When does the 2024 MLB regular season end? When do the 2024 MLB Playoffs start?

What is the 2024 MLB postseason schedule? What is the format for the different rounds in the 2024 MLB Playoff series? How can I watch the 2024 MLB postseason?

Here's what to know about the end of the regular season this season and the beginning of the postseason, which will be here before we know it.

As for who will play in the MLB Playoffs this season, that is an entirely different story. You can see the MLB postseason standings in our MLB playoff picture story.

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When does the 2024 MLB regular season end?

The 2024 MLB regular season is scheduled to end on Sept. 29, 2024.

When do the 2024 MLB Playoffs start?

The 2024 MLB Playoffs are scheduled to start on Oct. 1, 2024, with the Wild Card Round.

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What if there is a tie at the end of the 2024 MLB regular season?

MLB teams used to play a tiebreaker game at the end of the season if they were tied, but that is no longer the case.

MLB adopted a tiebreaker system to resolve ties and eliminate tie-breaker games at the conclusion of the regular season.

Tiebreakers are first broken by head-to-head records, then it goes to records in your own division, if needed.

A third tiebreaker, if needed is which team has a better record in league games that were not in your division.

In the unlikely event of another tie, the fourth tiebreaker is a team's record in their league over the second half of the season.

Interestingly, the fifth and final tiebreaker is the outcome of the last game of the first half of intraleague games.

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What is the format for the 2024 MLB Playoffs?

The National League and American League each send six teams to the postseason, three division winners and three Wild Card teams, the non-division winners with the best records.

The No. 1 seed in each league goes to the team with the best overall record in that league.

The No. 2 seed goes to the division winner with the next best record, while the No. 3 seed goes to the remaining division winner.

The team with the best record that did not win its division gets the No. 4 seed, with the Wild Card team with the second-best record getting the No. 5 seed and the team with the third getting the No. 6 seed.

It pays to be the top two seeds. Those teams get byes straight into the Division Series, while the No. 3 seed takes on the No. 6 seed and the No. 4 seed takes on the No. 5 seed in the first round of the postseason, the Wild Card round.

The Wild Card round is played at the higher seed over three days, with whoever wins the best-of-3 series advancing to the Divisional Round.

The winner of the series between the No. 4 and No. 5 seed will face the No. 1 seed in the Divisional Round and the other series will be the No. 2 seed against the No. 3 or No. 6 seed series winner.

The Divisional Round is a best-of-five games, with the first two at the higher seed, Games 3 and 4 at the lower seed and the deciding fifth game, if necessary, at the higher seed.

The winners of the Divisional Round advance to play in the League Championship Series and the World Series, which are best-of-seven. The higher seeds get to host the first two games and the last two games of the series, with the lower seed getting the middle three games.

Home-field advantage in the World Series goes to the team with the best record in the regular season, not to the league that won the All-Star Game.

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What is the 2024 MLB Playoffs schedule?

• Wild Card Round: Oct. 1-3

• Divisional Round: Oct. 5-12

• Championship Series Round: Oct. 13-22

• World Series: Oct. 25-Nov. 2

When is the 2024 World Series?

The 2024 World Series is scheduled to start on Oct. 25. If the series were to go seven games, it would end on Nov. 2.

How can I watch the 2024 MLB Playoffs?

The MLB Playoffs will air on FOX, FS1, TBS, ESPN, ESPN2 and MLB Network.

Specific channels for each series and each game will be announced when the 2024 MLB Playoffs schedule is known.

They can be streamed by streaming services that carry those channels, including FUBO (click here for a free trial)

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