1.   Also, home-field advantage for division winners was determined before the season and not based on performance.

2.   And to think, this is a Raiders team that has defeated Minnesota on the road, Buffalo on the road, and beaten probable division winner Seattle.

3.   Besides the three division winners, five NFC teams can reach nine victories.

4.   But with division winners getting the first three seeds in the playoffs, a loss to the Kings would have put the Blues fourth in the Western Conference.

5.   But with division winners getting the first three seeds, that puts the Blues fourth in the Western Conference.

6.   Clark gave the Rangers his blood and sweat for five seasons, playing every game hard, and contributing to the first two division winners in club history.

7.   Division winners could rest their pitchers.

8.   Division winners and three wild-card teams from each conference advance to the postseason.

9.   Division winners are the first three seeds in the playoffs.

10.   He spent two years in New York, transforming the Knicks into division winners.