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Go to Individual Age Division for Specific Playoff Schedules
- IMPORTANT PLAYOFF INFORMATION -
APPLIES FOR O-28 & O-38 DIVISIONS
Player eligibility: For a player to be eligible for the playoffs he must have played in half of the teams regular season games. This means they must have played in 9 games for 28+ Division and 8 games for the 38+ Division, not just half of the games a team played. All teams must conform to the games played rule for eligibility. If you were involved in a forfeit, a forfeit win counts as a game played for eligibility purposes, a forfeit loss does not count as a game played. If you had players seriously injured before or during the year, you must have already notified your league president or the board to receive an exception for games on the DL. If you did not, games missed for injury do not count towards the required number of games played.
Time Limit: There is NO time limit in the playoffs. All games are 9-innings (unless tied) and are played to completion.
12-run Rule: There is NO 12-run rule in the playoffs. All games are played to completion.
Minimum players: You must have 8 players to start the game and you may play with 8 players. You may also "borrow" a player or players from the other team to fill up to the 9th position.
Minimum batting positions in lineup (PLAYOFF RULE ONLY): All teams must bat at least 11 positions in the batting order if you have at least 11 eligible players present. (If you choose to use the A/B option for positions below 9 this could mean 13 or more declared players in batting order). If you have 11 players, you must bat all 11, filling batting order positions 1 through 11 with individually named players. If you have fewer than 11 players present and eligible, then you would have fewer batting positions. However, in the playoffs (unlike the regular season) if one team can only fill fewer than 11 batting positions legally, then the opposing manager has the option to match his number of batting positions to the team with fewer than 11.
Alternate batters: Just as in the regular season, you may alternate between 2 players in the batting order for any batting position after the 9th. As an example you may have two players listed in the 10th or 11th or 12th (and so forth position). As a further example, you may have Alpha and Bravo listed in the 10th batting spot. The 10th spot comes to the plate in the second inning and Alpha bats. When the 10th spot next comes around (say, in the 5th inning), Bravo bats. On the next time you come to the 10th spot Alpha bats again. Once you declare a batting position to be A/B, then the position must remain A/B unless the player is injured or leaves. If a player in either the A or B position is substituted for in the order (substituting in the field is not relevant), then he may not reenter the order in another position during the same game. In other words, once declared the substitute rules are the same as if the player were in the leadoff or cleanup spot) . You do not have to declare a position as A/B at the beginning of the game, ie, you may add the B batter at any time during the game to an eligible batting order position (below 9), but once added, that position must remain filled with the same player or a legal substitute.
If there are any other league rules questions, Over-28 teams please forward them to Terry Annese, Over-38 teams to Lloyd Terry or Joe Basara before the games start. Failing to reach either of us, the two managers should agree on how to proceed. Remember this only applies to league rules. The umpires are the sole arbiters of baseball rule decisions on the field. Please respect their knowledge of those rules.
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