# Monthly Seasons

A New Monthly Format for Moonshot Baseball Simulated Games

### DIVISION SNAPSHOT <a href="#ac26" id="ac26"></a>

On the 1st day of each month (\~5AM EST) a snapshot will be taken on the [Overall Moonshot Leaderboard](https://www.moonshotbaseball.io/game/leaderboard/alltime) to determine each user’s division

This overall leaderboard is sorted by Overall ELO, this ELO Rating is affected when a user plays a ranked match against ***any other user***

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*u4zQlEdSyViAoa6zf-joNw.png" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

### DIVISIONAL PLAY <a href="#id-1e50" id="id-1e50"></a>

Each Division is comprised of 20 Teams. The [divisional standings](https://www.moonshotbaseball.io/current_moonshot_standings/) for the month are sorted by Monthly ELO, this ELO Rating is affected when a user plays a ranked match against ***any divisional opponent*** during that month

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/588/1*aJF2uTS7qPXZM9LOMwy5rg.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>Divisional Standings</p></figcaption></figure>

### FINAL BRACKETS <a href="#id-4294" id="id-4294"></a>

At the end of each month, the top 12 teams in each division will go on to play in their division’s final bracket. These bracket games will be played at the beginning of the following month.

* Single Elimination; Best of 1 for each round
* Top 4 Seeds have a 1st round bye

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*ZIRp6fIDbbq3990XzXcO6w.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>Bracket format for each Division</p></figcaption></figure>

### LEAGUE PRIZES <a href="#f219" id="f219"></a>

Prizes will be announced for each Division at the start of each month in the ┋🏟┋league-prizes channel of our [discord](http://discord.gg/xJjQ4F4cJZ)

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1010/0*mm92uHqGUl9W2lji.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>February 2022 League Prizes</p></figcaption></figure>

### HOW TO GET IN <a href="#id-9571" id="id-9571"></a>

To get in the next month's season you simply need to create a team on our [website](https://www.moonshotbaseball.io/).&#x20;

Once you have a team saved, you simply need to post a message in [our discord](http://discord.gg/xJjQ4F4cJZ) in the #✅verify-team channel to get your team verified. Once you are verified, you just need to play at least 5 ranked matches on our website in a given month to be entered into the next Moonshot Season
