Men's Baseball WBSC World Baseball Classic 2023

[phelps 7,677]

8 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

So while Saturday's games are still going, Sunday's games are going to start in a few hours.

 

Nothing too interesting in Pool B. Korea will hope their disastrous tournament doesn't get worse against the Czech Republic. Japan and Australia face off for the top seed in the Pool.

 

Final day in the Pool of Chaos (Pool A). Sunday is going to be a lot of fun. Here's the scenarios:

 

Scenario 1:

 

Taiwan beats Cuba, Netherlands beats Italy:

 

Taiwan finishes 1st. Netherlands finishes 2nd. Cuba is forced to requalify for the 2026 tournament.

 

Scenario 2:

 

Cuba beats Taiwan, Netherlands beats Italy:

 

Netherlands finishes 1st. Cuba, Panama and Taiwan are tied at 2-2. Cuba would finish 2nd based on the head-to-head tie-breaker. Italy is forced to requalify.

 

Scenario 3:

 

Taiwan beats Cuba, Italy beats Netherlands:

 

Taiwan finishes 1st. Italy, Netherlands, and Panama are tied at 2-2. Since they would all have a head-to-head record of 1-1 against each other, the next tie breaker is used which is runs allowed per innings defended. Cuba is forced to requalify.

 

Scenario 4:

 

Cuba beats Taiwan, Italy beats Netherlands:

 

All 5 teams finish at 2-2. Runs allowed per innings defended would be used.

 

 

 

Right now, here's the runs allowed stats.

 

 Netherlands: 0.444

 Cuba: 0.538

 Panama: 0.600

 Italy: 0.615

 Taiwan: 0.889

actually, it's runs / defensive outs (so, the 3 extra outs played by  and  help them in the standings)...

 

updated after  destroying  

cub 0.139
ned 0.154

ita 0.191
pan 0.194

tpe 0.295

 

 are basically safe (PAN & TPE are done, ITA could only overtake them if they win X-0 in at least 11 innings vs

 

 must win by 4+ runs vs  (but allowing not more than 5) in 9 innings to go through to the next round.

 

 chances to avoid "relegation" are only  losing or winning but allowing 17+ runs to the NED.

 

 

[Topicmaster1010 4,182]

we are 2 innings away from complete chaos in pool A,

 

Japan secures 1st place in Pool B with a 7-1 win over Australia.

Edited March 12, 2023 by Topicmaster1010

[Gianlu33 4,574]

Yessss! 7-1 and still 1 inning and half to go

[Topicmaster1010 4,182]

It happened! Every team in Pool A finishes 2-2!

[Gianlu33 4,574]

Yesss! Tokyo, we are coming

[Topicmaster1010 4,182]

 Cuba and  Italy advance. Big chokes for Taiwan and the Netherlands

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

The chaos scenario happened!

 

The qualification group with Chinese Taipei will be useless, I feel sorry for the other five teams that will have to compete.

[Olympian1010 7,976]

Honestly, a lot of jersey designs this edition leave quite a bit to be desired.  are probably the worst three though.

 

 

[Topicmaster1010 4,182]

3 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

The chaos scenario happened!

 

The qualification group with Chinese Taipei will be useless, I feel sorry for the other five teams that will have to compete.

If it follows the same structure as the last qualifying tournament, then the other 5 teams will still be able to compete for another spot.

[Topicmaster1010 4,182]

Nicaragua still hanging on to a 1-0 lead over Israel