document_title: NFL playoffs

question_text: how many wild card teams make the nfl playoffs

text: NFL playoffs

text: Current playoff system[edit]

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Schedule for the NFL playoffs

Season
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20
2020–21

Wild Card
Jan 6–7
Jan 5–6
Jan 4–5
Jan 9–10

Divisional
Jan 13–14
Jan 12–13
Jan 11–12
Jan 16–17

Conference
Jan 21
Jan 20
Jan 19
Jan 24

Super Bowl
LII
Feb 4
LIII
Feb 3
LIV
Feb 2
LV
Feb 7

text: The 32-team National Football League is divided into two conferences, American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC), each with 16 teams. Since 2002, each conference has been further divided into four divisions of four teams each. The tournament brackets are made up of six teams from each of the league's two conferences, following the end of the regular season. Qualification into the playoffs works as follows:[1]

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The 4 division champions from each conference (the team in each division with the best overall record), which are seeded 1 through 4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record.
Two wild-card qualifiers from each conference (the two teams with the best overall records of all remaining teams in the conference), which are seeded 5 and 6.

text: The names of the first two playoff rounds date back to the postseason format that was first used in 1978, when the league added a second wild-card team to each conference. The first round of the playoffs is dubbed the wild-card playoffs (or wild-card weekend). In this round, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. There are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference receive a bye in the first round, which entitles these teams to automatic advancement to the second round, the divisional playoffs, where they face the wild-card weekend survivors. The 1 seed has home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system. The number 1 seed will host the worst surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5 or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4 or 5).[2] The two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games then meet in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games (hosted by the higher seed), with the winners of those contests going on to face one another in the Super Bowl. Only twice since 1990 has neither a number one-seeded team nor a number two-seeded team hosted a conference championship game (in the 2006 AFC Championship the #3 seeded Indianapolis Colts hosted the #4 seeded New England Patriots with the Colts winning 38–34 and the 2008 NFC Championship the #4 seeded Arizona Cardinals hosting the #6 seeded Philadelphia Eagles with the Cardinals winning 32–25).

text: If teams are tied (having the same regular season won-lost-tied record), the playoff seeding is determined by a set of tie-breaking rules.[1]

text: One potential disadvantage is that the two teams with the best records in a conference could play each other before the conference championship if they are in the same division. The better team would be seeded #1, while the lesser team would be seeded #5 as the top wild-card team, and as shown in the diagram, it is possible for the #1 division winner to play the top wild-card team in the divisional round. (See also the "Modification proposals" section below.)

text: The New York Giants and New York Jets have shared the same home stadium since 1984 (first Giants Stadium from 1984 to 2009, and MetLife Stadium since 2010). Thus, if both teams need to host playoff games on the same weekend, they are always required to play on separate days, even during the Conference Championship round. The only time such a scheduling conflict has occurred was during wild-card weekend in 1985, when only 10 teams qualified for the postseason and there were only two wild-card games (See the "History" section below): Instead of playing both wild-card games on the same day, as was the case when the 10-team system was used from 1978 to 1989, the New England Patriots defeated the Jets, 26–14, on Saturday, December 28, before the Giants beat the San Francisco 49ers, 17–3, on the following day.

text: Breaking ties[edit]

text: Often, teams will finish a season with identical records. It becomes necessary, therefore, to devise means to break these ties, either to determine which teams will qualify for the playoffs, or to determine seeding in the playoff tournament. The rules below are applied in order until the tie is broken. If three teams are tied for one playoff spot and the third team is eliminated at any step, the tie breaker reverts to step one for the remaining two teams. If multiple playoff spots are at stake, the rules are applied in order until the first team qualifies, then the process is started again for the remaining teams.

text: The tie-breaking rules have changed over the years, with the most recent changes being made in 2002 to accommodate the league's realignment into eight four-team divisions; record vs. common opponents and most of the other criteria involving wins and losses were moved up higher in the tie-breaking list, while those involving compiled stats such as points for and against were moved to the bottom.[1][3]

text: The current tiebreakers are as follows, with coin tosses used if all of the criteria fail:[4]

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Divisional tiebreakers
Conference tiebreakers

Head-to-head (best won-lost-tied percentage in games between the clubs).
Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the division.
Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games (games played against the same opponents).
Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
Strength of victory (the combined won-lost-tied percentage of all the teams that a club has defeated).
Strength of schedule (the combined won-lost-tied percentage of all the teams that a club has played against).
Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best net points in common games.
Best net points in all games.
Best net touchdowns in all games.

Apply division tie breaker to eliminate all but the highest ranked club in each division prior to proceeding to step 2.
Head-to-head, if applicable. (For ties among three or more teams, this step is only applied if there is a head-to-head sweep; i.e., if one club has defeated each of the others or if one club has lost to each of the others.)
Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games, minimum of four.
Strength of victory (record of all the teams they defeated that season).
Strength of schedule (record of all the teams they played that season).
Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best net points in conference games.
Best net points in all games.
Best net touchdowns in all games.

text: Overtime rules[edit]

text: The NFL introduced overtime for any divisional tiebreak games beginning in 1940, and for championship games beginning in 1946. The first postseason game to be played under these rules was the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants (the so-called "Greatest Game Ever Played"). Overtime under the original format was sudden death, the first team to score would be declared the winner.

text: In March 2010, the NFL amended its rules for postseason overtime, with the rule being extended into the regular season in March 2012. If a team scores a touchdown, or if the defense scores a safety on its first possession, it is declared the winner. If it scores a field goal on its first possession, however, it then kicks off to the opposing team, which has an opportunity to score; if the score is tied again after that possession, true sudden death rules apply and whoever scores next will win.

text: Since postseason games cannot end in a tie, unlike the preseason or regular season, additional overtime periods are played as necessary until a winner is determined. Furthermore, all clock rules apply as if a game had started over. Therefore, if the first overtime period ends with the score still tied, the teams switch ends of the field prior to double overtime. If a game was still tied with two minutes to go in double overtime, there would be a two-minute warning (but not during the first overtime period as in the regular season). And if it were still tied at the end of double overtime, there would be a kickoff to start triple overtime.[5] Although a contest could theoretically last indefinitely, or last multiple overtime periods like several National Hockey League postseason games, no NFL playoff game has ever gone into triple-overtime. The longest NFL game played to date is 82 minutes, 40 seconds: Miami Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian made the winning 37-yard field goal after 7:40 of double-overtime to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 27–24, in the 1971–72 NFL playoffs on December 25, 1971.[6]

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Playoff games that went at least into double overtime[7]

Length of game
Date
Away team
Score
Home team
Winning score

82:40
December 25, 1971
Miami Dolphins
27–24
Kansas City Chiefs
Garo Yepremian 37-yard field goal

77:54†
December 23, 1962
Dallas Texans
20–17
Houston Oilers
Tommy Brooker 25-yard field goal

77:02
January 3, 1987
New York Jets
20–23
Cleveland Browns
Mark Moseley 27-yard field goal

76:42
January 12, 2013
Baltimore Ravens
38–35
Denver Broncos
Justin Tucker 47-yard field goal

75:43
December 24, 1977
Oakland Raiders
37–31
Baltimore Colts
Dave Casper 10-yard touchdown pass from Ken Stabler

75:10
January 10, 2004
Carolina Panthers
29–23
St. Louis Rams
Steve Smith 69-yard touchdown pass from Jake Delhomme

† AFL game prior to the AFL–NFL merger.

text: Playoff and championship history[edit]

text: The NFL's method for determining its champions has changed over the years.

text: Early years[edit]

text: From the league's founding in 1920 until 1932, there was no scheduled championship game. From 1920–1923, the championship was awarded to a team by a vote of team owners at the annual owners' meeting. From 1924–1932, the team having the best winning percentage was awarded the championship (the de facto standard owners had been using anyway). As each team played a different number of games, simply counting wins and losses would have been insufficient. Additionally, tie games were not counted in the standings in figuring winning percentage (under modern rules, ties count as ½ win and ½ loss). There was a head-to-head tiebreaker, which also was weighted toward the end of the season: for two teams that played each other twice, each winning once, the team winning the second game was determined to be the champion (the criteria used to decide the 1921 title).[8][9]

text: 1932 playoff game[edit]

text: In 1932, the Chicago Bears (6–1–6) and the Portsmouth Spartans (6–1–4) were tied at the end of the season with the identical winning percentage of .857 (the Green Bay Packers (10–3–1) had more wins, but a lower winning percentage (.769) as calculated under the rules of the day, which omitted ties). An additional game was therefore needed to determine a champion. It was agreed that the game would be played in Chicago at Wrigley Field, but severe winter weather and fear of a low turnout forced the game to be moved indoors to Chicago Stadium. The game was played under modified rules on a shortened 80-yard dirt field, and the Bears won with a final score of 9–0.[8][10] As a result of the game, the Bears had the better winning percentage (.875) and won the league title. The loss gave the Spartans a final winning percentage of .750, and moved them to third place behind the Packers. While there is no consensus that this game was a real "championship" game (or even a playoff game), it generated considerable interest and led to the creation of the official NFL Championship Game in 1933.[10]

text: Before the Super Bowl[edit]

text: Given the interest of the impromptu "championship game", and the desire of the league to create a more equitable means of determining a champion, the league divided into two conferences beginning in 1933. The winners of each conference (the first place teams in the conferences) met in the NFL Championship Game after the season. There was no tie-breaker system in place; any ties in the final standings of either conference resulted in a playoff game being played in 1941, 1943, 1947, two games in 1950, and one each in 1952, 1957, 1958, and 1965. Since the venue and date of the championship game were often not known until the last game of the season had been played, these playoff games sometimes resulted in delaying the end of the season by one week.

text: The playoff structure used from 1933 to 1966 was considered inequitable by some because of the number of times it failed to match the teams with the two best records in the championship game, as only the conference winners would qualify for playoff contention. Four times between 1950 and 1966 (in 1951, 1956, 1960, and 1963) the team with the second-best win-loss record did not qualify for the playoffs while the team with the best record in the other conference, but only the third-best in the league, would advance to the championship game.

text: For the 1967 NFL season, the NFL expanded to 16 teams, and split its two conferences into two divisions each, with four teams in each division. The four division champions would advance to the NFL playoffs, and to remain on schedule, a tie-breaker system was introduced. The first round of playoffs determined the conference's champion and its representative in the NFL Championship Game, played the following week. Thus, 1967 was the first season there was a scheduled playoff tournament to determine the teams to play for the NFL Championship.[11]

text: During the three years (1967–69) that this playoff structure was in effect, there was one use of the tie-breaker system. In 1967, the Los Angeles Rams and Baltimore Colts ended the season tied at 11–1–2 for the lead in the Coastal Division. The Colts came into the last game of the season undefeated, but were beaten by the Rams. Though the Colts shared the best win/loss record in the NFL that year, they failed to advance to the playoffs while three other teams with worse records won their divisions. This event figured into the decision in 1970 to include a wild-card team in the playoff tournament after the AFL–NFL merger.

text: During the 1960s, a third-place playoff game was played in Miami, called the Playoff Bowl. It was contested in early January following the 1960–69 seasons. Though official playoff games at the time they were played, the NFL now officially classifies these ten games (and statistics) as exhibitions, not as playoff games.[12]

text: AFL and AAFC playoffs[edit]

text: Since it would eventually merge with the NFL, the history of the AFL's playoff system merits some explanation. For the 1960–68 seasons, the AFL used the two-divisional format identical to the NFL to determine its champion. There was no tie-breaker system in place, so ties atop the Eastern Division final standings in 1963 and Western Division in 1968 necessitated playoff games to determine each division's representative in the championship.

text: For the 1969 season, a first round was added whereby each division winner played the second-place team from the other division. The winners of these games met in the AFL Championship Game.[11] In the only year of this format, the AFL Champion Kansas City Chiefs were the second-place team in the Western division. The Chiefs went on to win Super Bowl IV that season, thus becoming the first non-division winner to win a Super Bowl.[13]

text: During its brief history, the AAFC, which would merge into the NFL for the 1950 season, used an identical playoff format to the NFL from 1946 to 1948. In 1949 (its last year), the AAFC would merge its two conferences when one of its teams folded, and use a four-team playoff system. In 1948, the aforementioned issue of playoff inequity came into play when the San Francisco 49ers would miss the playoffs with a 12–2 record; they were in the same conference as the 14–0 Cleveland Browns, who would go on to win the Western Conference and then the AAFC's championship game against the 7–7 Buffalo Bills (AAFC).

text: Super Bowl and merger[edit]

text: The Super Bowl began as an inter-league championship game between the AFL and NFL, an idea first proposed by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt. This compromise was the result of pressures the upstart AFL was placing on the older NFL. The success of the rival league would eventually lead to a full merger of the two leagues.[8]

text: From the 1966 season to the 1969 season (Super Bowls I–IV) the game featured the champions of the AFL and NFL. Since the 1970 season, the game has featured the champions of the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

text: When the leagues merged in 1970, the new NFL (with 26 teams) reorganized into two conferences of three divisions each. From the 1970 season to the 1977 season, four teams from each conference (for a total of eight teams) qualified for the playoffs each year. These four teams included the three division champions, and a fourth wild-card team.[14]

text: Originally, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation.[15] From 1970 to 1974, the divisional playoff round rotated which of the three division champions would have home field advantage, with the wild-card teams and the teams they would face in the divisional playoff game would never have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Starting in 1970, the divisional playoff games consisted of the AFC Central champions and the NFC West champions playing their games on the road. Then in 1971 it rotated to the AFC East champions and the NFC East champions playing their games on the road. In the 1972 divisional playoff games, the AFC West champions and the NFC Central champions were the visiting teams. And 1973 it would start all over with the AFC Central and NFC West again, and so on.

text: The rotation system led to several playoff inequities, such as:

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In 1971, the teams with the two best records in each conference met in the divisional round.
In 1972, the Dolphins had to take their perfect record to Three Rivers Stadium to face the Pittsburgh Steelers, who went 11-3, in the AFC championship game.
In 1973, the Cowboys finished 10-4 but hosted two 12-2 teams, the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota.

text: The league did not institute a seeding system for the playoffs until 1975, where the surviving clubs with the higher seeds were made the home teams for each playoff round.[8] Thus, the top seeded division winner played the wild-card team, and the remaining two division winners played at the home stadium of the better seed (which meant that the lowest-seeded division winner had to open the postseason on the road). However, two teams from the same division could not meet prior to the conference championship game.[16] Thus, there would be times when the pairing in the divisional playoff round would be the 1 seed vs. the 3 seed and 2 vs. 4.

text: Expansion[edit]

text: Following an expansion of the regular season from 14 to 16 games in the 1978 season, the league added one more wild-card team for each conference. The two wild-card teams played the week before the division winners. The winner of this game played the top seeded division winner as was done from 1970–1977. The league continued to prohibit intra-divisional games in the divisional playoffs, but allowed such contests in the wild-card round.[17] This ten-team playoff format was used through the 1989 season.[14] Under this system, the Oakland Raiders became the first wild-card team to win a Super Bowl following the 1980 season.[18]

text: During the strike-shortened 1982 season, only nine regular season games were played, and a modified playoff format was instituted. Divisional play was ignored (there were some cases where division rivals had both games wiped out by the strike, although each division ultimately sent at least one team to the playoffs), and the top eight teams from each conference (based on W-L-T record) were advanced to the playoffs. As a result, this became the first time that teams with losing records qualified for the playoffs: the 4–5 Cleveland Browns and the 4–5 Detroit Lions.[19]

text: Several times between 1978–89, the two wild-card games had to be played on different days. Normally they both would be held on Sunday. In 1983 and 1988, the games were split between Saturday and Monday because Sunday was Christmas, and the NFL had avoided playing on that day at the time. In 1984, both games were played in the Pacific Time Zone, so they had to be played on Saturday and Sunday to accommodate for time differences. In 1985, both the New York Giants and Jets hosted wild-card games. As they have shared a home stadium since 1984, the games had to be played on different days.

text: For the 1990 season, a third wild-card team for each conference was added, expanding the playoffs to the current twelve teams. The lowest-seeded division winner was then "demoted" to the wild-card weekend. Also, the restrictions on intra-divisional games during the divisional playoffs were removed.[20]

text: The 2001 season became the first time that playoff games were played in prime time.[21] Thus, the league no longer had the same restrictions like in 1984 as to when to schedule games in the Pacific Time Zone.

text: The 1990 format continued until the 2002 expansion and reorganization into eight divisions. In this current format, as explained above, the 4 division winners and 2 wild cards are seeded 1–6, with the top 2 seeds receiving byes, and the highest seed in each round guaranteed to play the lowest seed. Also, seeds determine the home-field advantage.[14]

text: Modification proposals[edit]

text: There are some limitations that exist in the current 12-team playoff system. Since being a division winner is a guaranteed playoff berth, there have been many cases in which a team that wins a "weak" division either barely has a winning record or has a .500 or losing record altogether (such as the 2010 Seattle Seahawks). At the same time, since a division winner is seeded higher than the wild cards, non-division winners may end up playing a road game during Wild Card Weekend against a team with an inferior record, or may end up outright missing the playoffs. And going on the road during the first postseason round does not guarantee success: the first time that all four road teams won during Wild Card Weekend occurred during the 2015–16 season.[22]

text: This issue has become more prevalent since the aforementioned 2002 realignment. There are three notable examples in which a division winner with a .500 or sub-.500 record ended up winning a playoff game against a team with a superior record:

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In the 2008–09 season, the San Diego Chargers clinched the AFC West with only an 8–8 record, and hosted the 12–4 Indianapolis Colts in the wild-card round, while the New England Patriots failed to even secure a wild-card spot at 11–5. The Chargers then went on to defeat the Colts in that playoff game.
In the 2010–11 season, the aforementioned 2010 Seahawks won the NFC West with a 7–9 record, hosting and defeating the 11–5 New Orleans Saints. Failing to make the playoffs were the New York Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, both with 10–6 records, due to losing tiebreakers for the sixth seed to the Green Bay Packers, who went on to become the first sixth-seeded team from the NFC to win the Super Bowl. The 2010 Seahawks were the first team in NFL history to win both a division championship and a playoff game with a losing regular season record. They currently have the lowest win percentage of any team to ever make the playoffs.
In the 2014–15 season, the Carolina Panthers won the NFC South with a 7–8–1 record. By week 16, no team in that division could finish with more than seven wins. The Panthers then defeated the Atlanta Falcons, who were 6–9 and undefeated within the division entering the game, for the division title. They hosted and defeated the 11–5 Arizona Cardinals in the wild card round. The best team to miss the playoffs that year was the Philadelphia Eagles, who finished 10–6. To date, the 2014 Panthers and 2010 Seahawks are the only two teams to win a division, and a playoff game, with a losing record.

text: As a result of this seeding issue, frequent calls have been made to modify the playoff format even further. One proposal has been to expand the playoffs to 14 teams. Proponents of expansion note the increased revenue that could be gained from an additional two playoff games. They also note that the 12-team playoff system was implemented when the league only had 28 teams and six divisions (of 4 to 5 teams each). The opposition to such a move notes that an expansion of the playoffs would "water down" the field by giving access to lower-caliber teams. Opponents to expansion further point to the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs where more than half of the teams qualify for the postseason, and there is often a decreased emphasis on regular season performance as a result.[23][24]

text: After the 2007 playoffs saw two wild-card teams with better records (Jacksonville Jaguars and eventual Super Bowl XLII champions New York Giants) go on the road to defeat division winners (Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, respectively) during wild-card weekend, the NFL explored another proposal to change the playoffs so that the team with the better record would host the game, even if that meant a division winner went on the road. The NFL's Competition Committee withdrew the request later that offseason,[25] with Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay mentioning that they wanted the idea to simply get a discussion going. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was a strong opponent of the rule change, believing that "if you win a division, it's good for your fans to know you will have a home game."[25]

text: Just before the 2010–11 Seahawks-Saints playoff game, McKay wanted to revisit the previous proposal to reseed teams during wild-card weekend.[26] However, sportswriter Peter King wrote that he believed league owners were still hesitant on implementing any such changes at this time due to the then-pending 2011 work stoppage, the proposals to extend the regular season from 16 to 18 games and how it will impact the postseason, and the simple fact that not enough teams have been seriously disadvantaged by the current format.[27]

text: In October 2013, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced plans to revisit the idea to expand the playoffs to 14 teams, with the increased revenue gained from the two additional postseason games being used to offset plans to shorten the preseason.[28] The two extra Wild Card games could also be scheduled on the weekend, creating triple-headers on both Saturday and Sunday. Goodell then suggested that they might instead be played on Friday and/or Monday, which may eventually cause scheduling conflicts with games of the new College Football Playoff.[29]

text: The 14-team playoff proposal remained tabled until December 2014, when no team in the NFC South could finish better than .500; Goodell stated that the league would vote on it at the March 2015 Owners' Meetings. One proposed 14-club system includes giving first-round byes for the teams with the best record in each conference, two division champions in each conference receiving home games, and the remaining eight teams would be seeded by win-loss record.[30] However, by the following February 2015, the Washington Post reported that support among team owners has eroded, and league leaders expressed reluctance to make a change until the one-year extension with CBS to televise Thursday Night Football expired at the end of the 2015 season.[31] The proposal lost all interest; today, it has never been raised. It is likely that movement won't be made on expanding either the playoffs or the regular season until at least 2020, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires.[32]

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Wild-card playoff games in which a division winner defeated a wild-card team with a better regular season record (2002–present)

Season
Wild-card team
Regular season record
Division winner
Regular season record
Score
Final postseason result of division winner

2002–03
Indianapolis Colts
10–6
New York Jets
9–7
Jets, 41–0
Lost divisional playoffs vs. Oakland Raiders 30–10

2003–04
none

2004–05
none

2005–06
Jacksonville Jaguars
12–4
New England Patriots
10–6
Patriots, 28–3
Lost divisional playoffs vs. Denver Broncos 27–13

2006–07
none

2007–08
none

2008–09
Indianapolis Colts
12–4
San Diego Chargers
8–8*
Chargers, 23–17 (OT)
Lost divisional playoffs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers 24–35

Atlanta Falcons
11–5
Arizona Cardinals
9–7
Cardinals, 30–24
Won divisional playoffs vs. Carolina Panthers 33–13
Won conference championship vs. Philadelphia Eagles 32–25
Lost Super Bowl XLIII vs. Pittsburgh Steelers 27–23

2009–10
Green Bay Packers
11–5
Arizona Cardinals
10–6
Cardinals, 51–45 (OT)
Lost divisional playoffs vs. New Orleans Saints 45–14

2010–11
New Orleans Saints
11–5
Seattle Seahawks
7–9*
Seahawks, 41–36
Lost divisional playoffs vs. Chicago Bears 35–24

2011–12
Pittsburgh Steelers
12–4
Denver Broncos
8–8*
Broncos, 29–23 (OT)
Lost divisional playoffs vs. New England Patriots 45–10

Atlanta Falcons
10–6
New York Giants
9–7
Giants, 24–2
Won divisional playoffs vs. Green Bay Packers 37–20
Won conference championship vs. San Francisco 49ers 20–17
Won Super Bowl XLVI vs. New England Patriots 21–17

2012–13
Indianapolis Colts
11–5
Baltimore Ravens
10–6
Ravens, 24–9
Won divisional playoffs vs. Denver Broncos 38–35 (2 OT)
Won conference vs. New England Patriots 28–13
Won Super Bowl XLVII vs. San Francisco 49ers 34–31

2013–14
none

2014–15
Arizona Cardinals
11–5
Carolina Panthers
7–8–1*
Panthers, 27–16
Lost divisional playoffs vs. Seattle Seahawks 31–17

2015–16
none

2016–17
Oakland Raiders
12–4
Houston Texans
9–7
Texans, 27–14
Lost divisional playoffs vs. New England Patriots 34–16

New York Giants
11–5
Green Bay Packers
10–6
Packers, 38–13
Won divisional playoffs vs. Dallas Cowboys 34–31
Lost conference championship vs. Atlanta Falcons 44–21

2017–18
none

* – .500 or losing record
Source: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/

text: NFL playoff appearances[edit]

text: Correct as of 2017–18 NFL playoffs

text: *Tiebreaker playoff appearances based on the team with the more recent playoff appearance.

text: Appearances by active teams[edit]

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Team
Appearances[33]

Green Bay Packers
32

Dallas Cowboys
32

New York Giants
32

Pittsburgh Steelers
31

Minnesota Vikings
29

Cleveland/St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams
28

Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts
27

San Francisco 49ers
25

Chicago Bears
25[A]

Philadelphia Eagles
25

Boston/New England Patriots
25[B]

Washington Redskins
24

Cleveland Browns
24[C][D]

Miami Dolphins
23

Denver Broncos
22

Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders
22[B]

Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans
22[B]

Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs
20[B]

San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers
18[B]

Buffalo Bills
18[B]

Portsmouth Spartans/Detroit Lions
17[A]

Seattle Seahawks
16

Cincinnati Bengals
14

New York Jets
14[B]

Atlanta Falcons
14

New Orleans Saints
11

Chicago/St.Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals
10

Baltimore Ravens
10[D]

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
10

Carolina Panthers
8

Jacksonville Jaguars
7

Houston Texans
4

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^ Jump up to: a b Does not include the appearance in the 1932 NFL Playoff Game. The NFL officially records it as an additional regular season game[34]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Includes American Football League postseason appearances. Per the conditions of the AFL–NFL merger, all history, playoffs and records of the AFL were incorporated into the NFL.
Jump up ^ The NFL does not officially recognize the Cleveland's Browns' playoff appearances and records from 1946 to 1949 when they were part of the All-America Football Conference.
^ Jump up to: a b The Baltimore Ravens were originally the Cleveland Browns, and moved to Baltimore in 1996. Due to an agreement with the city of Cleveland that allowed the club to move, the Browns name, colors, and team history/records were left for a new Cleveland Browns team while the team, personnel, and staff of the old Browns team were allowed to move to Baltimore. As such, the Ravens are considered to have begun play in 1996 while the current Cleveland Browns are considered to have been founded in 1950, were inactive from 1996–98, and resumed play as a new team in 1999.

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document_title: Wisdom of the Crowd

question_text: cast of tv show wisdom of the crowd

question_tokens: cast of tv show wisdom of the crowd

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text: Wisdom of the Crowd

text: Cast and characters[edit]

text:
Jeremy Piven as Jeffrey Tanner[4]
Richard T. Jones as Detective Tommy Cavanaugh[5]
Blake Lee as Josh Novak[6]
Natalia Tena as Sara Morton[7]
Monica Potter as Alex Hale[8]
Jake Matthews as Tariq Bakari[7]

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text: Episodes[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
"Pilot"
Adam Davidson
Ted Humphrey
October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)
8.83[9]

2
"In the Wild"
Adam Davidson
Ted Humphrey
October 8, 2017 (2017-10-08)
7.84[10]

3
"Machine Learning"
Jon Amiel
Matthew Lau & Aiyana White
October 15, 2017 (2017-10-15)
8.04[11]

4
"User Bias"
Charles Beeson
Kim Shumway & Patrick Moss
October 22, 2017 (2017-10-22)
7.70[12]

5
"Clear History"
Deran Sarafian
David Appelbaum & Erica Saleh
October 29, 2017 (2017-10-29)
6.76[13]

6
"Trojan Horse"
Stephen Kay
Andrew Dettmann & Joshua Hale Fialkov
November 5, 2017 (2017-11-05)
7.87[14]

7
"Trade Secrets"
Adam Davidson
Matthew Lau
November 12, 2017 (2017-11-12)
6.56[15]

8
"Denial of Service"[16]
Eagle Egilsson
Kim Shumway
November 19, 2017 (2017-11-19)
TBD

9
"Proof of Concept"[17]
Roxann Dawson
Aiyana White
November 26, 2017 (2017-11-26)
TBD

tag: table

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical reception[edit]

text: The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes an approval rating of 28% based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Wisdom of the Crowd wastes a talented cast on a formulaic procedural crime drama that wavers between modest returns and unintentional laughs."[18] Metacritic, which uses a normalized rating, assigned a weighted average score of 35 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[19]

tag: p


document_title: The Spy Who Dumped Me

question_text: when was the spy who dumped me released

question_tokens: when was the spy who dumped me released

text: The Spy Who Dumped Me

text: Plot[edit]

text: Cashier Audrey Stockton spends her birthday upset after being dumped, via text, by her boyfriend, Drew. Her best friend and roommate, Morgan, convinces her to burn Drew's things and sends him a text as a heads up. Unbeknownst to Audrey, Drew is a government agent being pursued by men trying to kill him. He promises to return and asks Audrey not to burn his things in the meantime.

text: At her job, Audrey flirts with a man who asks her to walk him to his car. Outside, he tells her he is Sebastian Henshaw and that Drew works for the C.I.A. and has gone missing. Audrey claims not to have heard from Drew and upon returning home, informs Morgan that Drew is a spy. Drew returns to Audrey's apartment to retrieve his possessions, including a trophy he won from fantasy football. People soon begin shooting into the apartment and Drew tells Audrey that they must travel to Vienna together and turn over the trophy to his contact. Drew is then murdered by a man Morgan had previously met at the bar, who is himself a spy, who is then killed by Morgan by pushing him off the balcony before he can attack Audrey.

text: After fleeing their apartment, Morgan convinces Audrey that they should go to Vienna. Once there, they go to the café Drew told them to go to. Sebastian appears and demands the trophy and Audrey reluctantly hands it over before the entire café is attacked. Audrey and Morgan flee the scene and are chased by men on motorcycles but manage to escape. Audrey reveals that she still has Drew's trophy since she switched it with one of several decoys they purchased at the airport. Morgan calls her parents who tell her to go to Prague where she and Audrey can stay with Roger, a family friend. After some difficulty, they manage to steal a pair of passports. On the train to Prague, they also realize that the trophy contains a USB flash drive in its base.

text: Audrey and Morgan make it to the apartment but quickly realize that "Roger" is actually a spy who has killed the real Roger and drugged the two girls. To protect the flash drive, Audrey tries to get Morgan to swallow it. When that fails she tells their captors that she flushed it down the toilet.

text: The girls wake up in an abandoned warehouse, about to be tortured by Nadedja, a Russian gymnast/assassin, trained by an older couple who were introduced to Audrey as Drew's parents. To try to save them Morgan tells Nadedja stories about how close she and Audrey are, hoping to have her relate only to realize that Nadedja's best friend is a balance beam that she practiced her gymnastics on. About to die, Audrey and Morgan are finally rescued by Sebastian, who defied his partner's orders in order to try and save them. He brings them to meet his boss in Paris where they once again tell both the C.I.A. and MI6 that the drive was flushed. The women are given tickets back to America and Sebastian is put on leave.

text: Driving back to the airport, Sebastian explains that Drew's "parents" are actually notorious criminals; Drew was discreetly negotiating with them to sell the flash drive, and Audrey came along as part of his cover. Now certain that she can trust him, Audrey confesses to Sebastian and Morgan that she didn't flush the flash drive but instead hid it in her vagina. Sebastian struggles to decrypt the file but fails. Morgan calls Edward Snowden- who had a crush on her in a summer camp- and he helps them hack the drive. Once the device is decrypted, Sebastian realizes that it is actually full of information which can be used for blackmail.

text: The trio travel to a hostel where they are attacked by Sebastian's C.I.A. partner Duffer, who is actually trying to obtain and then sell the drive. They are rescued by their roommate, who thinks they are being robbed. Using Duffer's phone, they are able to confirm they have the device and pretend to go forward with a deal to sell it. The deal is to take place at a private party so Audrey and Sebastian disguise themselves as the Canadian ambassador and his wife while Morgan pretends to be a member of Cirque du Soleil. At the event, Sebastian is attacked and Morgan is forced to contend with Nadedja on an acrobat swing, eventually killing her by throwing her onto the nearby set. Unwilling to miss her chance to make the deal and stop the murderer, Audrey goes to meet her mysterious contact and finds Drew, still alive. Drew tells Audrey he fought to be able to see her but acts suspicious and goes through her purse in order to find the flash drive. Sebastian arrives, being held hostage by Drew's "parents". After a standoff, Drew's "parents" are shot leaving Sebastian and Drew each accusing the other of trying to hurt Audrey. Drew then shoots Sebastian and Audrey pretends to be grateful for his protection before grabbing Drew's gun. After Drew tries to attack Audrey he is stopped by Morgan throwing a cannonball at him. Audrey implies that she is going to kill Drew and even pulls the trigger of the gun, but reveals that she kept it unloaded. Drew is arrested and Audrey, Morgan, and Sebastian walk away.

text: Sebastian later gives Morgan his untraceable phone so she can call her parents to tell them she is alive. While on the call Morgan receives a call from Sebastian's boss telling him he is off suspension. Morgan begs her for a job as a spy. Meanwhile Sebastian and Audrey share a kiss.

text: A year later, the girls are celebrating Audrey's birthday in Japan. However, the party is a ruse and it is revealed that Audrey and Morgan are there on a mission to stop a group of Japanese gangsters, having finally become real spies.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Mila Kunis as Audrey Stockton
Kate McKinnon as Morgan Freeman
Sam Heughan as Sebastian Henshaw
Justin Theroux as Drew Thayer
Gillian Anderson as Wendy
Hasan Minhaj as Duffer
Ivanna Sakhno as Nadedja
Fred Melamed as Roger
Kev Adams as Bitteauto Driver Lukas
Olafur Darri Olafsson as Finnish Backpacker
Tom Stourton as Edward Snowden
Jane Curtin as Carol Freeman
Paul Reiser as Arnie Freeman
James Fleet as Tom
Mirjam Novak as Verne

text: Production[edit]

text: Principal photography began production in Budapest, Hungary in July 2017.[3] It also took place in Amsterdam that September, wrapping that same month.[4]

text: Release[edit]

text: The Spy Who Dumped Me premiered at Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on July 25, 2018.[5] The film was originally scheduled to be released on July 6, 2018, but after "a phenomenal test screening" it was pushed back a month to August 3, 2018, in order to avoid a crowded July frame.[6][7]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: As of  August 26, 2018[update], The Spy Who Dumped Me has grossed $32.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $20 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $52.3 million, against a production budget of $40 million.[2]

text: In the United States and Canada, The Spy Who Dumped Me was released alongside Christopher Robin, The Darkest Minds and Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?, and was projected to gross $10–15 million from 3,111 theaters in its opening weekend.[8] The film made $5 million on its first day, including $950,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $12.4 million, finishing third at the box office behind holdover Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Christopher Robin.[9] It fell 45% to $6.6 million in its second weekend, finishing sixth.[10]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 50% based on 168 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Spy Who Dumped Me isn't the funniest or most inventive spy comedy, but Kate McKinnon remains as compulsively watchable as ever."[11] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[12] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it 3 out of 5 stars.[9]

text: Variety's Owen Gleiberman praised McKinnon's performance but criticized the film for favoring violence over comedy, writing, "The Spy Who Dumped Me is no debacle, but it's an over-the-top and weirdly combustible entertainment, a movie that can't seem to decide whether it wants to be a light comedy caper or a top-heavy exercise in B-movie mega-violence."[13] Barbara VanDenburgh of The Arizona Republic called the film "a tonally incongruous, plodding and graphically violent comedy" and gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, saying: "Perhaps the problem isn't one of too little ambition, but of too much. The Spy Who Dumped Me is, after all, trying earnestly to be about half a dozen different things: a buddy comedy, a spy drama, a raunch fest, a thrilling action film. It's just that it doesn't have the focus to do any of those things particularly well."[14] Rolling Stone's Peter Travers criticized the film, awarding it 2 out of 5 stars. Travers stated that the film "spends way too much time on car chases, shootouts, knife fights and R-rated violence that doesn't square with the film's comic agenda" and also commented that "The Spy Who Dumped Me isn't just painfully unfunny—it criminally wastes the comic talents of Kate McKinnon."[15]

text: Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised the film stating, "Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon riff gleefully in the ample and precise framework of Susanna Fogel's effervescent action comedy",[16] while Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times also gave a positive review saying, "The Spy Who Dumped Me [is] a fast, funny Europe-trotting buddy caper".[17] Sarah Melton from Exclaim! praised the film, saying "The Spy Who Dumped Me may be far from a cinematic masterpiece, but the accomplishment of blending action, a genre which relies on heightened stakes, with comedy, intended to relieve tension, is still something noteworthy."[18]


document_title: Don Larsen's perfect game

question_text: who made the last out in don larsen's perfect game

question_tokens: who made the last out in don larsen 's perfect game

text: Don Larsen's perfect game

text: Background[edit]

text: Don Larsen of the New York Yankees made his first start in a World Series game in the 1955 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Larsen lost the game.[2]

text: The Yankees and Dodgers faced each other in the 1956 World Series. Behind Sal Maglie, the Dodgers defeated the Yankees in Game 1. Casey Stengel, the manager of the Yankees, selected Larsen to start Game 2 against the Dodgers' Don Newcombe.[2] Despite being given a 6–0 lead by the Yankees' batters, he lasted only 1 2⁄3 innings against the Dodgers in a 13–8 loss. He only gave up one hit, a single by Gil Hodges, but walked four batters, which led to four runs in the process, but none of them were earned because of an error by first baseman Joe Collins.[3][4] The Yankees won Games 3 and 4 to tie the series at two games apiece.[5]

text: Game 5[edit]

text: With the series tied at two games apiece, Larsen started Game 5 for the Yankees. Larsen's opponent in the game was Maglie.[6] The Yankees scored two runs off Maglie, as Mickey Mantle hit a home run and Hank Bauer had a run batted in single. Larsen retired all 27 batters he faced to complete the perfect game.[7]

text: Larsen needed just 97 pitches to complete the game, and only one Dodger batter (Pee Wee Reese in the first inning) was able to get a 3-ball count. In 1998, Larsen recalled, "I had great control. I never had that kind of control in my life." The closest the Dodgers came to a hit were in the second inning, when Jackie Robinson hit a line drive off third baseman Andy Carey's glove, the ball caroming to shortstop Gil McDougald, who threw Robinson out by a step, and in the fifth, when Mickey Mantle ran down Gil Hodges' deep fly ball. Brooklyn's Maglie gave up only two runs on five hits and was perfect himself until Mantle's fourth-inning home run broke the scoreless tie. The Yankees added an insurance run in the sixth as Hank Bauer's single scored Carey, who had opened the inning with a single and was sacrificed to second by Larsen. After Roy Campanella grounded out to Billy Martin for the second out of the 9th inning, Larsen faced pinch hitter Dale Mitchell, a .312 career hitter. Throwing fastballs, Larsen got ahead in the count at 1–2. On his 97th pitch, Larsen struck out Mitchell for the 27th consecutive and final out.[8][9] Mitchell tried to check his swing on that last pitch, but home plate umpire Babe Pinelli, who would retire at the end of this World Series, called the last pitch a strike. Mitchell, who only struck out 119 times in 3,984 at-bats (or once every 34 at-bats) during his career, always maintained that the third strike he took was really a ball.

text: In one of the most iconic images in sports history, catcher Yogi Berra leaped into Larsen's arms after the final out. With the death of Berra on September 22, 2015, Larsen is the last living player for either team who played in this game.

text: Linescore[edit]

text:
Team
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E

Brooklyn
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

New York
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
X
2
5
0

WP: Don Larsen (1–0)   LP: Sal Maglie (1–1)Home runs:BKN: NoneNYY: Mickey Mantle (3)

text: Broadcast[edit]

text: NBC televised the game, with announcers Mel Allen (for the Yankees) and Vin Scully (for the Dodgers). In 2006, it was announced that a nearly-complete kinescope recording of the Game 5 telecast (featuring Larsen's perfect game) had been preserved and discovered by a collector. That kinescope recording aired during the MLB Network's first night on the air on January 1, 2009, supplemented with an interview of both Larsen and Yogi Berra by Bob Costas. The first inning of the telecast is still considered lost and was not aired by the MLB Network or included in a subsequent DVD release of the game.

text: Aftermath[edit]

text: The Dodgers won Game 6 of the series, but the Yankees won the decisive Game 7. Larsen's performance earned him the World Series Most Valuable Player Award[10] and the Babe Ruth Award.[11] When the World Series ended, Larsen did a round of endorsements and promotional work around the United States, but he stopped soon after because it was "disrupting his routine".[12]

text: Larsen's perfect game remained the only no-hitter thrown in the MLB postseason until Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies threw a no-hitter on October 6, 2010, against the Cincinnati Reds in the first game of the 2010 National League Division Series.[1] Halladay, who had already thrown a perfect game earlier in the 2010 season, faced 28 batters after giving up a walk (to Jay Bruce of the Cincinnati Reds) in the fifth inning.

text: Larsen's perfect game remained the only postseason game in which any team faced the minimum 27 batters until Kyle Hendricks and Aroldis Chapman of the Chicago Cubs managed to achieve the feat in Game 6 of the 2016 National League Championship Series. In that game, the Cubs gave up two hits and a walk and committed a fielding error, but managed to put out all four baserunners, three via double plays and one on a pickoff.


document_title: WWE Raw Women's Championship

question_text: who is the longest reigning raw women's champion

question_tokens: who is the longest reigning raw women 's champion

text: WWE Raw Women's Championship

text: History[edit]

text: On April 3, 2016, WWE Hall of Famer Lita appeared during the WrestleMania 32 pre-show and, after recapping the history of women's professional wrestling in WWE, unveiled the brand-new championship and declared that WWE's women would no longer be referred to as WWE Divas, but as "WWE Superstars" just as their male counterparts are.[1] This came after the term "Diva" was scrutinized by some commentators, fans, and several past and present WWE female performers, including then-Divas Champion Charlotte, who were in favor of changing the championship to the Women's Championship.[2] It was also changed because some WWE female wrestlers felt it diminished their athletic abilities and relegated them to "eye candy".[3][4] Lita then announced that the winner of the Divas Championship triple threat match between Charlotte, Becky Lynch, and Sasha Banks later that night would become the first-ever WWE Women's Champion, subsequently retiring the Divas Championship.[5] Charlotte, the final Divas Champion, became the inaugural WWE Women's Champion when she defeated Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch.[6]

text: Following the reintroduction of the brand extension, then champion Charlotte was drafted to the Raw brand on the July 19, 2016 premiere episode of SmackDown Live, making the championship exclusive to Raw. In response, SmackDown created the SmackDown Women's Championship on August 23, 2016. The WWE Women's Championship was subsequently renamed to reflect its exclusivity to Raw.[1]

text: When the title was introduced, it shared its name with the original Women's Championship. However, the new title does not share the same title history as the original, which was unified with the Divas Championship in 2010, with the combined title inheriting the latter's lineage and history. WWE acknowledges the original championship as its predecessor,[1] and notes that the lineage of female champions dates back to The Fabulous Moolah's reign in 1956.[5]

text: Brand designation history[edit]

text: When the championship was unveiled, there was no brand division as that had ended in August 2011. From its inception until the reintroduction of the brand extension in July 2016, then-champion Charlotte defended the title on both Raw and SmackDown.

text:
Colors

Championship moved to the Raw brand.

text:
Date of transition
Notes

July 19, 2016
WWE Women's Champion Charlotte was drafted to Raw during the 2016 WWE draft.
After the introduction of the SmackDown Women's Championship, the title was renamed to Raw Women's Championship.

text: Championship belt design[edit]

text: The Raw Women's Championship belt is similar in appearance to the WWE Championship belt, with a few notable differences. The strap is smaller to fit the champion, and white, as opposed to black. The die-cut WWE logo in the center plate sits on a red background, as opposed to a black one. The small print below the logo reads "Women's Champion". Like the WWE Championship belt, the Raw Women's Championship belt features two side plates, both separated by gold divider bars, with the WWE logo on the globe as default plates, which are customized with the current champion's logos as a similarity of the name plate feature of other championship belts.[5]

text: Title history[edit]

text: Name[edit]

text:
Name
Years

WWE Women's Championship
April 3, 2016 – September 4, 2016

WWE Raw Women's Championship
September 5, 2016 – present

text: Reigns[edit]

text: As of September 18, 2017, overall there have been 11 reigns between 4 champions. Charlotte Flair, then known simply as Charlotte, was the inaugural champion, and she holds multiple records with the championship: her first reign is the longest reign at 113 days and she has the longest combined reign at 242 days (WWE lists 114 and 246, respectively), she is the oldest champion when she won her fourth championship at the age of 30, and she is tied with Sasha Banks for the most reigns at four. Banks is the youngest champion when she first won the title at 24 years old, and her fourth reign is the shortest at 8 days (WWE recognizes it as 9 days).

text: Alexa Bliss is the current champion in her second reign. She won the title by defeating Sasha Banks on Raw on August 28, 2017 in her contractual rematch.

text:
Reign
The reign number for the specific champion listed

Location
The city in which the title was won

Event
The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won

—
Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign

+
Indicates the current reign is changing daily

text:
No.
Champion
Reign
Date
Days held
Location
Event
Notes
Ref.

1
Charlotte, Charlotte[d]
1
000000002016-04-03-0000April 3, 2016
7002113000000000000♠113
Arlington, TX
WrestleMania 32
This was a triple threat match, also involving Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks, to determine the inaugural champion. The Divas Championship, which Charlotte held going into the match, was retired in favor of the new WWE Women's Championship.
The title became exclusive to the Raw brand following the 2016 WWE draft.
WWE recognizes Charlotte's reign as lasting 114 days.
[7]

2
Banks, SashaSasha Banks
1
000000002016-07-25-0000July 25, 2016
7001270000000000000♠27
Pittsburgh, PA
Raw

[8]

3
Charlotte, Charlotte
2
000000002016-08-21-0000August 21, 2016
7001430000000000000♠43
Brooklyn, NY
SummerSlam
The title was renamed the Raw Women's Championship on September 5, 2016 following the creation of the SmackDown Women's Championship.
WWE recognizes Charlotte's reign as lasting 44 days.
[9]

4
Banks, SashaSasha Banks
2
000000002016-10-03-0000October 3, 2016
7001270000000000000♠27
Los Angeles, CA
Raw
WWE recognizes Banks' reign as lasting 28 days.
[10]

5
Flair, CharlotteCharlotte Flair
3
000000002016-10-30-0000October 30, 2016
7001290000000000000♠29
Boston, MA
Hell in a Cell
This was a Hell in a Cell match.
WWE recognizes Flair's reign as lasting 30 days.
[11]

6
Banks, SashaSasha Banks
3
000000002016-11-28-0000November 28, 2016
7001200000000000000♠20
Charlotte, NC
Raw
This was a falls count anywhere match.
[12]

7
Flair, CharlotteCharlotte Flair
4
000000002016-12-18-0000December 18, 2016
7001570000000000000♠57
Pittsburgh, PA
Roadblock: End of the Line
This was a 30-minute Iron Man match, in which Flair won 3–2 in sudden death overtime.
WWE recognizes Flair's reign as lasting 58 days.
[13]

8
Bayley, Bayley
1
000000002017-02-13-0000February 13, 2017
7001760000000000000♠76
Las Vegas, NV
Raw

[14]

9
Bliss, AlexaAlexa Bliss
1
000000002017-04-30-0000April 30, 2017
7002112000000000000♠112
San Jose, CA
Payback

[15]

10
Banks, SashaSasha Banks
4
000000002017-08-20-0000August 20, 2017
7000800000000000000♠8
Brooklyn, NY
SummerSlam
WWE recognizes Banks' reign as lasting 9 days.
[16]

11
Bliss, AlexaAlexa Bliss
2
000000002017-08-28-0000August 28, 2017
7001210000000000000♠21+
Memphis, TN
Raw

[17]

text: Combined reigns[edit]

text: As of September 18, 2017.

text:
†
Indicates the current champion

text:
Rank
Wrestler
No. of
reigns
Combined days
Combined days
recognized by WWE

1
Flair, CharlotteCharlotte Flair
4
242
246

2
Bliss, AlexaAlexa Bliss †
2
7002133000000000000♠133+

3
Banks, SashaSasha Banks
4
82
84

4
Bayley, Bayley
1
76


document_title: List of Major League Baseball single-game strikeout leaders

question_text: who has the most strikeouts in a game

question_tokens: who has the most strikeouts in a game

text: Players[edit]

text:
Key

Pitcher
Name of the pitcher

Date
Date of the game

Team
The player's team at the time of the game

Opposing team
The team against whom the pitcher struck out 18 players

Score
Final score of the game, with the player's team score listed first

Strikeouts
Number of strikeouts the pitcher recorded

Career Ks
Career strikeouts

Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

*
Player is active

Indicates the player's team lost the game

text:
MLB pitchers with 18 strikeouts in a nine-inning game

Pitcher
Date
Team
Opposing team
Score
Strikeouts
Career Ks
Refs

Scherzer, MaxMax Scherzer*
000000002016-05-11-0000May 11, 2016
Washington Nationals
Detroit Tigers
3–2
20
1,881
[16][17]

Wood, KerryKerry Wood
000000001998-05-06-0000May 6, 1998
Chicago Cubs
Houston Astros
2–0
20
1,582
[11][18]

Clemens, RogerRoger Clemens
000000001996-09-18-0000September 18, 1996
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
4–0
20
4,672
[19][20]

Clemens, RogerRoger Clemens
000000001986-04-29-0000April 29, 1986
Boston Red Sox
Seattle Mariners
3–1
20
4,672
[20][21]

Johnson, RandyRandy Johnson
000000001997-08-08-0000August 8, 1997
Seattle Mariners
Chicago White Sox
5–0
19
4,875
[22][23]

Johnson, RandyRandy Johnson
000000001997-06-24-0000June 24, 1997
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics
1–4
19
4,875
[23][24]

Cone, DavidDavid Cone
000000001991-10-06-0000October 6, 1991
New York Mets
Philadelphia Phillies
7–0
19
2,668
[25][26]

Ryan, NolanNolan Ryan
000000001974-08-12-0000August 12, 1974
California Angels
Boston Red Sox
4–2
19
5,714
[27][28]

Seaver, TomTom Seaver
000000001970-04-22-0000April 22, 1970
New York Mets
San Diego Padres
2–1
19
3,640
[29][30]

Carlton, SteveSteve Carlton
000000001969-09-15-0000September 15, 1969
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Mets
3–4
19
4,136
[31][32]

Daily, HughHugh Daily
000000001884-07-07-0000July 7, 1884
Chicago Browns
Boston Reds
10–4
19
846
[33][34]

Sweeney, CharlieCharlie Sweeney
000000001884-06-07-0000June 7, 1884
Providence Grays
Boston Beaneaters
2–1
19
505
[35][36]

Kluber, CoreyCorey Kluber*
000000002015-05-13-0000May 13, 2015
Cleveland Indians
St. Louis Cardinals
2–0
18
630
[37][38]

Sheets, BenBen Sheets
000000002004-05-16-0000May 16, 2004
Milwaukee Brewers
Atlanta Braves
4–1
18
1,325
[39][40]

Clemens, RogerRoger Clemens
000000001998-08-25-0000August 25, 1998
Toronto Blue Jays
Kansas City Royals
3–0
18
4,672
[20][41]

Johnson, RandyRandy Johnson
000000001992-09-27-0000September 27, 1992
Seattle Mariners
Texas Rangers
2–3
18
4,875
[23][42]

Martínez, RamónRamón Martínez
000000001990-06-04-0000June 4, 1990
Los Angeles Dodgers
Atlanta Braves
6–0
18
1,427
[43][44]

Gullickson, BillBill Gullickson
000000001980-09-10-0000September 10, 1980
Montreal Expos
Chicago Cubs
4–2
18
1,279
[10][45]

Guidry, RonRon Guidry
000000001978-06-17-0000June 17, 1978
New York Yankees
California Angels
4–0
18
1,778
[46][47]

Ryan, NolanNolan Ryan
000000001976-09-10-0000September 10, 1976
California Angels
Chicago White Sox
3–2
18
5,714
[28][48]

Wilson, DonDon Wilson
000000001968-07-14-0000July 14, 1968
Houston Astros
Cincinnati Reds
6–1
18
1,283
[49][50]

Koufax, SandySandy Koufax
000000001962-04-24-0000April 24, 1962
Los Angeles Dodgers
Chicago Cubs
10–2
18
2,396
[51][52]

Koufax, SandySandy Koufax
000000001959-08-31-0000August 31, 1959
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Francisco Giants
5–2
18
2,396
[52][53]

Feller, BobBob Feller
000000001938-10-02-0000October 2, 1938
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
1–4
18
2,581
[54][55]

Porter, HenryHenry Porter
000000001884-10-03-0000October 3, 1884
Milwaukee Brewers
Boston Reds
4–5
18
659
[56][57]

Shaw, DupeeDupee Shaw
000000001884-07-19-0000July 19, 1884
Boston Reds
St. Louis Maroons
0–1
18
950
[58][59]

text: 18 strikeouts in extra-inning games[edit]

text: Seven different pitchers have struck out at least 18 batters in an extra-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) game to date. Only Nolan Ryan accomplished the feat more than once in his career and no player has ever struck out more than 21 batters in a game.

text: The following list is kept separate from the above list of pitchers who have struck out 18 or more batters in a nine-inning game. This is due to the differing number of innings pitched during an extra-inning game, the lack of a definitive endpoint to the game that would otherwise allow for a fair comparison to be made, and the advantage of having more opportunities to strike out players during an extra-inning game as opposed to one lasting nine innings.

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Key

IP
Innings pitched by the pitcher in the game

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MLB pitchers with 18 strikeouts in an extra-inning game

Pitcher
Date
Team
Opposing team
Score
Strikeouts
IP
Career Ks
Refs

Cheney, TomTom Cheney
000000001962-09-12-0000September 12, 1962
Washington Senators
Baltimore Orioles
2–1
21
16
345
[60][61]

Johnson, RandyRandy Johnson
000000002001-05-08-0000May 8, 2001
Arizona Diamondbacks
Cincinnati Reds
4–3
20
9[b]
4,875
[23][62]

Tiant, LuisLuis Tiant
000000001968-07-03-0000July 3, 1968
Cleveland Indians
Minnesota Twins
1–0
19
10
2,416
[63][64]

Ryan, NolanNolan Ryan
000000001974-06-14-0000June 14, 1974
California Angels
Boston Red Sox
4–3
19
13
5,714
[28][65]

Ryan, NolanNolan Ryan
000000001974-08-20-0000August 20, 1974
California Angels
Detroit Tigers
0–1
19
11
5,714
[28][66]

Ryan, NolanNolan Ryan
000000001977-06-08-0000June 8, 1977
California Angels
Toronto Blue Jays
2–1
19
10
5,714
[28][67]

Spahn, WarrenWarren Spahn
000000001952-06-14-0000June 14, 1952
Boston Braves
Chicago Cubs
1–3
18
15
2,583
[68][69]

Short, ChrisChris Short
000000001965-10-02-0000October 2, 1965
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Mets
0–0
18
15
1,629
[70][71]

Maloney, JimJim Maloney
000000001965-06-14-0000June 14, 1965
Cincinnati Reds
New York Mets
0–1
18
11
1,605
[72][73]