Baseball asks for more names than any other board here: a batting order and the arms behind it. It also reaches furthest back — the record opens in 1871, before the mound was where it is now.
Read the full story ↓12 seats: C · 1B · 2B · 3B · SS · LF · CF · RF · DH · SP1 · SP2 · RP. Nine lineup spots, two starters and a reliever. Every one of them bats or throws across the schedule, so the weakest seat is not a rounding error — a soft bat in the seven-hole gives away games somewhere across the season no matter how loaded the top of the order looks.
A spin opens one club in one era, and baseball's eras sit further apart than any other sport's. The deadball years and the modern game barely resemble each other; the same city forty years apart is effectively two different franchises.
162 games — 162–0 for the sweep. A hundred and sixty-two games, every day from April to October, and no playoffs on this board. Baseball's best real teams lose a third of the time — the sport is built so the gap between the best and worst side on any given day is narrow.
Nothing in American sport is written down further back than this: 1871, with 355 hall-of-fame figures across a century and a half. Baseball also keeps a thicker paper trail than anything else here — weekly honours, wire-service All-Star teams, Gold Gloves — so a card from 1911 can still carry a citation, and the same city appears repeatedly as the genuinely different clubs it has been.
Rate stats swing hard with the run environment, which is why the honours carry the comparison: Gold Gloves, All-Star selections and the league-leading finishes were decided inside the season that produced them. How the ratings work · the full rulebook.
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From the baseball record book: how long a pro career lasts, the average MLB player, the perfect MLB season and every perfect season.
A round opens one club in one era and lays out that squad with its real season lines. You fill a batting order and the arms behind it, then the full schedule plays through in one pass.
Twelve — nine in the order, two starters and a reliever. More names than any other board here, which is why the bottom of the lineup decides more runs than the top. Seats: C · 1B · 2B · 3B · SS · LF · CF · RF · DH · SP1 · SP2 · RP.
A hundred and sixty-two wins and no losses. No playoffs enter it: the schedule itself is the test, six months long.
