An identity system with no numbers attached
The league publishes no statistics. What it does maintain is a searchable player index with ID numbers, used to check that the man on the roster is the man on the ID.
That is the harder half of the problem already solved. This league knows who its players are across seasons and clubs; it simply does not record what they did.
Scoring on High Cheese produces those figures as a byproduct and attaches them to the player rather than the club, which is exactly what an ID number is for.
Aztec Baseball League in detail
- Thirty clubs in the Inland Empire, a twelve game season, and a league that publishes what it costs.
- Twelve games a club, and no fixture list, because the permits are not back.
- No table is published, though results and champions are.
- A full weekend published, including a 28-1 and four games that never got played.
- Eighteen players and one manager, verified against a photo ID, with a player ID number each.
- One address, [email protected], and a Tuesday meeting anyone can attend.
- $1,500 a team, at least $750 before the first game, all of it before game five.
- The league keeps a fields page and is waiting on permits to be approved.
- A complete uniform, defined item by item, and a game that cannot be played without eighteen of them.
- Meeting notes, rule changes, weekend highlights and a championship photo.
- Player Pics is a searchable index, and there is a championship home run in it, slightly blurred.
- A sponsor letter is published for clubs to use.
- A championship series, and three champions crowned: Yaquis, Rangers and Cerveseros.
- A Previous Seasons section, a Previous Games archive, and champions named this year.
- No officers are named, though the league meets in person on Tuesdays.
- This league answers four of the five questions outright, which nothing else here does.
- League bylaws, a protest form, a minor release and a sponsor letter, all published.
- Twelve games, finishing before Thanksgiving, with Labor Day the only holiday off.
- No store, and a uniform rule that obliges every club to buy properly.
- No crew is named, and a protest form exists for when a call is disputed.
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