What is the Meaning & Definition of playoff

New chance in the framework of a sports competition

The playoff is a concept that is used mostly at the behest of a competition, particularly from sports, to describe the situation of having or giving a new opportunity, chance, possibility, a player or team within the framework of a competition.

Rematch to continue participating in a competition or pass to a higher court

Generally, the playoff can be granted by way of revenge, who are competing, so that they can have one chance more to classify in a tournament or pass to a second instance of the competition in question.

The Repechage in football and other sports

The most common examples of Repechage are given in the field of soccer.

In local tournaments of first division of some countries like Argentina there is the instance of the Repechage in which will play those teams whose average table marks his demotion and those who are likely to climb level because they have made a good tournament in the immediately subsequent to the first category to.
The playoff mode consists of that equipment to descend facing against the team that has a chance of climbing. To ensure fairness and that both have the same chance two games will be played so that each one can be local once. In football there is a consideration which when it is local in a match that will certainly play in favor in the development.
Following in the football qualifying tournament which is played in some parts of the world to determine which teams will compete the next world also there is the figure of the Repechage.
In the eliminatory South Americans are four selections that have a safe place in the world and that clear will be the four classified first. Now, to that selection was in fifth place will be a new possibility of classifying playing the popular Repechage against another selection that does not form part of the South American football Confederation (CONMEBOL).
In the last two editions of the above qualifiers, Uruguay, played the Repechage and winner of the same came out allowing him to compete in the World Cup.
There are other sports, like tennis, which also uses the form of the Repechage to compete in tournaments, this is the case of the Davis Cup, thus allowing that more teams are able to play it.