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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
- The team who finishes in first place during the regular season gets a 1 game advantage in Stage Two regardless (it was only if they finished 5 games above the challenger).
- The home field will for the Second Stage will be played at the team's stadium who finished higher in the standings for the first two games, at the team's stadium who finished lower in the standings for the second two games (if necessary) (it was all games at the upper team's stadium).
- Even if two teams finish the season with the same winning percentage in first place, the First Stage will go on (Stage One would have been skipped up until now). However, the playoff winner does not change the mode by which the league victor is decided.
I'm not 100% sure about the translation of that last sentence. I could also translate that as saying that the mode remains the same as it has been for the last two years, this not changing anything. But I think I interpretted it right (although I think that it should have been a fourth point, not part of the third).Source: Nikkan Sports (paper edition).