wild-card team

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team
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/tiːm/us
/tiːm/
a number of people or animals who do something together as ...
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The addition keeps the playoff format similar to the three-tiered postseason format used from 1995 through 2011, but adds a secondwild-cardteam.
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These four teams included the three division champions, and a fourthwild-cardteam.
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Previously, awild-cardteamcould not face the champion of its own division.
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The top-seededwild-cardteamwas paired with the remaining team that was not chosen as an opponent by the three division winners.
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They also made the playoffs for the first time since the 1985 season, capturing the fifth seed as awild-cardteam.
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This event figured into the decision in 1970 to include awild-cardteamin the playoff tournament.
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Awild-cardteammust surrender home-field advantage the first two rounds of the playoffs.
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Thewild-cardteamwould be the team with the best record in each league of all the teams that did not win their division.
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The league championship was determined by a two-round, four-team playoff among the winners of the three divisions plus awild-cardteam.
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Thus, the top seeded division winner played thewild-cardteam, and the remaining two division winners played at the home stadium of the better seed.
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