home-field advantage. From 2007–2011, the 1 seed of the league that won the All-Star Game was given another advantage. In addition to earning home-field advantage throughout the entire playoffs, they were allowed to choose their schedule for the series. They could either choose to have an extra day off (usually between games 1 and 2) during the division series and start a day early, or start a day late, with one less off day (only having travel days off, between games 2 and 3, and if necessary 4 and 5). The American League's best record received this option from 2007–2009 and the National League's best record received it in 2010. 2012–2019, 2021 A revised playoff system was utilized beginning with the 2012 season, which added a second wild-card team for each league. The two wild card teams in each league played a one game playoff to advance. The winner of this game advanced to play the #1 seed in the league in the Division Series, regardless of whether the two teams were in the same division. Because the format was added well after the regular season schedule was announced, the 2012 Division Series used a 2–3 format. From 2013 to 2021, the Division Series used the 2–2–1 format previously used. The 2020 edition of the Division Series was modified from usual formatting due to the expanding of the playoffs for the 60-game regular season that saw the LDS be the second round of the postseason after a Wild Card Series that saw all three divisions get at least two playoff teams. The winners of the 1/8 matchup faced the winners of the 4/5 matchup while the 2/7 faced the 3/6. When every team from the Central division lost, it meant that the LDS matchups would all feature teams from the same division playing each other (i.e. East playing East and West playing West), the first occasion of this happening since 1981. Each of the four LDS matchups were played in consecutive days in neutral sites that had a 2-2-1 structure in who batted first between the team with the best record. Since 2022 Since the season, the top two seeds get byes to the Division Series. The top-seeded team hosts the fourth-fifth winner, and the second seed, third-sixth winner. The Wild Card round was expanded to a best-of-three series, and the winners of that round would advance to the Division