2024-25 CRBL season
| 2024-25 CRBL season | |
|---|---|
| League | CRBL |
| Sport | Baseball |
| Duration | Early September 2024 — early April 2025 |
| Number of games | 90 |
| Number of teams | 10 |
| Regular season | |
| Season champions | Mytilene Hoplites |
| Runners-up | Hartri Wolfpack |
| CRBL Finals | |
| Champions | Mytilene Hoplites |
| Runners-up | Ithaca Rabbits |
The 2024-25 Central Regional Baseball League season was the 28th season of the CRBL and the first one since the founding of the Jingoistic States of Ysqsylandia. This competition features clubs from the southern portion of the country. The season comprised a 90-game round-robin tournament, with a play-off series featuring the top fiveteams.
The season finished with the Mytilene Sport Club winning the CRBL Finals for the second time in a row. This time, they beat the Ithaca Rabbits 4 games to 2.
League news
- The postseason play-offs were expanded from four teams to five. The CRBL chose the McIntyre final five system, "so as to not devalue the regular season games". According to them, as an example, the team finishing 5th out of 10 would have to beat every other play-off team, as opposed to a top 2 team, which could win the tournament by winning only two series.
- At the end of the season, because of the Northern Baseball League folding, the CRBL announced that two teams from that league would join in season 2025-26: the Ysqsy City Capitals, from Ysqsy City; and the Matria Motherland, from Matrax, province of Matria.
Format
The regular season had 10 teams participating in a single group, in which every team played each other 18 times, for a total of 90 games. The top five would qualify to the post-season play-offs.
Play-off format
The play-offs were played using the McIntyre top five system.
- First round:
- Knockout round: best-of-5 series. #4 seed play against #5 seed. The winner qualifies to the minor semifinal, the loser is eliminated.
- Qualifying round: best-of-5 series. #2 seed play against #3 seed. The winner qualifies to the major semifinal, to play against #1 seed; the loser is "relegated" to the minor semifinal.
- Semifinals:
- Minor semifinal: best-of-5 series. The winner qualifies to the preliminary final. The loser is out.
- Major semifinal: best-of-7 series. The winner qualifies directly to the CRBL Finals. The loser goes on to the preliminary final.
- Preliminary final: best-of-5 series. The winner qualifies to the CRBL Finals. The loser is out.
- CRBL Finals: best-of-7 series. The winner wins this season's league.
Standings
| Pos | 2023-24 CRBL regular season | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | |
| 1 | Mytilene Hoplites | 90 | 59 | 31 | 0.656 |
| 2 | Hartri Wolfpack | 90 | 51 | 39 | 0.456 |
| 3 | Ithaca Rabbits | 90 | 50 | 40 | 0.556 |
| 4 | Deere Rovers | 90 | 45 | 45 | 0.500 |
| 5 | West Ithaca Roosters | 90 | 43 | 47 | 0.478 |
| 6 | Marche Noir Cats | 90 | 43 | 47 | 0.478 |
| 7 | Ayala Meringues | 90 | 41 | 49 | 0.456 |
| 8 | New Hobart Demons | 90 | 41 | 49 | 0.456 |
| 9 | South Coast Provincial Seagulls | 90 | 40 | 50 | 0.444 |
| 10 | Miserere Magpies | 90 | 37 | 53 | 0.411 |
- 5th seed tiebreaker: West Ithaca 4–1 Marche Noir
Postseason
| First round | Major semifinal | Preliminary final | CRBL Finals | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Mytilene | 4 | Mytilene | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Hartri | 3 | Ithaca | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | Hartri | 3 | Hartri | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ithaca | 2 | Minor semifinal | Ithaca | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Ithaca | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Deere Rovers | 3 | Deere Rovers | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | West Ithaca | 1 | ||||||||||||||||