Recorded properly, including the ones nobody enjoyed
The results run game by game with a status flag: Huntsville Cubs 20 Madison Mayhem 1 on 8/4, Trash Pandas 22 Mayhem 5 on 7/30, Dirtbags 22 Mayhem 2 on 7/28, Indians 23 Mayhem 6 on 7/26. The schedule carries forfeits under their own code, FFT-L, scored 0-0 rather than folded into a real result.
Madison Mayhem is a new club in a division that has more than doubled in two years, and a first season at 1-17 is what that costs — the league records it straight rather than quietly. Separating a forfeit from a played game is the right bookkeeping. On High Cheese a final entered once becomes the box score, the standings line and the season record together, with forfeits kept distinct.
Huntsville MSBL in detail
- Two divisions across Huntsville, Madison and Decatur, twenty games each, ending in double elimination.
- Every game with a start time, an end time, a venue and a status, plus an iCal feed.
- Dirtbags 16-0-1 at the top, points and runs against as the only tiebreak.
- Dirtbags, Braves, Rippers, Bandits, Trash Pandas, Mudcats, Cubs, Indians and Mayhem.
- Twenty-eight columns per club, individual leader boards in six categories, and no numbers.
- Philip Ellis, League President, on 256.714.2828 — the one office published.
- A signed online waiver before anything, and a president who will help you start a club.
- Twenty-two venues across three towns, with a red-amber-green availability board.
- Three rulebooks — a general one, one for the 25+ and one for the 40+.
- A tournament notice, a season preview — and a banner still advertising 2022.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- A tournament with published pool and seeding rules, and a toteboard tracking runs against.
- No founding year, but a growth curve the league writes down every January.
- A president, and a page built for a board that has one row in it.
- Who, where, when and how to join are all answered. Only the fee is missing.
- Player contracts, division rulebooks, tournament forms, and pre- and post-game procedures for one field.
- Sundays and one weeknight, twenty games, with Saturdays held for rainouts.
- Nothing is for sale.
- The schedule has a column for them; it is empty on every game.
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