Those variables account, in part, for conflicting estimates of New Yorkâs land area since the city was consolidated in 1898. At that time, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island joined Manhattan and the Bronx to form Greater New York, and the city ballooned to a trumpeted 360 square miles from 60 or so.
Confidence votes 162. Two wild card teams from each league makes the MLB playoff each year. As of 2012 there is a one game wild card playoff between the two best records in each league who didn't win their division. + 134 others found this useful.
There are 30 teams in the NBA divided into 2 conferences, each containing 4 divisions I believe. All the teams play 82 games in the regular season. The top seed of each division is automatically given a playoff berth, no matter how bad the record. Those would result in 8 playoff spots total. The other 8 are decided by the 4 next highest records of non-division-winning teams in each conference.