The entire month of October is loaded with baseball drama, but nothing drums up the chaos quite like the Wild Card Series. The introduction of the one-game wild-card format in 2012 gave MLB ...

In the third year of the expanded MLB postseason format, and just getting into the ... Last year's World Series featured two ...

The Denver Broncos and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the final teams to book a postseason spot, setting up the start of the ...

The NFL was able to expand from 12 to 14 by shrinking the number of first-round byes from four to two. Only the highest seed ...

How do you feel about MLB's current expanded playoff format after seeing it for multiple seasons? Brandon Hyde, Baltimore Orioles: I like the multiple games for the wild card. I think that's better.

There was not much tension during MLB’s Wild Card round of the Postseason, and viewership for the eight games slipped across ESPN’s networks. The eight-game slate, which saw each series end in ...