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46-598: For the inaugural 2015 season , the Force hired former Wichita Wild head coach Paco Martinez. The Force opened the season with a home loss to the Salina Bombers , then regrouped to win four consecutive games in a five-week span. After that stretch, results have been mixed with road losses to the two teams that would end up playing in the Champions Bowl— Texas Revolution and Sioux City Bandits —then,

92-462: A bye is the preferential status of a player or team that is automatically advanced to the next round of a tournament without having to play an opponent in an early round. In knockout (elimination) tournaments , byes may be assigned either to reward the highest ranked participant(s), or randomly, to make a working bracket if the number of participants is not a power of two (e.g. 16 or 32). In round-robin tournaments , usually one competitor gets

138-554: A 21-week regular season. In most seasons, (from 2014 to 2017 and prior to 2007), each team has two bye weeks during the 20 week 18-game regular season. When the league had only 8 teams, the league usually had no bye weeks. However between 2007 and 2013, the league had one bye per team over in two weeks in August (4 teams would have a bye during week 6 and the other 4 teams would have a bye on week 7). In Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), each team has three byes each season. With

184-420: A bye in each round when there are an odd number of competitors, as it is impossible for all competitors to play in the same round. However, over the whole tournament, each plays the same number of games as well as sitting out for the same number of rounds. The "Berger Tables" used by FIDE for chess tournaments, provide pairings for even numbered pools and simply state that "Where there is an odd number of players,

230-449: A bye to the second round, as it is generally seen as an advantage to be assured entry into a later round. In the NFL playoffs , for example, as of 2020 , the division-leader with the best record in each conference is given a bye to the second round. The Canadian Football League (CFL) also grants a bye to its two division winners, directly to the division finals as four other teams compete in

276-531: A bye week the next season through 2020 . Since 2021 , the season is 18 weeks long with a bye week and an additional 17th game. Between 1999 and 2001 , the NFL had an odd number of teams (31) as a result of the Cleveland Browns re-entering the league . Each week during these three seasons featured at least one team with its bye week, but the 2001 season also added an additional impromptu league-wide bye

322-467: A home win over the Salina Bombers , and a road win over the Dodge City Law . In 2017, the Force underwent an ownership change and head coach Martinez was fired after three seasons with the team. He was replaced by Morris Lolar as the head coach and Stuart Schake was named general manager for the 2018 season. Brian Turner was named general manager for the 2019 season, but head coach Lolar left for

368-613: A position with Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League and Rick Lee and Jerry Taylor were named co-coaches in March 2019. For the 2020 season, the Force hired Pat Pimmel as head coach. The team also moved from the larger Intrust Bank Arena , where the team had played for the first five seasons, to the smaller Hartman Arena , where the Wichita Wild used to play. However, the 2020 season never began and

414-411: A second round with five teams, meaning only two matches could occur. Thus, if the number of participants is not a power of two (e.g. 16 or 32), to make a working bracket byes are provided to automatically move certain participants into a later round without requiring them to compete in an earlier one. When participants are ranked, participants with the highest ranking going into the tournament are given

460-411: A semi-final week. In other tournaments where teams are unranked, random draw may be used to determine the byes. The number of teams offered a bye is generally designed to ensure that the next round consists of a power-of-two number of teams so the tournament can proceed as a simple single-elimination tournament from that round onward. If the byes are all single first-round byes into the second round of

506-506: A team having a "bye week" or a "second bye" if that team is playing an especially poor team, and is all but assured of a win. Ever since the NFL started Thursday Night Football, teams who play on a Thursday night are sometimes referred to having a "mini bye" until their next game, usually being about 10 - 11 days away. Traditionally, the CFL has had nine teams and required bye weeks. Beginning 2018, each team has three bye weeks and 18 games over

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552-485: A team which has a bye is awarded a win. In the Provincial Championships of Gaelic football , some teams receive a bye due to the irregular number of teams competing in each province. The different numbers resulted in different byes alignments in each Provincial Championship. For example, below is an assessment of the 2012 Provincial Championships, and their use of the "bye". Seven teams contested

598-526: A tournament, the number of byes required is the difference between the number of teams and the next-highest power of two. For example, a 12-team tournament will require four byes (16−12) to ensure that instead of six teams in the second round, eight advance (as the four byes avoid two of the four teams being eliminated). In postseason tournaments sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities Association ,

644-432: A weakened side. On the competition ladder, teams are typically awarded two points (equivalent to a win) during their bye week. The Australian Football League , which comprises an even number of clubs, gives each club a bye week in mid-season , as well as a bye the week before the finals . In 1915 , 1919 to 1924 , 1942 and 1943 , 1991 to 1994 and 2011 , when there were an odd number of clubs competing, each club

690-463: Is placed on the team's schedule, usually falling between Week 4 and Week 12 inclusive. During the 1960 and 1966 seasons, the league had an odd number of teams due to expansion. Each week during those seasons, one team had a bye, including one team each in the first and last week of the season: thus, because they had to play all their games with no break in the middle, those two teams effectively had no byes. The American Football League (which at

736-429: The 2012 Connacht Senior Football Championship , so a quarter-final was not played by Mayo . Mayo therefore advanced directly to the semi-final to await the winner of the game between Leitrim and London . Eleven teams contested the 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship , so five teams were given first round byes. Three teams ( Carlow , Dublin and Wexford ) played winners of the three preliminary matches, while

782-723: The CAA and Sun Belt in 2023, as well as the American in 2024, as each expanded beyond 12 teams. Various other conferences like the OVC offer "double byes" to the semifinals for their top two teams, while the WCC offers "triple byes" to their top two teams. While not yet confirmed, the ACC are likely to adopt "triple byes" starting in 2025, as membership for the conference will expand beyond 16 teams. In Esports , "double byes" are most commonly seen during

828-628: The ESL Pro League event for the Counter-Strike series of games, awarded to the teams who won each of the groups during the group stage. "Triple byes" are currently used for China 's professional League of Legends league, known as the LPL , and are awarded to the top two teams during a split's regular season. Up until 2020, they were also used for South Korea 's LCK , with the top team in their split's regular season automatically making

874-649: The Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas , under the direction of head coach Paco Martinez. The Force's announced schedule for the 2015 season was not directly affected when the New Mexico Stars abruptly postponed their entry into the league on February 21, just one week before the season began. On March 3, the Albuquerque -based Duke City Gladiators were announced as a late entry into

920-494: The National Football League (NFL). In a standard single-elimination tournament , each round has half the number of teams of the preceding round. Thus the finals will have two, the semi-finals will have four, the quarter-finals will have eight, etc. Thus tournaments with competitors numbering a power of two can have a standard bracket in which all teams are paired up with the loser of each match eliminated and

966-629: The AFA). In January 2022, the Force were removed from the CIF for not meeting the league's minimum operating requirements. On February 7, 2022, the Force announced they had joined the new Arena Football Association , a league established by former CIF teams, the Amarillo Venom and West Texas Warbirds . The Force also announced they would play 2022 games at the Wichita Ice Center instead of

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1012-588: The CIF with the Wild's head coach and a significant number of their former players. Each week of the regular season, the CIF named league-wide Players of the Week in offensive, defensive, and special teams categories. For Week 1, the CIF named running back Tywon Hubbard as one of two Special Teams Players of the Week. For Week 2, the CIF named kick returner Clarence Anderson as the Special Teams Player of

1058-614: The Final as a result. In certain tournaments, the byes are somewhat disguised. When more teams are given first-round byes than actually compete in the first round, these first games may be referred to as "play-in" games and might not be a formally labelled as a tournament round. From 2012 to 2019 and 2021, the Major League Baseball playoffs has included ten teams consisting of six division winners and four wild card teams (the top-ranked non-division-winners). The first round of

1104-558: The Kansas Star Center. 2015 Wichita Force season The 2015 Wichita Force season is the team's first season as a professional indoor football franchise and first as a member of Champions Indoor Football (CIF). One of nine teams in the CIF for the inaugural 2015 season , the Wichita Force is owned by Wichita Indoor Football LLC, led by managing partner Marv Fisher. The Force play their home games at

1150-589: The Week. For Week 14, the CIF named quarterback Emmanuel Taylor as the Offensive Player of the Week. Key :    Win    Tie    Loss     Bye Running back Wide receivers Defensive linemen Defensive backs Kickers Transfer List Refuse to Report Roster updated June 11, 2015 21 Active, 0 Inactive → More rosters x = clinched playoffs, y = clinched home playoffs, z = clinched top seed Bye (sports) In sports,

1196-403: The Week. For Week 6, the CIF again named kick returner Clarence Anderson as the Special Teams Player of the Week. For Week 9, the CIF named kicker Ernesto Lacayo as the Special Teams Player of the Week. For Week 11, the CIF again named kicker Ernesto Lacayo as the Special Teams Player of the Week. For Week 13, the CIF yet again named kick returner Clarence Anderson as the Special Teams Player of

1242-517: The competition expanding to an odd number of teams from the 2023 NRL season , one club is required to have a bye each round. During the representative period of the season (such as the State of Origin ), multiple byes are scheduled to the clubs that are expected to have the most players involved in the representative match, in the round preceding the representative fixture, to allow those clubs to sufficiently rest those players and prevent them from fielding

1288-456: The division winners. The FA Cup also has certain teams compete in up to 6 preliminary rounds to qualify for the first round "proper". Another example is the NCAA basketball tournament , which since 2011 has had 68 teams, effectively granting 60 byes, while eight teams compete in the "First Four" games for remaining four spots in the round of 64. From 2011 to 2015, the "First Four" was considered

1334-410: The final "Super Six". In each of these nine sextets, each team competes during four of six "rotations" with the other two as byes – scheduled before the uneven bars and the floor exercise. For example, Semifinal II of the 2018 championships operated as follows In a Swiss-system tournament with an odd number of players, one player gets a bye in each round, but not all players will get

1380-405: The first round; the round of 64, played on Thursday and Friday, was called the "second round"; the round of 32 was then called the "third round", consisting of games played on Saturday and Sunday. In 2016, the naming reverted to the round of 64 being the "first round" once again, and the round of 32 being the "second round", though the play-in round and all eight of those teams are officially part of

1426-441: The highest number counts as a bye." Similar to the round-robin context, in league sports with weekly regular-season play such as gridiron football or rugby , a team not scheduled to play on a given week or fixture (competition period) can be said to be on its "bye week". Byes are necessary if there is an odd number of teams, but may also be used with an even number of teams, for example to provide rest breaks, as has been done in

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1472-406: The ladder. This is different from a double elimination format, in which a team has to lose both in the tournament and the repechage to be eliminated. The A-League Men also had bye rounds in the 2019-20 season and the 2024-25 season due to an odd amount of teams being in the competition after expanding the amount of teams in the league. The top two placed regular season teams earn a bye into

1518-422: The league's top two seeds, while the next two seeds got first-round byes for their playoffs . In NCAA Division I basketball, the 2009 Big East men's basketball tournament introduced "double byes", as the conference invited all 16 members to participate for the first time (previously only the top twelve were invited). To limit the number of games each round to four, the four highest seeded teams were advanced to

1564-647: The league, partially replacing the Stars in the CIF schedule with a plan to play 11 games in 2015. After the 2014 season ended, the Champions Professional Indoor Football League announced it was merging with teams from other leagues to form a new league, Champions Indoor Football . The Wichita Wild franchise folded after eight seasons and a new ownership group launched the Wichita Force as an expansion franchise in

1610-410: The other two played each other in the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. Six teams contested the 2012 Munster Senior Football Championship , so two teams ( Clare and Cork ) were permitted to advance to the semi-finals without playing a game in the quarter-finals. Nine teams contested the 2012 Ulster Senior Football Championship , so only Cavan and Donegal played in

1656-474: The playoffs consists two wild-card games : single-game matches in which the four wild-card teams are reduced to two. The winners move on to the Divisional series with the six division winners for an eight-team, three-round tournament. Although this is billed as adding two extra "one-game showdowns" to the post-season, it could also be viewed as adding a fourth round to the ten-team tournament with six byes for

1702-399: The preliminary round, while the other seven advanced via bye to the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. While less common, byes can be offered for multiple rounds (e.g. a "double bye" directly into the third round), or starting in a later round (e.g. the top-ranked team in the first round is given a bye straight to the third round). A bye granted in a later round of

1748-492: The semi finals of the A League Finals . In a variation of the round-robin case, at certain high-level competitions in artistic gymnastics , teams cycle through the apparatuses in an "Olympic Order" with scheduled byes in between. As an example, the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships has 36 teams with six teams apiece at six regional sites, with 12 advancing to two semifinal rounds of six that decide participants for

1794-687: The third round of competition, the 5th-8th seeded teams given byes to the second round, and the bottom eight competed the first day. Due to the realignment of major conferences , "double byes" were no longer needed by the Big East after 2013, but were added by the Southeastern Conference in 2013 , the Atlantic Coast and Atlantic 10 conferences in 2014, the Big Ten in 2015 , and after another round of conference realignment ,

1840-672: The time was a completely separate league, but later became the American Football Conference ) also had an odd number of teams in 1966 and 1967 following the addition of the Miami Dolphins , leaving each team with two bye weeks. The NFL returned to the use of the bye week in 1990 so as to extend the 16-game regular season schedule to span 17 weeks to increase the number of viewable games for television contracts. The 1993 season spanned 18 weeks with each team having 2 bye weeks; it went back to 17 weeks with

1886-658: The tournament eliminates the need for two byes in the previous round. In the English FA Cup , the football clubs in the top two league divisions receive two-round byes and enter in the third round "proper" (of eight); the two next-highest divisions' teams will have entered in the first round. Another example is the UEFA Europa League , where teams from the highest-ranked nations enter the group stage directly without having to go through qualification. The WNBA , from 2016 to 2021, had granted double byes to

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1932-408: The tournament. Certain professional rugby and gridiron football leagues use the term "bye week" for any week during the regular season in which a team does not play a game. (School teams may also have non-competing weeks, but these are scheduled by individual schools/conferences and more commonly termed "open dates" or "idle weeks".) Each NFL team has one "bye week" during a normal season; this

1978-593: The weekend after the September 11 attacks . The league returned to having an even number of teams (32) in 2002 with the addition of the Houston Texans , and implemented the current bye week system. In the rare case of a game postponement that cannot be made up within the same week, the NFL may revise bye weeks assignments in order to reschedule the delayed game, making the postponement week those teams' new "bye week": The media may also sarcastically refer to

2024-405: The winner moving on to the next round until only one champion remains. However, if the number of teams is not a power of two, a simple elimination tournament would eventually produce a round with an odd number of teams (if the number is not odd to start with). For example, a tournament of nine teams could only have four matches in the first round, while a simple tournament of ten teams would produce

2070-619: Was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing arenas. The following 2021 season, the season was shortened and delayed as the pandemic restrictions continued. Pat Pimmel left the team and was replaced by Ene Akpan. On April 1, 2021, the Force announced they would play the season out of the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane . The facility was criticized by some players and was notable for using inflatable walls (this would carry over to

2116-560: Was given two byes. In both leagues, and under many other professional and amateur sports leagues in Australia, higher placed teams do not earn byes during finals , but instead the opportunity not to be eliminated by losing their first-round match (also called a double chance). This practice is common in Australia, but it is not used in most other countries, to earn an easier passage to the Grand Final as reward for finishing higher on

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