Welcome to the 47th World Baseball Classic! Teams from 42 nations will soon compete, with the best 16 traveling to the Free Republics to determine the best baseball team in the multiverse. For some of those teams, this is their first time competing in the most prestigious international baseball tournament. For others, this is just another chapter in a long series of tournaments. For the Free Republics, this is an opportunity to defend our World Baseball Classic 46 title on our home soil. OOCly, this tournament marks the return of style modifiers and park factors to the World Baseball Classic. This tournament also marks the WBC debut of the Casaran format. Teams will play 8 series of 2 home games and 2 road games. Below, you will find a list of all nations that are signed up for this tournament. Their rankings and pots for the Series 1 draw are available in the 2nd post.
Participating Nations
A Mushroom Kingdom (UR)
Abanhfleft (18)
Aeprelh (UR)
Anthor (29)
Banija (7)
Bliuji (UR)
Bolgano (UR)
Cassadaigua (1)
Chromatika (UR)
Damukuni (UR)
Devonta (34)
Drawkland (20)
Equestrian States (19)
Ethane (10)
Free Republics (2)
Furby Island (UR)
Greater Cebu (UR)
HUElavia (UR)
Hampton Island (8)
Hapilopper (28)
Joshenia (UR)
Kita-Hinode (45)
Ko-oren (9)
Lisander (22)
Liventia (12)
Nazi Flower Power (UR)
Newmanistan (3)
Nooooooooooooooo (UR)
Nova Anglicana (11)
Rusticus (UR)
Saintland (24)
South Covello (31)
St Saratoga (27)
Terre Septentrionale (UR)
The Greater Nordics (17)
The Royal Kingdom of Quebec (66)
The Sarian (UR)
The Sherpa Empire (6)
Tornado Queendom (32)
Volinovia (UR)
West Phoenicia (4)
Xanneria (26)
The format for this WBC will be a Casaran, with each team playing a total of 32 games in the Casaran stage against 8 opponents (2 home and 2 away). Matchups will be determined based upon each team's record with teams being matched against teams that have similar records. A strict no Casaran stage rematches rule will be in effect. The top 16 teams in the final standings will advance to the Playoffs which will be seeded based upon the final Casaran stage standings. Should there be a tie for 16th and 17th place at the end of the Casaran stage, the tied teams will be guaranteed at least a tiebreaker playoff game in the Free Republics for a spot in the Round of 16. The tiebreaker format is described in more detail in the host bid.
The first series will be scorinated on MONDAY, OCTOBER 14th at the earliest. You may post your rosters and RPs at any time. Please use the WBC Discussion Thread for purely OOC posts and comments and reserve this thread for rosters, RPs and results.
If you wish to use umpires in your RPs, we do have an Umpire Thread, which has (unfortunately) not been used in a long time. If you wish to add umpires to this thread, feel free to do so.
Rosters
Rosters are a list of your players, the positions they occupy and your team's home stadium(s). This can also include statistics, both personal and about their play, as well as their handedness, stengths and weaknesses, uniforms, nicknames, coaches, or anything else you find appropriate. You can find examples of rosters in last WBC's thread, starting here and continuing for the remainder of the first page.
Rosters are appreciated and there will be a roster bonus for nations that post rosters. Rosters may include a RP permissions box (godmodding, injuries, choosing scorers, etc.) if players want to put restrictions on the roleplaying of their characters. Here is an RP box form that you could copy and paste into your roster post:
- Code: Select all
My opponent, if they RP first, may do the following:
Choose my runscorers: Yes/No
Choose my lineup: Yes/No
Follow my pitching rotation: Yes/No
Godmod scoring events: Yes/No
RP injuries to my players: Yes/No
Godmod injuries to my players: Yes/No
Eject my players: Yes/No
Godmod other events: Yes/No
Use DH at home: Yes/No
Style Modifier:
Park Factor:
RP permissions boxes will only be enforced by the host if a roster is posted with them. Involving the host in an RP permissions dispute should be a last resort. Please make an attempt to address the issue before getting me involved. If you're planning to RP anything that might be borderline regarding somebody's RP permissions, please discuss it with them first.
Style Modifiers and Park Factors
Baseinator utilizes style modifiers and park factors. The style modifiers work like style modifiers everywhere else is NS Sports. Any number between -5 and 5 (including decimal numbers such as -3.14 and 3.14) is a valid style modifier. Negative numbers signify a team built around pitching and defense while positive numbers signify a team built around hitting. Baseinator style modifiers do not alter the margin of victory under any circumstances, so there is no need to worry about the effects of choosing positive or negative modifiers on your team's run difference. Instead, they add or subtract runs from both teams. A style mod of -5 is the most pitching-oriented while a style mod of 5 is the most hitting-oriented. A style mod of 0 is considered neutral (a team equally balanced between pitching/defense and hitting).
Park factors work slightly differently. The park factor is a number reflecting the home team's ballpark, which acts as an additional style modifier. Park factors range from 50 to 200, with 100 signifying a neutral ballpark. A park factor near 200 signifies a park comparable to RL Coors Field from the 1990s. A park factor near 50 signifies a pitchers park as extreme as 1990s Coors Field. You may find a list of RL park factors useful. You may specify up to 8 park factors (one for your home games during each series) provided that your team plays each series in a different ballpark. You may not specify 2 different park factors for the same series as I will be scorinating the entire series at the same time. During the playoffs, the park factors for my ballparks will be in use.
New to baseball RPing, or sports RPing in general?
If you're new to sports RPing in general, please read this thread, as it provides a great guide for what you need to know. If you have any questions, you can send a TG to Free Republics, post on the WBC Discussion Thread, or on the Sports Roleplaying Questions thread. You can also utilize the NS Sports Discord to either contact me or ask questions.
One thing unique to baseball is the designated hitter, a feature often confusing to newcomers. For explanation, I turn to Equestrian States' concise summary:
Equestrian States wrote:The Designated Hitter (DH) Rule is an aspect that is unique to baseball here on NS Sports. In short, the DH rule allows for teams to designate a player to bat for their pitcher, generally giving teams more flexibility when at bat. For more information on the DH rule and its implementation, please refer to the Wikipedia article on the subject, as it goes into far more detail than I can here. In regards to the WBC, the DH rule is only used if the home team uses a DH. If the home team does not use a DH, neither team will use the DH, regardless of the away team’s preference. If the home team has not specified (in their roster or an RP) whether they use a DH or not, the first participant to RP will dictate the use/nonuse of the DH in that game.
IC information, as well as the group draw, is provided in the posts below.
Helpful Links
World Baseball Classic Discussion Thread
My bid
Signup Thread