Welcome to the 17th World Baseball Classic, hosted by Lycrabon. The WBC is the premier international baseball competition in NationStates Sport, and your team is one of 36 competing to become World Champions.
Teams have been drawn into 6 groups of 6 and will play each team in their group twice, once home, once on the road. For the group stages, your own team's ballpark(s) will be used.
You should now feel free to post RPs - and your rosters. A roster is a list of the names of your players - but you can include other information. This could include: positions, handedness, strengths and weaknesses, averages and statistics, WBC history, domestic history. You could also include pictures of your stadium and information about it, your uniforms, and your coaching staff. (Please try to minimize picture spam, however, please and thank you.) When each team uploads their roster information, we will be so kind and create a link from this post to their rosters for easy reference.
The Designated Hitter (DH) Rule will be used only if the home team uses the DH. If the home team does not use the DH, neither team will use the DH. If the home team has not specified (either on their roster thread or through a previous RP) the use of a DH in their stadium, then whomever RPs first will dictate whether or not a DH was used in the game.
In your Roster Posts it is helpful to include the following:
Choose my runscorers: Y / N
Choose my lineup: Y / N
Follow my Pitching Rotation: Y / N
Godmod scoring events: Y / N, any caveats
RP injuries to my players: Y / N, any caveats
Godmod injuries to my players: Y / N
Eject my players: Y / N, any caveats
Godmod other events: Y / N, any caveats
Games will be scorinated between 7:00 - 8:00pm EST / 1900-2000 UTC every game day.
NOTE: The schedules may or may not correspond to what's listed for any particular day (as Margaret in another competition is flipping me the bird). The home-and-home will be maintained; if it happens to be not in the listed order, that is why. I'm just answering that question in case she gives me the finger here.
The Group Stage will consist of home and home games played by each of the group participants. The total number of games played will equal 14 by the end of the Group Stage (play each team twice in your group).
Day 1: December 5
Day 2: December 6
Day 3: December 7
Day 4: December 8
Day 5: December 9
Day 6: December 10
Day 7: December 11
Day 8: December 12
Day 9: December 13
Day 10: December 14
PLAYOFFS
Round 1:
Game 1: December 16
Game 2: December 17
Game 3:December 18
Quarterfinals (Bracket listed with First Round Game 3):
Game 1:December 20
Game 2:December 21
Game 3:December 22
Semifinals (Matchups listed with Quarterfinal Game 3):
Game 1: December 24
Game 2:December 26
Game 3: December 27
Game 4: December 28
Game 5:December 29
Championship/Third place:
Game 1: December 31
Game 2: January 1
Game 3: January 2
Game 4: January 3
Game 5: January 4 (Deciding game of the third-place series)
Championship Game 6: January 5
Championship Game 7: January 6
Day 1
1 at 6
2 at 5
3 at 4
Day 2
5 at 1
4 at 6
3 at 2
Day 3
1 at 4
5 at 3
6 at 2
Day 4
3 at 1
2 at 4
6 at 5
Day 5
1 at 2
3 at 6
4 at 5
Day 6
6 at 1
5 at 2
4 at 3
Day 7
1 at 5
6 at 4
2 at 3
Day 8
4 at 1
3 at 5
2 at 6
Day 9
1 at 3
4 at 2
5 at 6
Day 10
2 at 1
6 at 3
5 at 4
The Playoff Stage will commence two days after the Group Stage has been completed. After the completion of the Group Stage, the top 16 teams (top 2 in each group, best 4 third-place teams) will be determined.
All Playoff Series Held at Neutral Venues in Lycrabon.
Teams will be ranked in their respective groups using these criteria for tiebreakers:
1. Overall Record (winning percentage)
2. Head-to-Head Record
3. Total Run Differential
4. Total Runs Scored
5. Coin Flip
For ties between teams in different groups:
1. Overall Record (winning percentage)
2. Total Run Differential
3. Total Runs Scored
4. Runs Scored/9 innings
5. Coin Flip
Groups will be posted shortly.