How are the mlb playoffs formatted?

Question

how is it determined who goes against who in the mlb playoffs?

if u can give me a website with the brackets from last years playoffs that would help too

Answer 1

Two leagues (American and National League)

Both leagues' playoffs are set up identically.

Division winners advance (3 teams)
Of the non-division winnders, the team with the most wins gets the wild card berth (1 team)

Division winners are seeded based on win-loss record, whereas wildcard team is seeded fourh.

Typically, #4 vs. #1, and #3 vs. #2. Exception: If #1 and #4 are in same division, then its #4 vs. #2, #3 vs. #1

Answer 2

The playoffs are formatted to have the three championship division winning teams and wild card teams of each league. The wild card team must play the team with the best record of the other three playoff teams (unless it's a team within their division then they play the team with the second best record). The playoffs start at the Divisional series championships which are the best of 5, then they go to the League Championship Series between the two surviving teams of the divisional series champions and they go best of 7. The last games are of course the World Series which is best of seven.

Last year's playoffs were the St. Louis Cardinals playing the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets playing the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League division series. The AL had the New York Yankees playing the Detroit Tigers and the Oakland Athletics playing the Minnesota Twins.

The Cardinals of course played the Mets and won in 7 games. The Tigers swept the A's in their ALCS matchup.

The Cardinals were able to beat the Tigers in the World Series 4 games to 1 even though the Tigers had home field advantage which was won by the AL in the All-Star Game

Answer 3

The three division winners, per league, are seeded #1-3 based upon their regular season records/winning percentage. Tiebreaker methods exist (usually head-to-head record does it). The wildcard team, the second-place team with the best winning percentage, is seeded #4.

The first round, the Division Series, matches up seeds (1 and 4) and (2 and 3), except if #1 and #4 are from the same division. If that is the case, the pairings are (1 and 3) and (2 and 4).

Higher seed gets homefield in Games 1, 2, and 5 in the three-of-five Division Series.

Winning teams advance to the League Championship Series, which is four-of-seven. Higher seed gets homefield for Games 1, 2, 6, and 7.

(Note by now, the wildcard never has the homefield advantage. This is deliberate.)

LCS winning teams advance to the World Series, a four-of-seven format, with homefield (G 1, 2, 6, & 7 again) determined by the winning league of that season's All-Star Game. If it happens that a wildcard team is representing its league, that's just how it is. (In 2002, both league champions were wildcards.)

This page isn't exactly a bracket, but you can work it out easily enough: http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/