Word: best-of-seven
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Orlando beats Chicago, 105-95, to take a 3-2 leads in the best-of-seven series. Page...
Chicago knotted its best-of-seven series with Orlando at 2-2 with yesterday's win. Page...
Forward Claude Lemieux, usually a defensive specialist, scored two first-period goals to help the New Jersey Devils take the opening game of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference playoffs from the Boston Bruins with surprising ease...
Basketball's first round is a best-of-five format, while hockey's is a best-of-seven, so the team with a better record going in has a much higher statistical percentage of winning. For example, if a team has a 60 percent chance of taking a one-game series, its chances to win a five-game series go up to more than 68 percent and more then 71 percent in a best-of-seven. Thus, a bad call or a bad break shouldn't be used as an excuse for a better team losing a series...
...first round, a best-of-five series, will feature the three division winners and the team with the next best record. The "wild-card" team will play the division winner with the best record; the two remaining division winners will compete in the other first-round series. The winners of each series will play each other in the customary best-of-seven League Championships, with the World Series following...