Ranked on points, then runs allowed
The 40+ table reads: Huntsville Dirtbags 16-0-1 on 33 points with 81 runs against, Madison Braves 14-4 on 28, River City Rippers 11-7 on 22, Huntsville Bandits 8-8-2 on 18, Huntsville Trash Pandas 8-9-1 on 17, Rocket City Mudcats 6-11-1 on 13, Huntsville Cubs 5-5-1 on 11, Huntsville Indians 5-13 on 10, Madison Mayhem 1-17 on 2. The published tiebreaker is points, then runs against.
Ties earn a point and runs against decides everything else, which is an unusual and defensible way to rank a league playing twice a week on borrowed fields. The 25+ division has its own table behind the same selector. Standings on High Cheese come out of the games themselves and apply a league's own tiebreakers automatically, so a two-division season stays consistent without anybody recalculating it.
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.
- Every result, filterable by club and division, with forfeits marked separately.
- 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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