All teams participate
The postseason format is published and unusual: single-elimination playoffs for each of the six age groups, followed by a best-of-three championship series, and all teams participate in the post-season single-elimination tournament.
No qualification, no seeding cut-off, no team going home in July.
The league keeps a Playoff Central section for it, separate from its season schedules, and a League Champions page for the results.
A championship recorded on a High Cheese league page keeps the bracket, the series and the winning roster attached to the season and the age group, so six simultaneous knockouts become six readable competitions rather than one page.
Washington DC MSBL/MABL in detail
- Six age groups from 18 to 68-and-over, wood bat, across three jurisdictions.
- Six separate spring and summer schedules, one per age group.
- Parity is the stated goal, and every division needs a table to measure it.
- Results feed six sets of standings and a universal playoff.
- Six age groups divided further into leagues and divisions.
- Three honour rolls imply a statistical record; none is public.
- A contact page, an interest form, and separate team and player logins.
- Separate fall registration for four brackets, plus a free agent and waiting list.
- A locations section and a live field status page.
- A league rules section, and wood bats throughout.
- A dated league digest, published as its own section.
- No gallery is published.
- No sponsor is named.
- A history page, a champions page, and three separate honour rolls.
- A Hall of Fame, a Lifetime Achievement Award and a League Commissioner Award.
- A FAQ, an interest form, and the season shape published outright.
- League rules, a dated digest, and payments handled on site.
- Early April to mid-August, with a separate fall season for four brackets.
- Nothing is for sale; a Hardballers section exists.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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