Refused, not missing
Connection refused is a specific answer. The domain resolves, the request arrives at a real machine, and that machine declines it immediately -- nothing is listening on the port, or something is deliberately turning it away.
It is faster than a timeout and just as final.
Sacramento already carries a NABA league in these records that has run since 1993, publishes its 2025 champions, warns players about parking at its grounds and prints its president's mobile number on the front page. This is the other Sacramento league, and it says nothing to anyone.
The difference between the two is not the size of the competition. It is that one of them has an address that answers.
A High Cheese league page keeps the schedule, the standings and every roster at an address the league owns, on a server that responds -- which is the entire and only requirement for being findable.
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