Two formats, and a way out of the region
Each division ends in its own bracket: double elimination after the 18+ summer season, single elimination after the fall league and the 32+ and 45+ seasons. Time limits apply in the playoffs but not in a championship game, and the run rule is suspended for the final. Beyond that sits the national body's circuit — the league quotes it directly: twenty-five regional tournaments and two nationals, the World Series in Arizona and the Fall Classic in Florida, which grew from 386 teams in 1998 to nearly 500 across three weeks and ten age brackets from 25 to 70.
Dropping the run rule and the clock only for the final is exactly the right instinct. High Cheese builds and runs a bracket off the standings the season already produced and applies the format each round actually uses, so a championship that has no time limit is scheduled as one.
Inland Northwest MABL/MSBL in detail
- Two hundred players across eastern Washington and north Idaho, May to October, wood bats.
- Four divisions on four different days, doubleheaders on Sundays, twenty minutes between games.
- Percentage, then head to head, then inter-division record, then runs against.
- Ties are final, five innings makes it official, and no result is published.
- Twenty-two clubs across four divisions, dressed as real franchises.
- Scored through GameChanger; nothing published on the league's own pages.
- Bret Fink, president, on 208-641-9255, plus a contact form.
- A workout on April 12, a draft, and a rule about who owns a new player.
- Local high schools, Hart Field for the workout, and occasional games at Avista Stadium.
- Replica uniforms only, wood bats, and a forfeit that punishes both clubs.
- Categories for 18+, 32+, league news and tournaments — and a standing call for players.
- A 2025 class of six, inducted at a golf club in Liberty Lake, each with a filmed citation.
- The rulebook makes room for a sponsor on the shirt; no sponsor is named.
- Champion and runner-up every year — Phillies five straight, then Rockies three.
- Bret Fink is president; three past presidents are named with their years.
- Who, when, where and how to join are answered. Only the fee is missing.
- A ten-section rulebook, waiver and application forms, and proof of age required.
- A workout in April, baseball from late May to October, and a fall league after the summer one.
- Replica uniforms are required; nothing is sold.
- An Umpire Coordinator, a two-hour rain deadline, and a bill if you miss it.
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