 If a tie were (from 1995-2011) a two-way tie for a division championship and both tied teams' have records higher than those records of the second-place teams in the other divisions, or (from 2012) between the two division non-champions with the untied best record, there is no one-game playoff.In this scenario, the winner of the season series between the two teams is deemed to win the tie for purposes of playoff seeding.Through the 2008 season, home-field advantage for one-game playoffs was determined by a coin flip, but effective in , home advantage is based on a set of performance criteria, with the first tiebreaker being head-to-head record.