Five teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus two wild card teams.

The two division winners within each league played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

The Division Series consists of two concurrent best-of-five series, featuring the three division winners and the winner of the wild-card game.

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

The two series winners move on to the best-of-seven ALCS.

The Division Series consists of two best-of-five series, featuring the three division winners and a wild-card team.

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

The two series winners move on to the best-of-seven NLCS.

The divisional winners met in a best-of-5 series to advance to the World Series, in a " 2 – 3 " format, first two games were played at the home of the team who did not have home field advantage.

The national championship winners from the Top-4 ranked nations receive automatic qualification, while the remaining two spots are made up by a team nominated by the Local Event organiser and the winner of the previous year's EuroFloorball Cup.

Two early figures stand out: Hippias of Elis, who produced the lists of winners in the Olympic Games that provided the basic chronological framework as long as the pagan classical tradition lasted, and Hellanicus of Lesbos, who compiled more than two dozen histories from civic records, all of them now lost.

Advancing to the playoffs as winners of the second half, Houston beat Los Angeles in their first two playoff games at home, but the Dodgers took the next three in Los Angeles to advance to the NLCS.

On April 20, 2012, Torvalds was declared one of two winners of that year's Millennium Technology Prize, together with Shinya Yamanaka for what is widely described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the technology field.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Pindar records the victories of several athletes in his Victory Odes, and two inscribed stelae recently excavated from the Lykaian hippodrome provide information about the events, participants, and winners at the games.

The race has been held since 1861 ( see list of Melbourne Cup winners ) and was originally held over two miles ( about 3, 218 metres ) but following preparation for Australia's adoption of the metric system in the 1970s, the current race distance of 3, 200 metres was established in 1972.

The top team of each group, together with the second best team across all three groups, progress to two semi-finals, the winners of which face-off in the final for the trophy.

However, the Giants did produce two more Rookie of the Year winners ( Gary Matthews Sr. in 1973 and John Montefusco in 1975 ).

The three division winners from each conference would be ranked first through third and be given a week off, and two wild card teams from each conference, seeded fourth and fifth, would play a playoff game with the winner going on to play the first seeded team ( or, if they were in the same division, the second seed ).

The 49ers, an NFL-best 14 – 2 in the regular season and winners of the last two Super Bowls, were 6½ point favorites at kickoff.

The Swans ' 23 point lead and apparent match-winning lead mid-way through the second quarter further fuels the rivalry between the two teams as the Roos ran out eventual 43 point winners.

These two teams met in the first week of the 2008 finals, with Sydney running out convincing 35-point winners in front of the lowest ever finals crowd in Sydney, in a rain-affected match.

They are two time winners of the KNVB Cup and won the League twice in the era before professional football.

The members of each Worldcon are the members of WSFS and vote both to select the site of the Worldcon two years later and ( since 1955 ) to select the winners of the Hugo Awards, which are presented at the convention.

Thus, the Illustration judges are sometimes often unable to find three deserving winners, and only pick one or two.

At age 74 Eastwood became the oldest of eighteen directors to have directed two or more Best Picture winners.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

If nothing else, at least two good songs came out of the project, `` Out Of This World '' and `` June Comes Around Every Year ''.

About noon they came up with the enemy two miles from Lovejoy's Station and deployed.

She came to the ballroom and stood on the two carpeted steps that led down to it.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

Support came from academic and industrial groups in these two countries.

Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.

I waited a solid two hours before my man came out of the office building.

He was always well groomed and well tailored, and he had that rich man's look which was authentic enough and came from two good prep schools and a proper university.

It was blurred, after two hours of steady drinking, but the occasion of it came back to him.

Jim Landis' 380-foot home run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead, but Harmon Killebrew came back in the bottom of the first with his second homer in two days with the walking Bob Allison aboard.

Second, the `` potato chip industry '' has caught the fancy of investors lately, and until Morton Foods came along there were only two potato chip stocks -- Frito and H. W. Lay -- on the market.

As roommates, teammates, and home-run mates, Mantle, 29, who broke in with the Yankees ten years ago, and Maris, 26, who came to the Yankees from Kansas City two years ago, have strikingly similar backgrounds.

Read the next two verses: `` When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Last season, the Comedie's two principal experiments came to grief, and, in consequence, we can expect fairly soon to see still newer productions of Racine's `` Phedre '' and Moliere's `` School For Wives ''.

They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff before her dog kidnapping campaign came to an end.

When Ted Peate, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle.

The most important of these was the principle that came to be called Ampère ’ s law, which states that the mutual action of two lengths of current-carrying wire is proportional to their lengths and to the intensities of their currents.

Melisende did not step down when Baldwin came of age two years later, and by 1150 the two were becoming increasingly hostile towards each other.