Sentence examples for playoff scheme from inspiring English sources

This season, the playoff scheme has been adjusted.

Under Mr. Obama's risky playoff scheme, college football would be about the pursuit of three perfect weeks.

Under the league's new playoff scheme (another year, another playoff gambit), the top three teams in each conference gain automatic berths and byes in the first round.

This playoff scheme was abandoned after the season.

Then there is Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, who (in a continuing effort by the GOP to bring back the Cold War) recently compared the BCS college football playoff scheme to "communism".

But in a larger scheme, the playoff issue signaled that the post-lockout cooperation between the two sides is slowly beginning to erode.

And nowhere has Kraft's maneuvering been more evident than in his handling of the ongoing Deflategate saga, in which Brady was accused by the N.F.L. of participating in a scheme to deflate footballs during the 2015 playoffs.

Mired in mediocrity, the Red Bulls find themselves precariously holding on to a wild-card playoff berth in the league's new 10-team postseason scheme.

Being on the playoff fringe isn't a great accomplishment in the grand scheme of the league, but the Cavs' competency is sudden and, on first glance, a bit baffling.

The harebrained scheme in the waning seconds of last year's second playoff game against D.C. United cost the Red Bulls a shot at advancing when Miller sent his left-footed attempt into the stands at Red Bull Arena.

But Manager Joe Girardi has a grand scheme to preserve Chamberlain's arm for the playoffs a month from now.