Sold rather than described
The league lists tournaments among its miscellaneous payments, alongside signage, web page ads and fall ball. No bracket, format or past winner renders on the readable page.
A league of sixty teams running its own tournaments as a paid extra is operating at a scale where the postseason is a product.
High Cheese builds and runs a bracket seeded off the standings a league already keeps.
Chicago North MSBL in detail
- Thirty-nine seasons, six age divisions and between 56 and 60 teams.
- Schedules and results in one section, plus fall ball as a separate offering.
- Results are kept with the schedule; no table renders.
- Results share a section with the schedule and do not render.
- Between 56 and 60 teams, and the count itself is published as a range.
- A Stats section covering six divisions.
- A telephone hotline: 847-604-2444.
- A draft with tryouts, video of them, and a separate first-time registration once you are picked.
- A Fields section, for sixty teams across the north side and suburbs.
- League Info and Rules kept as one section, across six age divisions.
- No news or reports render.
- Tryout in Action, and a videos section beside it.
- Signage, web page ads, tournaments and fall ball, all payable online.
- A League History section, and a thirty-ninth season stated at the top of the page.
- Nobody is named as running it.
- How to get in is answered better than anywhere else here.
- COVID-19 waivers, still published, alongside registration forms.
- A main season and a fall ball offering, with no dates published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- Umpire registration has its own sign-up, beside the player one.
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