Definitions for Playoffs
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1. Playoffs

   The playoffs, postseason, or finals of a sports league are a game, a series of games or a tournament played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be either a single-elimination system or one of several other different playoff formats. In the U.S. and Canada, the vast distances and consequent burdens on cross-country travel have led to regional groupings of teams, usually called divisions. Generally, during the regular season, teams play more games against opponents that are within their own grouping than those outside it. Since every team has not necessarily had a chance to prove itself against every other team, a playoff is necessary every season. Any team that wins its grouping is eligible to participate in the playoffs. As playoffs became more popular, they were expanded to allow teams that finished second or even lower in the grouping to participate. The term wild card refers to these teams. While they technically can refer to any team that does not finish first in its grouping, the term is most often used when the teams that qualify without finishing first in their group is quite low, such as in the NFL and MLB where only four teams out of 32 in the former and 30 in the latter qualify in this manner. In fact the term was first used when the number of teams qualifying as wild cards was even lower, when the wildcard was first invented by the NFL in 1970 and only two teams qualified as non first place finishers. MLB also had only two wildcards teams from its first year of having wildcards in 1995 until expanding to a four wildcard format beginning with the 2012 season.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Playoffs in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Playoffs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Playoffs in a Sentence

1. Atlanta Hawks:

   I think guys are learning that, we're no longer the hunters. It's (the) regular season. I'm not going to lie, it's a lot more boring than the playoffs. You got to find that motivation to play like the playoffs.

2. Golden State coach Steve Kerr:

   We had a tremendous season and did something no one has done before. We're proud of that. But in the playoffs, everyone starts 0-0, so there's no extra pressure.

3. Miles Bridges:

   This team was in the Finals last year, they know what it’s like to be in the playoffs. Mostly everybody on our team doesn’t know how to be in the playoffs. ... So yeah, they played more physical than us and it showed.

4. Hampus Lindholm and Sami Vatanen:

   You learn a little bit all the time, how you have to practice and how you have to rehab your things to be able to play after an 82-game season, i had a hard summer and practiced hard all summer so I'll be ready in the playoffs.

5. Patrick Kane:

   Yeah, I think it's kind of like one of those things I have to do for playoffs now, not just for myself, but for the team, it seems like a lot of different people enjoy it.

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