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About World Series

The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, played between the champions of the American League and the National League to determine the league's overall champion for that season. The start date of the World Series shifts every year and does not follow a fixed calendar formula, since it depends on the length of the regular season and the pacing of the preceding rounds of postseason play, which can vary depending on how many games each individual playoff series requires. In recent years the series has generally begun in the second half of October, but because the exact start date is only finalized once the league championship series in both leagues conclude, reliable specific dates for future years cannot be published far in advance the way a fixed-formula holiday can. The series follows a best-of-seven format, with home-field advantage determined according to league rules that have varied over different periods of the sport's history, continuing until one team wins four games. As one of the oldest continuously contested championship series in North American professional sports, the World Series carries substantial historical weight and tradition, including its own set of long-standing pregame ceremonies and broadcast customs that have developed over more than a century of play. A common misconception is assuming the World Series begins on a predictable, fixed date each year; because the start date depends on the conclusion of the earlier postseason rounds, whose length varies from year to year, the exact date is genuinely not knowable with confidence until relatively close to the event itself.

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