Cup where even though there were tied teams, the team's positions are not critical so they were resolved on the point differential among the tied teams' games. Only the playoffs for the last playoffs berth are included in the table below, where one team is eliminated from contention.

Season Conference Winning team Losing team Score Afterward
2008–09 Fiesta Coca-Cola Tigers Alaska Aces 81–74 Eliminated by Sta. Lucia in the wildcard phase
2013–14 Philippine Alaska Aces Meralco Bolts 94–91 Eliminated by Alaska in the quarterfinals
2015–16 Governors' Phoenix Fuel Masters Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 105–94 Eliminated by TNT in the quarterfinals
2016–17 Philippine Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Blackwater Elite 103–80 Eliminated by San Miguel in the quarterfinals
Commissioner's GlobalPort Batang Pier Alaska Aces 107–106 Eliminated by Barangay Ginebra in the quarterfinals
2017–18 Philippine TNT KaTropa Phoenix Fuel Masters 118–97 Eliminated by San Miguel in the quarterfinals
2019 Philippine Alaska Aces NLEX Road Warriors 88–80 Eliminated by Phoenix in the quarterfinals

Previously, the PBA also had one-game playoffs to determine the Finals participant. This happened when the semifinal round is a round robin format, and where there are two or more teams tied for the second seed, or if a team won a certain number of semifinal round games, but did not finish in the top two berths. Each season had at least one such game. In the 1993 PBA Governors' Cup, there were two such games: to break the deadlock for the second seed, in which the winner faced the team with the best semifinal round record.

College sportsEdit



Men's playoff results include:

Season League Winning team Losing team Score Afterward
2018 UAAP FEU La Salle 71–70 Eliminated by Ateneo in the semifinals
2017 NCAA Letran Arellano 70–68 Eliminated by San Sebastian in the elimination playoff second round
San Sebastian Letran 74–69 Eliminated by San Beda in the stepladder semifinals second round
2015 NCAA Mapua Arellano 93–75 Eliminated by Letran in the semifinals
2014 UAAP NU UE 51–49 Won championship against FEU
2012 UAAP La Salle FEU 69–66 Eliminated by Ateneo in the semifinals
2012 NCAA UPHSD JRU 73–68 Eliminated by San Beda in the semifinals
2008 NCAA Mapua San Sebastian 63–54 Eliminated by San Beda in the semifinals
2007 UAAP UST FEU 80–69 Eliminated by Ateneo in the stepladder semifinals first round
2004 NCAA San Beda Mapua 59–52 Eliminated by Perpetual in the semifinals
2001 UAAP NU UE 108–102 (2OT) Eliminated by La Salle in the semifinals
2000 UAAP UST UE 65–61 Eliminated by La Salle in the semifinals
1998 UAAP UST UP 80–72 Eliminated by La Salle in the semifinals

In 2017, there were three teams tied for #4 in the NCAA, leading to two rounds of playoffs for #4. In 2015, three teams were tied for #3, and two rounds of playoffs were held: the first round for the #4 seed (loser is eliminated), and the second round for the #3 seed (loser is #4 seed).

Ties may also broken when two teams are tied for third, second and first seeds, although the competing teams still qualify for the playoffs when they lose; a playoff game for the #2 seed serves as a de facto game 1 of a best-of-three series. The UAAP had depreciated for playoffs for the #1 and #3 seeds.

The UAAP has also used this format for the volleyball tournaments.

Association footballEdit

A one-game playoff is at least theoretically possible in association football league competitions, where two teams competing for a significant prize are tied in all tie-breaking criteria. Most association football leagues only consider points, then goal difference and then goals scored when determining final standing.[10] A few leagues also consider such criteria as head-to-head records, but this is not the norm. One-game playoffs are typically held in a neutral venue, often a national stadium especially for playoffs involving teams with large fanbases. The games are not counted in the regular season tables.

Historically, a drawn one-game playoff would often result in a replay a few days later, although there have been occasions (such as in Scotland in 1891) where a draw resulted in the participants being declared joint champions. Today, most league competitions will use extra time and/or a penalty shootout to settle drawn one-game playoffs if needed.

For example, the Premier League announced that there would be a one-game playoff for third place between Arsenal and Chelsea if the two teams had finished exactly level at the end of the 2012–13 season.[10] This would have been necessary because third place conferred automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, whereas fourth place only led to a place in the final qualifying round of that competition.[10] Before tiebreak rules such as goal difference were utilised, the Scottish league championships in 1891 and 1905 were determined by one game playoffs.[11]

Until the 2004–05 season, the Italian Serie A had a one-game playoff called Spareggio, to determine the league champion if teams were tied in points at the end of the season.


Lamar Hunt U. S. Open CupEdit


See alsoEdit


  5. ^ In cases where NHL teams play an odd number of games between each other in the regular season, the first home game of the team which hosted more games is excluded for the purpose of determining the better head-to-head record
  6. ^ "Jagr's OT goal sinks Sabres". CBS News. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Flyers, Panthers could have play-in game to determine final playoff berth".
  9. ^ a b "2015 Men's Basketball Playoff Details Announced" (Press release). Ivy League. March 9, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  11. ^ Ross, James M. (9 August 2013). "Scotland – List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 October 2013.