Two formats, deliberately
AAA settles its postseason in best-of-three series, which suits a seven-inning league that already plays doubleheaders. AA, playing nine-inning singles, goes single elimination in September.
Matching the playoff format to the game length rather than applying one bracket across the whole organisation is the sort of decision that follows from having a separate commissioner for each league.
No champion from any year is published, in any of the three competitions.
A title recorded on a High Cheese league page keeps the bracket, the series and the winning roster attached to the year, so a best-of-three in AAA reads as three games rather than a name.
Rochester Baseball League in detail
- Three leagues, one of them built specifically for men who never played college ball.
- Three different calendars — AAA from mid-May, AA from late April, each with weeknights.
- Playoffs are seeded across three leagues; no table is published.
- No result is published.
- Eleven clubs across three leagues, and every 2026 draft pick published by round.
- No statistics are published.
- Four officers with addresses on the league's own domain.
- A free agent form for new players, feeding a published draft.
- No ballpark is named.
- Seven innings and doubleheaders in AAA, nine innings and singles in AA, and a twenty-year college bar in A.
- The front page carries the draft results, and a marketing director was appointed in 2025.
- No gallery is published.
- Four backers, two of them bat makers — including one that makes Rochester maple.
- Inducted into the NABA Hall of Fame in 2006, with a commissioner in post since 2010.
- Every officer named with the year they took the role, and a board of six chosen in 2025.
- Which league am I in — and the answer depends on when you last played college ball.
- An RBL Rule Book is published from the front page.
- AA from late April, AAA from mid-May, playoffs in August and September.
- Nothing is for sale by the league.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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