One rule, and it is the important one
No rulebook renders on the readable page. What the league does publish is its postseason format: league playoffs are a best-of-three series in each round, beginning mid-August, with the championship series over Labor Day weekend.
Best-of-three in every round, rather than single elimination, is a real decision. It costs weekends and it means the better side usually wins, which is what a league founded in 1996 has presumably learned to prefer.
High Cheese keeps a league's rules beside its schedule.
Central Ohio MABL in detail
- Founded 1996, ten clubs, mid-April to early August, and a championship over Labor Day weekend.
- Scores and schedule kept together, with a weather page beside them.
- Season standings and all-time standings, kept as two separate tables.
- Home run totals by player, and cup scores going back to 2015.
- Ten clubs, a player search, a team search, and all-star places allocated by standing.
- League leaders in hitting and pitching, and a team that fails to enter stats loses its all-star places.
- The league president, by email, plus Twitter and Facebook.
- A New Player Form, and a season you can plan around before you fill it in.
- A Complexes section, and Beavers Field in Lancaster named for the all-star game.
- Written by Charles McCroskey, a Hall of Famer, and credited as such.
- No album or gallery renders.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- An inter-league all-star game dating to 1998, with Columbus leading 14-13-1.
- Ten Cups, never a series lost, and a 164-71 record against the league across town.
- A league president, a Hall of Fame, and division champions who manage the all-star sides.
- Four of five answered, and the season dates are the best in the directory.
- A New Player Form, and a News Archive going back years.
- Mid-April to early August, playoffs from mid-August, the final over Labor Day weekend.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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