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.
Orlando Magic get home court advantage due to better record
The New Orleans Saints in the NFC and the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC.
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finish with the best overall record
They are 17-15 during the regular season. They are 1-0 in the playoffs. Not much of a home field advantage.
The Lakers have home court advantage during the 2010 NBA Finals because they had a better regular-season record than the Celtics. Los Angeles was 57-25; Boston was 50-32.
In Major League Baseball, for the Division Series and the Championship Series, Home Field is decided according to a team's Regular Season record. The team with the better record is the team that gets the most home field games. For the World Series, the league that won the All Star Game is the one that wins the home field rights for the World Series. Games 1 and 2 of the World Series will be held at the home stadium with the home field advantage rights. Games 3, 4 and 5 will be held at the home stadium with the team that does not have the home field rights. Games 6 and 7 will be held at the stadium with the home stadium rights.
The Falcons already clinched their spot in the playoff last week in Minnesota. But they can clinch the #2 seed in the NFC playoffs with a victory over the Rams and a Carolina loss to the Saints where at home the Saints haven't loss a game. So the Falcons gets home-field advantage if all goes well.
One could say that their team had the home-field advantage when playing on their own court, based on the team's extreme familiarity with the space.
it's a format of games in the NBA final series in the playoff, the team with the home-court advantage play 2 games at home, than 3 games out of home, and the last two games (if needed)- play again at the home court.
the french because they had home court advantage.