Read out of the standings
No rulebook is published. What can be worked out from the printed columns is the scoring: every club's points total equals three times its wins plus its ties, consistently across all five divisions.
Ties are common here too, appearing in every division, which means games run to a clock and are recorded as they finished rather than being pushed to a decision.
That is two real rules a newcomer can only infer from arithmetic. High Cheese keeps a league's own rules beside its schedule, in words.
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.
- Five divisions to choose from and no published fee, deadline or form.
- No ballparks are named.
- 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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