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id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Term for missing a match in sports</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For another use of the term in the sport of cricket, see <a href="/wiki/Bye_(cricket)" title="Bye (cricket)">Bye (cricket)</a>.</div> <p>In sports, a <b>bye</b> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Tournament#Knockout" title="Tournament">knockout (elimination) tournaments</a>, byes may be assigned either to reward the highest ranked participant(s), or randomly, to make a working <a href="/wiki/Bracket_(tournament)" title="Bracket (tournament)">bracket</a> if the number of participants is not a <a href="/wiki/Power_of_two" title="Power of two">power of two</a> (e.g. 16 or 32). </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Round-robin_tournament" title="Round-robin tournament">round-robin tournaments</a>, usually one competitor gets 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 <a href="/wiki/FIDE" title="FIDE">FIDE</a> for chess tournaments, provide pairings for even numbered pools and simply state that "Where there is an odd number of players, the highest number counts as a bye."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similar to the round-robin context, in league sports with weekly regular-season play such as <a href="/wiki/Gridiron_football" title="Gridiron football">gridiron football</a> or <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a>, a team not scheduled to play on a given week or fixture (competition period) can be said to be on its "bye week".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> (NFL). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elimination_tournaments">Elimination tournaments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Elimination tournaments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a standard <a href="/wiki/Single-elimination_tournament" title="Single-elimination tournament">single-elimination tournament</a>, 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 the winner moving on to the next round until only one champion remains. </p><p>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 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 <a href="/wiki/Bracket_(tournament)" title="Bracket (tournament)">bracket</a> byes are provided to automatically move certain participants into a later round without requiring them to compete in an earlier one. </p><p>When participants are ranked, participants with the highest ranking going into the tournament are given a bye to the second round, as it is generally seen as an advantage to be assured entry into a later round. In the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_playoffs" class="mw-redirect" title="National Football League playoffs">NFL playoffs</a>, for example, as of <a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_season" title="2020 NFL season">2020</a>, the division-leader with the best record in each conference is given a bye to the second round.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Football_League" title="Canadian Football League">Canadian Football League</a> (CFL) also grants a bye to its two division winners, directly to the division finals as four other teams compete in a semi-final week. In other tournaments where teams are unranked, random draw may be used to determine the byes. </p><p>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. </p><p>If the byes are all single first-round byes into the second round of 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). </p><p>In postseason tournaments sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_High_School_Activities_Association" title="Kansas State High School Activities Association">Kansas State High School Activities Association</a>, a team which has a bye is awarded a win. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Examples_from_Gaelic_football">Examples from Gaelic football</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Examples from Gaelic football"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the Provincial Championships of <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_football" title="Gaelic football">Gaelic football</a>, 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. </p><p>For example, below is an assessment of the 2012 Provincial Championships, and their use of the "bye". </p><p>Seven teams contested the <a href="/wiki/Connacht_Senior_Football_Championship#2012_Championship" title="Connacht Senior Football Championship">2012 Connacht Senior Football Championship</a>, so a quarter-final was not played by <a href="/wiki/Mayo_GAA" title="Mayo GAA">Mayo</a>. Mayo therefore advanced directly to the semi-final to await the winner of the game between <a href="/wiki/Leitrim_GAA" title="Leitrim GAA">Leitrim</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_GAA" title="London GAA">London</a>. </p><p>Eleven teams contested the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship#2012_Championship" title="Leinster Senior Football Championship">2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship</a>, so five teams were given first round byes. Three teams (<a href="/wiki/Carlow_GAA" title="Carlow GAA">Carlow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dublin_GAA" title="Dublin GAA">Dublin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wexford_GAA" title="Wexford GAA">Wexford</a>) played winners of the three preliminary matches, while the other two played each other in the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. </p><p>Six teams contested the <a href="/wiki/Munster_Senior_Football_Championship#2012_Championship" title="Munster Senior Football Championship">2012 Munster Senior Football Championship</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/MOS:BROKENSECTIONLINKS" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:BROKENSECTIONLINKS"><span title="The anchor (2012 Championship) has been deleted. (2024-07-29)">broken anchor</span></a></i>]</sup>, so two teams (<a href="/wiki/Clare_GAA" title="Clare GAA">Clare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cork_GAA" title="Cork GAA">Cork</a>) were permitted to advance to the semi-finals without playing a game in the quarter-finals. </p><p>Nine teams contested the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Senior_Football_Championship#2012_Championship" title="Ulster Senior Football Championship">2012 Ulster Senior Football Championship</a>, so only <a href="/wiki/Cavan_GAA" title="Cavan GAA">Cavan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donegal_GAA" title="Donegal GAA">Donegal</a> played in the preliminary round, while the other seven advanced via bye to the quarter-finals without playing a game in the preliminary round. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Double_byes""><span id=".22Double_byes.22"></span>"Double byes"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: "Double byes""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 the tournament eliminates the need for two byes in the previous round. </p><p>In the English <a href="/wiki/FA_Cup" title="FA Cup">FA Cup</a>, the football clubs in the top two <a href="/wiki/English_football_league_system#The_system" title="English football league system">league divisions</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/UEFA_Europa_League" title="UEFA Europa League">UEFA Europa League</a>, where teams from the <a href="/wiki/UEFA_coefficient" title="UEFA coefficient">highest-ranked nations</a> enter the group stage directly without having to go through qualification. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/WNBA" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">WNBA</a>, from 2016 to 2021, had granted double byes to the league's top two seeds, while the next two seeds got first-round byes for their <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Playoffs" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA Playoffs">playoffs</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I" title="NCAA Division I">NCAA Division I</a> basketball, the <a href="/wiki/2009_Big_East_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="2009 Big East men's basketball tournament">2009 Big East men's basketball tournament</a> 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 the third round of competition, the 5th-8th seeded teams given byes to the second round, and the bottom eight competed the first day. </p><p>Due to the <a href="/wiki/2010%E2%80%932014_NCAA_conference_realignment" title="2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment">realignment of major conferences</a>, "double byes" were no longer needed by the Big East after 2013, but were added by the <a href="/wiki/2013_SEC_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="2013 SEC men's basketball tournament">Southeastern Conference in 2013</a>, the <a href="/wiki/2014_ACC_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="2014 ACC men's basketball tournament">Atlantic Coast</a> and <a href="/wiki/2014_Atlantic_10_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="2014 Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament">Atlantic 10</a> conferences in 2014, the <a href="/wiki/2015_Big_Ten_Conference_men%27s_basketball_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament">Big Ten in 2015</a>, and after <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%932024_NCAA_conference_realignment" class="mw-redirect" title="2021–2024 NCAA conference realignment">another round of conference realignment</a>, the <a href="/wiki/2023_CAA_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="2023 CAA men's basketball tournament">CAA</a> and <a href="/wiki/2023_Sun_Belt_Conference_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="2023 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament">Sun Belt</a> in 2023, as well as <a href="/wiki/2024_American_Athletic_Conference_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="2024 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament">the American</a> in 2024, as each expanded beyond 12 teams. Various other conferences like the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Valley_Conference_men%27s_basketball_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament">OVC</a> offer "double byes" to the semifinals for their top two teams, while the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Conference_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament">WCC</a> 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. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Esports" title="Esports">Esports</a>, "double byes" are most commonly seen during the <a href="/wiki/ESL_Pro_League" title="ESL Pro League">ESL Pro League</a> event for the <i><a href="/wiki/Counter-Strike" title="Counter-Strike">Counter-Strike</a></i> series of games, awarded to the teams who won each of the groups during the group stage. "Triple byes" are currently used for <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>'s professional <i><a href="/wiki/League_of_Legends" title="League of Legends">League of Legends</a></i> league, known as the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Legends_Pro_League" title="League of Legends Pro League">LPL</a>, and are awarded to the top two teams during a split's regular season. Up until 2020, they were also used for <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>'s <a href="/wiki/League_of_Legends_Champions_Korea" title="League of Legends Champions Korea">LCK</a>, with the top team in their split's regular season automatically making the Final as a result. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hidden_byes_(play-in_games)"><span id="Hidden_byes_.28play-in_games.29"></span>Hidden byes (play-in games)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hidden byes (play-in games)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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. </p><p>From 2012 to 2019 and 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_postseason" title="Major League Baseball postseason">Major League Baseball playoffs</a> has included ten teams consisting of six division winners and four wild card teams (the top-ranked non-division-winners). The first round of the playoffs consists two <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_wild-card_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball wild-card game">wild-card games</a>: 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 the division winners. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/FA_Cup" title="FA Cup">FA Cup</a> also has certain teams compete in up to 6 preliminary rounds to qualify for the first round "proper". </p><p>Another example is the <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship">NCAA basketball tournament</a>, 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 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",<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though the play-in round and all eight of those teams are officially part of the tournament. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bye_weeks_in_football_leagues">Bye weeks in football leagues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bye weeks in football leagues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Certain professional <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gridiron_football" title="Gridiron football">gridiron</a> 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".) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Each <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a> team has one "bye week" during a normal season; this is placed on the team's schedule, usually falling between Week 4 and Week 12 inclusive.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/1960_NFL_season" title="1960 NFL season">1960</a> and <a href="/wiki/1966_NFL_season" title="1966 NFL season">1966</a> 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 <i>no</i> byes. The <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> (which at the time was a completely separate league, but later became the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">American Football Conference</a>) also had an odd number of teams in <a href="/wiki/1966_American_Football_League_season" title="1966 American Football League season">1966</a> and <a href="/wiki/1967_American_Football_League_season" title="1967 American Football League season">1967</a> following the addition of the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Dolphins" title="Miami Dolphins">Miami Dolphins</a>, leaving each team with two bye weeks. </p><p>The NFL returned to the use of the bye week in <a href="/wiki/1990_NFL_season" title="1990 NFL season">1990</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993</a> season spanned 18 weeks with each team having 2 bye weeks; it went back to 17 weeks with a bye week the next season through <a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_season" title="2020 NFL season">2020</a>. Since <a href="/wiki/2021_NFL_season" title="2021 NFL season">2021</a>, the season is 18 weeks long with a bye week and an additional 17th game. </p><p>Between <a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_season" title="1999 NFL season">1999</a> and <a href="/wiki/2001_NFL_season" title="2001 NFL season">2001</a>, the NFL had an odd number of teams (31) as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland Browns</a> <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns_relocation_controversy" title="Cleveland Browns relocation controversy">re-entering the league</a>. 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 the weekend after the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>. The league returned to having an even number of teams (32) in <a href="/wiki/2002_NFL_season" title="2002 NFL season">2002</a> with the addition of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Texans" title="Houston Texans">Houston Texans</a>, and implemented the current bye week system. </p><p>In the rare case of a game postponement that cannot be made up within the same week,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the NFL may revise bye weeks assignments in order to reschedule the delayed game, making the postponement week those teams' new "bye week": </p> <ul><li>Due to <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ike" title="Hurricane Ike">Hurricane Ike</a> in <a href="/wiki/2008_NFL_season" title="2008 NFL season">2008</a>, the <a href="/wiki/2008_Baltimore_Ravens_season" title="2008 Baltimore Ravens season">Baltimore Ravens</a>' and the <a href="/wiki/2008_Houston_Texans_season" title="2008 Houston Texans season">Houston Texans</a>' Week 2 matchup in Houston was postponed, which also impacted the <a href="/wiki/2008_Cincinnati_Bengals_season" title="2008 Cincinnati Bengals season">Cincinnati Bengals</a>' schedule. The Bengals–Texans game was moved to Week 8, which was the originally scheduled bye week for both of those teams. This allowed the Ravens–Texans game (and the Bengals' bye week) to be rescheduled in Week 10, the Ravens' original bye Week.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Due to <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Hurricane Irma</a> in <a href="/wiki/2017_NFL_season" title="2017 NFL season">2017</a>, the <a href="/wiki/2017_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="2017 Miami Dolphins season">Miami Dolphins</a> and <a href="/wiki/2017_Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_season" title="2017 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a> Week 1 game was rescheduled to Week 11, the originally scheduled bye week for both teams.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, several postponements occurred during <a href="/wiki/2020_NFL_season" title="2020 NFL season">2020</a>. The first one that saw the league move games during bye weeks involved the Week 4 matchup between the <a href="/wiki/2020_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="2020 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> and <a href="/wiki/2020_Tennessee_Titans_season" title="2020 Tennessee Titans season">Tennessee Titans</a>, which also impacted the <a href="/wiki/2020_Baltimore_Ravens_season" title="2020 Baltimore Ravens season">Baltimore Ravens</a>' schedule. The Steelers-Titans <a href="/wiki/Steelers-Titans_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Steelers-Titans rivalry">game</a> was moved to Week 7 (the Titans' original bye week) due to a rash of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> cases among the Titans organization. The Steelers <a href="/wiki/Ravens-Steelers_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Ravens-Steelers rivalry">matchup</a> with the Ravens (their original Week 7 opponent) was moved to Week 8 when they both had scheduled byes and would allow the Steelers and Titans to make up their matchup; the Ravens bye week was moved to Week 7.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ravens head coach <a href="/wiki/John_Harbaugh" title="John Harbaugh">John Harbaugh</a>, when asked about the schedule change, referenced the aforementioned changes with the Texans and Bengals in 2008 (his first year as Ravens head coach) and did not expect the changes to affect his team's planning.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The media may also sarcastically refer to 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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Traditionally, the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Football_League" title="Canadian Football League">CFL</a> has had nine teams and required bye weeks. Beginning 2018, each team has three bye weeks and 18 games over a 21-week regular season.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Australia's <a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">National Rugby League</a> (NRL), each team has three byes each season. With the competition expanding to an odd number of teams from the <a href="/wiki/2023_NRL_season" title="2023 NRL season">2023 NRL season</a>, one club is required to have a bye each round. During the representative period of the season (such as the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_League_State_of_Origin" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby League State of Origin">State of Origin</a>), 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 a weakened side. On the competition ladder, teams are typically awarded two points (equivalent to a win) during their bye week. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a>, which comprises an even number of clubs, gives each club a bye week in mid-season<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, as well as a bye the week before the <a href="/wiki/AFL_finals_series" title="AFL finals series">finals</a>. In <a href="/wiki/1915_VFL_season" title="1915 VFL season">1915</a>, <a href="/wiki/1919_VFL_season" title="1919 VFL season">1919</a> <a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">to 1924</a>, <a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_season" title="1942 VFL season">1942</a> <a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_season" title="1943 VFL season">and 1943</a>, <a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_season" title="1991 AFL season">1991</a> <a href="/wiki/1994_AFL_season" title="1994 AFL season">to 1994</a> and <a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_season" title="2011 AFL season">2011</a>, when there were an odd number of clubs competing, each club was given two byes. </p><p>In both leagues, and under many other professional and amateur sports leagues in Australia, higher placed teams do not earn byes during <a href="/wiki/Playoffs" title="Playoffs">finals</a>, 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 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. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/A-League_Men" title="A-League Men">A-League Men</a> also had bye rounds in the <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_A-League" title="2019–20 A-League">2019-20 season</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_A-League_Men" title="2024–25 A-League Men">2024-25 season</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> due to an odd amount of teams being in the competition after <a href="/wiki/Expansion_of_the_A-League_Men" title="Expansion of the A-League Men">expanding</a> the amount of teams in the league. The top two placed regular season teams earn a bye into the semi finals of the <a href="/wiki/A-League_Men_finals_series" title="A-League Men finals series">A League Finals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gymnastics">Gymnastics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Gymnastics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a variation of the round-robin case, at certain high-level competitions in <a href="/wiki/Artistic_gymnastics" title="Artistic gymnastics">artistic gymnastics</a>, teams cycle through the apparatuses in an "Olympic Order" with scheduled byes in between.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As an example, the <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Gymnastics_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships">NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships</a> has 36 teams with six teams apiece at six regional sites, with 12 advancing to two semifinal rounds of six that decide participants for the final "Super Six".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Rotation</th> <th>Vault</th> <th>BYE</th> <th>Bars</th> <th>Beam</th> <th>BYE</th> <th>Floor </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>Utah</td> <td>Kentucky</td> <td>Florida</td> <td>Oklahoma</td> <td>California</td> <td>Washington </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td>Washington</td> <td>Utah</td> <td>Kentucky</td> <td>Florida</td> <td>Oklahoma</td> <td>California </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>California</td> <td>Washington</td> <td>Utah</td> <td>Kentucky</td> <td>Florida</td> <td>Oklahoma </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td>Oklahoma</td> <td>California</td> <td>Washington</td> <td>Utah</td> <td>Kentucky</td> <td>Florida </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td>Florida</td> <td>Oklahoma</td> <td>California</td> <td>Washington</td> <td>Utah</td> <td>Kentucky </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td>Kentucky</td> <td>Florida</td> <td>Oklahoma</td> <td>California</td> <td>Washington</td> <td>Utah </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Swiss_system_tournaments">Swiss system tournaments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Swiss system tournaments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a <a href="/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament" title="Swiss-system tournament">Swiss-system tournament</a> with an odd number of players, one player gets a bye in each round, but not all players will get a bye (as there are fewer rounds than there are players). <a href="/wiki/FIDE" title="FIDE">FIDE</a> specifies that "pairing-allocated" byes in their sanctioned chess tournaments may not be awarded multiple times to the same participant. Contrasting use in some single-elimination brackets, the byes are to be allocated to the lowest-rated eligible player in the pool.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The AFL's bye weeks are staggered. For example, in the <a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_season" title="2023 AFL season">2023 AFL season</a>, weeks 12, 13, 14, and 15 were bye weeks, with two, four, six, and six teams having byes respectively.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bye_(sports)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bye">"Bye Definition & Meaning"</a>. <i>Dictionary.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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