At the end of the year, win-loss records determine league rankings or qualification into a playoff bracket.

The playoff bracket is not a fixed bracket.

A tournament mode permits players to take his team through the playoff bracket and into the Super Bowl.

That streak was broken when the team made it to the playoff bracket in 2005.

In the current system, eight clubs from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs, with separate playoff brackets for each conference.

Under this system, the conferences have separate playoff brackets.

Because it was the last Friday of the regular season the playoff brackets were scheduled to be published the next afternoon making a Saturday game impossible.

The Blazers can really work as an upset special in this spring's playoff bracket, and Wallace could be integral in those surprises.

They did not go into the season penciled into anybody's playoff bracket.

At this stage in the tournament, there was no playoff bracket.