In previous decades, the common venues for the league's playoffs stages were the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay, Blue Eagle Gym in Quezon City, Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Manila, and the PhilSports Arena in Pasig.
Since 2012, all playoff games (including seed-determining matches, semifinals and championship series) are now played at the Araneta Coliseum and the Mall of Asia Arena.
In that same year, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) won all fourteen games and were awarded the championship trophy, scrapping the postseason.
In the new rule, a team which finishes the elimination round has a bye to the finals and the championship is a best-of-3 series only, while the other three teams will play in a stepladder semifinals round with the number 2 seed getting a twice-to-beat advantage.
By 2009, it was instituted that "common sense" will be used to break ties to avoid "senseless" games.
[5] This list includes men's basketball games played under the final four format since the 1994 season, a year after the format was instituted, and one-game playoffs in which teams tied after the elimination round for a final four berth played an extra game to determine which team clinches the higher seed in the playoffs.