Decided by rule, published by nobody
A rain-shortened game is official and not rescheduled if the home team leads after four and a half or the visitors after five. Anything else resumes from the point it stopped, with the same lineups and late arrivals added at the end. A tie after the extra inning stands. A forfeit goes down 12-6. A game called for darkness is only replayed if it could change the standings or the playoff seeds.
Every one of those outcomes is defined precisely and none of them is published — no result appears anywhere on the site. On High Cheese a final entered once becomes the box score, the standings line and the season record together, so a game called at 10:30 tied is recorded the way the rulebook says it should be.
Ft. Worth MSBL in detail
- Two divisions, 25+ and 35+, run to a rulebook that has thought of everything.
- Filters for both divisions and every team, and not one game listed.
- A standings link, two divisions, and no table behind it.
- Twelve minimum, eight games to be eligible for the playoffs, and an ID challenge any time.
- The rules name an online statistics page. Nothing renders on it.
- A contact form, a rain-out line, and a protest window of 24 hours.
- A free agent form, a signed waiver, and a president who can assign you to a short club.
- A table headed Name, Address and Map, with nothing in it.
- Two and a half hours, nothing new after ten, and a forfeit scored 12-6 on purpose.
- An Announcements heading and a This Week's Events block, both empty.
- No album or gallery.
- Doc's Gloveworks and D-BAT Benbrook.
- Played to a winner, no matter how many nights it takes.
- No founding year or past champions are published.
- A president, an executive board, a disciplinary committee and a membership coordinator — none named.
- Who can play is answered exhaustively. Where and when are not answered at all.
- A liability waiver carrying an emergency contact, and a rulebook of eighteen headings.
- Weeknights ending at 10:30, rainouts pushed to the end of the season.
- Uniforms are required to a professional standard; nothing is sold.
- Paid per game, refunded on a suspension, and the plate umpire holds the clock.
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