The teams the have the highest seeds get home field advantage. During the playoffs the teams with the highest seeding after the season gets home field advantage throughout the postseason. In the Super Bowl, home field advantage alternates each year between the NFC and the AFC.
Being in the playoffs, period. Before 1995 only the division leaders got playoff berths, wild card teams cannot possess home field advantage in their own league in the playoffs, just the world series, if their league won the all-star game.
Most teams get to make the playoffs at 8&8 if that is your question?
12 teams make it into the mls playoffs
12 teams
12 teams
During the playoffs, the football schedule is expanded to include Thursday and Saturday games, as well as Sunday. The league would need to schedule each conference game on a different day on that particular week. If both teams happened to have a regular season game against each other, since they share a field, there wouldn't really be a home field advantage.
Between two teams, to win a playoff you should win 4 games out of 7. But the entire playoffs is composed of 2 rounds and the conference finals. So a team needs to win 3 rounds with 7 games each.
With the addition of the Ottawa Redblacks in 2014, 3 teams will not make the playoffs in 2014.
16 teams. 8 from the western conference and 8 from the eastern conference.
Houston Texans has never made the NFL Playoffs.
Yes the NHL playoffs are fair. The top 8 teams in each conference make it to the playoffs. It doesn't matter what team your own, it just matters if you made the top 8 teams. The playoffs are completely fair.