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League Information
League Name: National Baseball League
The National League is the top-tier league of the British Baseball League, with the aim of establishing flagship British Baseball clubs.
League rules of note
Forfeits
If a team is deemed to have forfeited a league game, the result will be recorded as a loss for the forfeiting team and win for the opposition team. The scoreline will award one run to the winning team for every inning of the regulation-length game (e.g. 7-0 in a seven inning game; 9-0 in a nine-inning game).
BBF league rules state that for every two league games a team forfeits within a single season it will have one win deducted from its current season win-loss record and converted into a loss by way of penalty.
The penalty will be applied immediately in the standings (as opposed to at the end of the season). If a team has not won any games prior to incurring the penalty, it will remain on 0 wins in the standings. The penalty will be applied as soon as the team records a win later in the season.
Tiebreaker Rule
[2008 BBF Handbook Section 4.6]
Teams are positioned in the standings based on their win-loss record and games-back. Two or more teams are deemed to be tied when they either have identical win-loss records or have played an unequal number of games but there is no difference between their games-back column. Please note that runs-for, runs-against and runs-difference are not taken into consideration at this point.
In either case, the tie would be broken by using the following criteria in the order given:
1. The team that has forfeited the fewest number of games during the season is placed first, the team that has forfeited the next fewest number of games is placed second and so on.
2. If still level, then the head-to-head results between the tied teams should be used to establish
placings.
3. If still level, then the team that has conceded the fewest runs in games between or among the tied
teams is placed first, the team that has conceded the next fewest number of runs in those games
is placed second, and so on.
4. If still level, then the number of runs per game conceded by the tied teams across the whole of
the league season should be used to determine placings.
More detail and an overall list of BBF rules can be found in the BBF Handbook and Byelaws in the Downloads section of the site.
Web Commissioner: Tim Stride Send email
Contact: Aspi Dimitrov Send email
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