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Originally Posted by khucke
Step 8 : No playoff. I don' know if there was a playoff in AAA during these years.
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Playoffs prior to 1933 were limited to those leagues which used a split-season format. (From 1901-32, out of a total of 890 league-seasons, there were 250 league-seasons which used the split-season format. That works out to 28%. It was mostly used by the lowest two levels of minor leagues, which accounted for nearly 80% of split-season usage.)
Beginning in 1933, the International and Texas Leagues adopted the 'Shaughnessy' playoff format in which the top four clubs at the end of the regular season qualified for the playoffs. It was widely adopted by other minor leagues within a few years. (By 1937 there were 27 leagues using the format; the 11 other minor leagues all used the split-season format).