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| Brackets are most commonly found in profesional sporting leagues. Often, at the end of the regular season, the league holds a post season tournament (most commonly called a play-off) to determine which team is the best out of all of the other teams in the league. This is done because often in profesional sports there are at least two different confrances (like the American Football Confrance and the National Football Confrance in the NFL), and teams mostly play other teams in their own confrance. | |||
| When there are only two different confrances, there are two sides of the bracket. One confrance is on one side, while the other confrance is on the oppisite side. Teams that qualify for the post-season tournament only compeate against teams in their own confrance, untill only one team from each confrance remains. These two teams, called the confrance champions, play each other to determine the best in the league. In other leagues, like the NHL, have two confrances but are devided into divisions, usually by reagion. In the post-season tournament, only the teams with the best records qualify, even if you were the division leader. | |||
| Most profesional post-season tournaments are in single elimination seeded format. If a bye is required, the top seeded teams usually get the buys. There is usually no third place match to seperate the third and fourth place teams. | |||
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A bracket is the diagrammatic representation of the series of games played during a tournament, named as such because it appears to be a large number of interconnected (punctuational) brackets.
There are several kinds of brackets, adapted to different types of tournaments. The most common are:
- Single elimination brackets (tennis, basketball)
- Double elimination brackets (9-ball)
The "art" of filling in brackets, especially in NCAA basketball, is referred to as bracketology.
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Brackets are most commonly found in profesional sporting leagues. Often, at the end of the regular season, the league holds a post season tournament (most commonly called a play-off) to determine which team is the best out of all of the other teams in the league. This is done because often in profesional sports there are at least two different confrances (like the American Football Confrance and the National Football Confrance in the NFL), and teams mostly play other teams in their own confrance.
When there are only two different confrances, there are two sides of the bracket. One confrance is on one side, while the other confrance is on the oppisite side. Teams that qualify for the post-season tournament only compeate against teams in their own confrance, untill only one team from each confrance remains. These two teams, called the confrance champions, play each other to determine the best in the league. In other leagues, like the NHL, have two confrances but are devided into divisions, usually by reagion. In the post-season tournament, only the teams with the best records qualify, even if you were the division leader.
Most profesional post-season tournaments are in single elimination seeded format. If a bye is required, the top seeded teams usually get the buys. There is usually no third place match to seperate the third and fourth place teams.
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