Editing Playoffs (section)

===National Rugby League===
Play-offs are used to decide the premiers of the [[National Rugby League]] (NRL) in Australasia, where they are known as ''finals'' (also as ''semi-finals'' or ''semis'') – as in Australian rules football, the participating teams only come from within a single division, and the tournament is staged as single matches rather than a series. Currently, in the NRL, eight teams qualify for the finals; starting with the 2012 season, the system was changed from the [[McIntyre final eight system|McIntyre final eight]] to the [[AFL final eight system|same system used by the AFL]].

Previously, the term play-off was used in the [[New South Wales Rugby League premiership|NSWRL]] and [[Brisbane Rugby League|BRL]] competitions to describe matches which were played as tie breakers to determine qualification for the finals series. Since 1995, points differential decides finals' qualification and play-offs are no longer held.