One day-double elimination baseball tournament. Is it possible??

I really doubt this - you would have to go with a time limit and be strict on it and not go over. Teams could not take IF / OF and have to have a place to throw off to the side and possibly have pitchers throw to get loose during other games.

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It seems the girls and their softball manage to shoehorn in about 15 or 20 games each day.


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Haha Woody... I thought exactly the same thing when I read the title of this thread - "Geesh, daughter's softball team routinely played one day 3 game guarantee tournaments!"

Nicholas - how many fields are we talking here?

Not sure how you could play a 5 team double elimination that would make sense and be fair to all 5 teams.

Even a 4 team double elimination would take 6 games. Actually 7 games if a team out of loser bracket wins first championship game.

A team losing their first game would have to play 5 games in one day to win the tournament.

Timing wise… It is very possible with two fields being used for the first 4 games. Once again this is based on 4 teams. 5 teams just doesn’t work very well at all.

Game 1 - 1vs2 at fld A
Game 2 - 3vs4 at fld B
Game 3 - Losers at fld B
Game 4 - Winners at fld A
Game 5 – Winner gm4 vs Loser gm5 at fld A
Game 6 – Winner gm5 vs Winner gm4 at fld A
Game 7 – Same teams if Winner gm4 loses gm6 at fld A

Maybe you should get another team and play a 6 team pool tournament. 3 teams in each pool. Winner of each pool plays one game for championship. 2 game guarantee. 3 games to win it. Of course it would take two fields. The whole tournament would take 4 time slots.

Pool A Played at fld A
1vs2
1vs3
2vs3
Pool B Played at fld B
4vs5
4vs6
5vs6
Championship Game
7 games total, played in 4 time slots.