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	T-Ball	Coach Pitch	Modified Kid Pitch	Minors	Majors	Juniors
Pitching Distance			46’	46’	46’	60' 6"
Base Length	50’	50’	60’	60’	60’	90'
Bunting	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Balk	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Infield Fly	n/a	n/a	n/a	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stealing Bases Home	No No	No No	No No	Yes Yes	Yes Yes	Yes Yes
Leadoff	…Not	Until	Ball	Crosses	Plate…	...
Strike Zone	armpit/knees	armpit/knees	armpit/knees	armpit/knees	armpit/knees	armpit/knees
Maximum Runs Per Inning	5	5	5	5	5	5
Pitch Count Limits	n/a	n/a	50 pitches/day	Per Div Rules	Per Div Rules	Per Div Rules
Pitcher Rest	n/a	n/a	66+     4 days 51-65  3 days 36-50  2 days 21-35  1 day 01-20  none	66+     4 days 51-65  3 days 36-50  2 days 21-35  1 day 01-20  none	66+     4 days 51-65  3 days 36-50  2 days 21-35  1 day 01-20  none	66+     4 days 51-65  3 days 36-50  2 days 21-35  1 day 01-20  none
New Inning Start Time (hr:min) (1)	1hr	1hr 15min	1hr 30min	1hr 40min	1hr 50min	1hr 50min
Innings Per Game	6	6	6	6	6	6
Official Game (Innings)	3	3	3	4	4	4
3rd Strike Rule	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bat Size Restrictions (Maximum Allowed)	…No	Big Barrel	Bats…	Must Have BPF 1.15	Must Have BPF 1.15	Meet the Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution (BBCOR) performance standard, and such bats shall be so labeled with a silkscreen or other permanent certification mark.
Batting Order	Roster	Roster	Roster	Roster	Roster	Roster
Defensive Players Allowed	10 (2)	10 (2)	9	9	9	9
Minimum Number of Players (3)	8	8	8	8	8	8

Notes:

1. Time shown is measured from the scheduled start time.

2. The 10^th player must play as an outfielder, and may play any location in the outfield. All outfielders must play at least 20’ behind the baseline.

3. The minimum number of players required to start or continue a game

4. All coaches will be given an official LL rules book prior to season.

From the President at Quickscores, Tim Quilici, about how standings are determined.

     1 – Winning Percentage

     2 – Head-To-Head

     3 – Average Runs Allowed

     4 – Average Run Differential with a maximum of 10

     5 – Coin Flip


     ---  Total Runs For – Statistics Only

     ---  Total Runs Allowed – Statistics Only

If you look at the standings for any league, at the bottom is a yellow section with the legend for the various tie breakers. Click on any of the tie breakers in the legend and you will jump to a description of each of the various tie breakers.

Winning Percentage and Average Runs Allowed are pretty standard and don’t need any explanation. Head-To-Head is very standard as long as there are only two teams. When there are three or more teams, a lot of people get confused and too often use simple, but provably wrong, calculations. The documentation described above includes a long white paper (http://www.quickscores.com/Orgs/Head-To-Head_Tie-Breaker.pdf) about the Head-To-Head calculation. The Average Run Differential is pretty straightforward, except the Dallas Little League has elected to use a very common 10 run upper limit. The Run Differential is Runs Scored minus Runs Allowed, but with a max of 10 on any given game. So once a team finds itself ahead by at least 10 runs, it doesn’t gain any benefit in the tie breakers by increasing the lead to 15 or 20.

The Coin Flip criterion means that each team was assigned a unique random number when the schedule was created. If, on the exceedingly rare case that two teams are still tied after the first four criterion, the software ranks the teams according to that random number. I seriously doubt that you’ll ever see that situation, but it’s good for the software to have a guaranteed way to break any tie.

Your standings also include Total Runs For and Total Runs Allowed, but because they appear after the Coin Flip, they will never be needed to break a tie. Instead these two items are only displayed as statistics.