Competitive, and unpriced
The league describes itself as competitive adult baseball and publishes no cost, no deadline and no sign-up route. What it does publish is the thing a prospective player most wants: the actual competitive picture, division by division.
Somebody in Austin looking at the 48+ table can see there are four clubs, that the Astros are 3-15, and that the top three are within three points of each other. That is a far better recruitment pitch than a paragraph, and it stops one step short of telling him how to join.
High Cheese gives a league a join page that states the price and the deadline and shows which of twenty-six rosters have room.
Austin MSBL in detail
- Twenty-six clubs across five age divisions, and the fullest standings table in adult baseball.
- Games played run to eighteen a club, and no fixture list is published.
- Five divisions, runs scored and allowed on every line, and a points column worth reading.
- No box scores, but runs scored and allowed for every club in the league.
- Twenty-six clubs named across five divisions, and no players published.
- Team run totals are published. Nothing about a player is.
- No name, email or phone number is published.
- No ballparks are named.
- One rule is legible from the table: three points for a win, one for a tie.
- No news or announcements.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- No postseason is described.
- No founding year and no past seasons are published.
- Nobody is named as running it.
- The competitive picture is answered in full. Everything practical is not.
- No handbook, waiver or bylaws are published.
- Roughly eighteen games a club, with no dates attached to any of them.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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