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What does this description of a baseball game mean?
The date of the game is set, and with Atlanta's win, their presence is assured. What is not yet known is their opponent or the location. It's just trying to show the different possibilities.
As a ...
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Why does NFL have games on Thursdays?
This is due to the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961: the NFL is legally forbidden to televise any matches on a Friday night within 75 miles of any high school during the high school regular season, and ...
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Why aren't UEFA Champions Leage group matches synchronized?
The relevant rules are in 2019/2020 UEFA Champions League Regulations:
Article 23 Confirmation of fixtures and automatic reversals
23.01 The venues, dates (in accordance with the calendar in Annex C)...
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How do I schedule 12 teams in a championship where 3-4 teams play at the same time in a round, while allowing 1 loss to still be the champion?
This is almost exactly how Vampire the Eternal Struggle, the TCG plays its tournaments, although they prefer players per "table". In this page vekn.net/downloads you can download "the Archon v1.5e", ...
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Opening Day Baseball Location
As you can imagine, scheduling an MLB season is not the easiest task to accomplish. Especially with all the different specifications enacted by the league and the player's union. More or less, there ...
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Why do five Week 15 NFL games have a start time of TBD?
The NFL has used a limited flex schedule for several years, with the ability to change a Sunday day game to Sunday evening. However those games are usually (always?) announced with the initially ...
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Why is the NFL considering an 18-game season?
It's all about money: teams make money from fans buying tickets, from fans paying for parking, from fans buying beer, from fans buying hotdogs, from fans buying nachos, from fans doing everything else ...
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How do I schedule 12 teams in a championship where 3-4 teams play at the same time in a round, while allowing 1 loss to still be the champion?
It seems that rankade, our ranking system for sports, games, and more, fits your needs.
It's free to use and it's designed to manage rankings (and stats, including matchup stats, and more) for small ...
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Spanish Football Calendar
As you can see from La Liga website, there are no cup matches in March. And generally, cup matches never clash with La Liga matches, and the only instance when La Liga games are rescheduled due to ...
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Is it possible for an NFL team to go 20-0?
Until the 2020 season it was impossible for an NFL team to go 20-0. But as of 2020 it is possible!
This is because starting with the 2020-21 season the playoffs have been exapnded by 2 teams to 14 ...
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What would prevent the NFL from expanding to a 19 game season?
At the moment (2017) the agreement of the NFL Player's Association (NFLPA) is the only roadblock that would preclude changes in the structure of the season.
The reason is that the union negotiated ...
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Why is Olympic Archery 1-on-1 rather than all-at-once?
In Archery, the participants have to hit the target to get Highest Points, without competitive strategies or competitive tactics.
This is only true of the first round. In the first round, the ...
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What happens to an NFL game that is started and suspended?
This is covered by Rule 17 "Emergencies, Unfair Acts" in the 2022 NFL Rulebook; the crucial bits are:
ARTICLE 8. INTERRUPTED GAME. If, under emergency circumstances, an interrupted regular-...
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How often does the IFSC actually hold a world championship?
You can currently find the IFSC rules on the official website, the current version as well as the 2018 version.
The first point in the introduction of chapter "world championship" states in the 2018 ...
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Tennis ATP World Tour Finals Scheduling
First, a minor correction in OP's understanding of the grouping In the ATP World Tour Finals with regards to the first two seeds.
According to The 2017 ATP Official
Rulebook (Page 42):
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How many games does the UNC basketball team play as part of their regular season schedule?
The game at the University of Hawaii (not Chaminade) on Nov. 18 is likely the source of the 32nd game. From the 2015-16 bylaws (the most recent I can find):
17.3.5.3 Annual Exemptions
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How many games does the UNC basketball team play as part of their regular season schedule?
It looks like the game against Chaminade is exempt from the 31 game maximum due to an NCAA rule about playing games in Hawaii.
Here is a link giving information about that.
The opener against ...
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Why Olympics don't follow exact time to conduct a game?
For all major badminton tournaments, not just the Olympics, they only use a limited number of courts for major games (e.g semifinals and finals). As a result the scheduling works in a way for example ...
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How is the "best loser" determined in football?
It would have been better if there was predetermined criteria to select best loser. As there is no indication of that criteria, selecting best loser can be done in following ways:
Taking FKL Cup - ...
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How is the "best loser" determined in football?
Ideally, the rules of the tournament should be defined before it starts, but now that we're here:
In my opinion, the best loser out of 3 teams lost in the quarter-finals (or 1/6 finals in your case) ...
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How is the "best loser" determined in football?
In my opinion you have to set quarterfinals with the best 6 teams as following:
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How will the end season playoffs work for 2020-21 season?
The 2020-2021 season's playoffs format is gonna be unique given the circumstances. The top 4 team in each division make it to the playoffs, where they play against each other based on rankings. That ...
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What is a bye week in the NFL and what are some important things to know regarding this?
If you look at the NFL schedule of any of the recent years, you'll notice there are 17 weeks of regular season, while teams only play 16 games. This is because each team gets 1 week off during the ...
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Why is the NFL considering an 18-game season?
It comes down to money and revenue.
Now you might ask if more games bring in more money for the NFL, how come the number of games hadn't increased years ago? That's because of the current CBA signed ...
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Why is Olympic Archery 1-on-1 rather than all-at-once?
The answer, as with why they organize any sport in any fashion, is excitement, and history.
Archery was removed from the Olympic Games for several decades, due to lack of consistency in the rules1. ...
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Why do NBA Western Conference teams play against Eastern conference during season
The NBA has always had inter-conference play, as do most sports leagues other than Major League Baseball. Early in the NBA's existence, there were relatively few teams, so inter-division play was a ...
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What is a bye week in the NFL and what are some important things to know regarding this?
The bye week is a 'rest' week where a team doesn't have a game scheduled. In the modern day, that began in 1990 to allow an additional week for TV advertising - not to give people a rest, as is often ...
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Why aren't UEFA Champions Leage group matches synchronized?
Essentialy for TV programming grid
In winter for east european countries like Russia, they play earlier so that the temperatures are not too low
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How many tournaments is a professional tennis player required to play in a year?
According to the ATP world tour ranking FAQ (i.e. for men's tennis), a player's world ranking is calculated from:
The four Grand Slams
The eight World Masters 1000 tournaments
The ATP World Tour ...
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How is the "best loser" determined in football?
I would say the third team, since they lost on a penalty shootout, thus implying that they were able to hold on to a draw throughout regulation and extra time. As for the other two teams, I infer from ...
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