To start, we have the Seeding Round. Do not let the name fool you as we are moving straight into high stakes competition. The Seeding Round will contain 67 leagues of 49 or 50 teams and only the top 25 teams in each league will remain in the tournament. Additionally, teams will have an opportunity to skip future rounds by performing at the top of each league. For example, the winners of the 67 leagues will automatically advance to the final 300 teams. See below for a more detailed explanation of how the seeding round works:
Teams: 3329
Leagues: 67 leagues of 49/50 teams
Schedule: 3 games against each opponent (144/147 games)
All playoff series are Best of 7
Top 8 teams advance to a playoff
1st advances to the Top 300 teams
2nd-4th advance to Round 3
5th-8th advance to Round 2
9th-16th compete in a single series (9th against 16th, 10th against 15th, etc.)
9th-12th advance to Round 2
12th-16th advance to Round 1
16th-24nd advance to Round 1 without competing in a playoff
25th-32nd compete in a last chance playoff
25th advances to Round 1 serving as essentially a last in to keep track of in future rounds
A link to the Full Results for the round (updated as they come in):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
A note:
In the seeding round expect some teams to get absolutely demolished. Some teams at the start of baseball had 1 or 2 pitchers for the whole season and they will have no option but to start them every day in a 144/147-game season. Their only hope will be to get a league setting year in the 1800s, where I will reduce the number of games to reflect the schedule of that era. Similarly, rosters for Negro League teams can be fuzzy so some of them may also lack the depth to perform up to snuff with MLB teams, even with a roster of 4- and 5-star players.