2006 Best of The West Rules and Payouts
Managers please sign and return to your site. This is
your tournament waiver. The Maxim Yankees nor the playing sites are liable
for any injuries or any other problems.
Game Rules:
- 30 player roster must be submitted and finalized before your first game.
- Pool play games will be 9 innings (3 hour, there is no mercy
rule.
- The championship and playoff rounds will have no time limit.
- Before each game in pool play, the home team will be determined by a coin
toss.
- The games will be played using American League rules.
- The designated hitter will be allowed for the pitcher.
- No running for the catcher.
- No aluminum bats are allowed, only wood and composites.
- An ejection or suspension from a game will force that player or coach to
sit for the remainder of the game in which he is ejected and the following
game.
- Players must be 17 years or older to participate, unless cleared with the
tournament director (Jeff Thomas) and the insurance carrier.
- All protests must be filed immediately following the game and must include
a $50 forfeit fee. For a protest to be legal, the protest must be filed
with umpires before the next pitch or the protest will not be valid. The
final decision on all protests will be made by the tournament directors.
If a protest is upheld then the $50 will be refunded. If the protest is
lost, then the $50 fee will not be returned.
- There will be no batting practice or infield before games.
- Each team must provide one dozen NCAA D-1 approved baseballs to their
respective sites. The Maxim Yankees will provide baseballs for all games
played at Stanford.
- All hats and jersey's must match. No duplicate numbers.
- The two teams must designate an official book before the beginning of each
game. That book will then be used to help determine potential
tiebreakers.
Pool Play Rules:
Final roster and 1 dozen
d-1 Diamond or Rawlings R1NCAA balls only. They will to the coin toss to
determine home team before each game (30-45 minutes before game). All teams
must provide the signed tournament team waiver and roster before they can play
a tournament game. All players need to have their own uniform, hat, and # on
their jersey. All teams are responsible for helping retrieve foul balls on
their side of the stadium. All teams are responsible for cleaning up the
dugout after they play each game. Each site is allowing us to use their
awesome facilities and we need to take exceptional care of the field and be on
their best behavior! We want to come back to each site in the future and that
will depend on how each team represents the tourney at each site!
There will be a time
limit for all games. No inning may begin after 2:45 of play. If the time limit
is reached during the middle of the inning, the teams will play out the entire
inning.
Tie breakers - If 2
teams are tied then we will go to head to head to determine who advances. If
their game ended in a tie then we will go to the least total runs allowed in all
4 pool play games. The next tie breaker will be earned runs, followed by
total run differential. If three or more teams are tied, then the
tiebreaker will be least total runs allowed in the games against each other, followed by
least earned runs in the games verse each other, followed by total run differential in the
games against each other. If still tied the tiebreaker will be broken by
least total runs allowed in the 4 pool games
Championship Round:
- The first game on Sunday @ Sunken Diamond will be at 9 A.M. with the two
winners of the NorCal pools playing each other. The two SoCal winners
will then play at 12:30 P.M. The winners will then play at 5 P.M. for
the championship. The losers of games will play at 6 P.M. at Schott
Field (Santa Clara University) for third place.
Player Ethics and Code of Conduct
All players must be on their best behavior. Umpires and tournament
directors will not tolerate any misbehavior. Fighting will result in a
team's automatic disqualification from the tournament. Tournament
directors have the right to eject a team from the tournament for such behavior.
Foul language and "trash-talking" will not be tolerated. Umpires will have
the authority to warn a team they feel is out of line. A second warning
may result in forfeiture of the game. It is up to the team manager's to
control their teams behavior.
Payouts will be as follows:
- 1st Place- $10,000
- 2nd Place- $7,000
- 3rd Place- $5,000
- 4th Place- $3,000