Players wanted the change to equalize the chances for making the playoffs for every division. Each season, eight of 30 major league teams have made the playoffs under the format that began in 1995, a year later than intended because of a strike that wiped out the end of the '94 season.
The term modular home describes the construction method, or the process of how the structure was built. modular construction 1. Construction in which a selected unit or module, such as a box or other subcomponent, is used repeatedly in the aggregate construction.
Mobile homes, now called manufactured homes, are built to conform to the same federal code, no matter where they will be delivered. That code is called the HUD code. A modular home conforms to the building codes that are required at the specific location it will be delivered to, and in many cases, construction exceeds the required codes. Some critics might argue that a modular home is more attractive than a manufactured home.