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The 2026 Benchwarmer Bash

Benchwarmer Baseball holds a final playoff tournament each fall, taking all the league champions and - for now - some wildcard teams and crowning a single champ for all of Benchwarmer Baseball.

The format - as BWB continues to grow - will be in flux from season to season. Eventually, leagues will be part of "associations" and "federations" and there will be champs at each level that advance to the final bash.

In 2009 we made the move to Federations, and in 2019, we moved to an Association level. Currently, there are 8 complete Federations in BWB - each Federation contains 4 Associations, and each Association has 2 leagues. Beginning in 2020, BWB expanded into additional Federations. Until those fill up, leagues may be placed randomly in the Bash amid other groupings. The league champion teams will make the Association round along with wild cards to fill out a field of 4 teams. Selection of wild cards will be based on the Power Index compared within that Association.

The existence and number of wild cards will continue to fluctuate annually as the number of leagues change.

Until the Koufax Federation gets enough teams to fill out the bracket for Association/Federation play in the Benchwarmer Bash, those leagues will be placed randomly in other Federations/Associations. That placement will be at random and will change each year.

For the purposes of the 2026 Benchwarmer Bash, these leagues will be put into other associations:

Great Lakes League - Jimmie Foxx Federation, Frankie Frisch Association
Game Night League - Lou Gehrig Federation, Hank Greenberg Association
Big Red Machine League - Johnny Bench Federation, Lou Brock Association
British Invasion League - Hank Aaron Federation, Grover Alexander Association

4 Association champs move on within each Federation. Then, each Federation crowns a champ from those 4 teams...then the 8 remaining Federation champions will play in a final bracket - seeded by Power Index (ranked over all BWB).

Confused? You'll see how it plays out.

PRIZE - The winner of the Benchwarmer Bash will earn two free seasons for their winning team, in addition to the free season they may have won if they were a league champion. The Bash runner up will earn one free season.

Last year's Bash

Benchwarmer Bash - Quarterfinals (coming soon}

2026 Benchwarmer Bash Bracket (coming soon)

Semifinals: Jump to Games

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Benchwarmer Bash Finals Jump to Games

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2026 Benchwarmer Bash Champion

2026 Federation Champions

Hank Aaron Federation:
Johnny Bench Federation:
Ty Cobb Federation:
Joe DiMaggio Federation:
Dennis Eckersley Federation:
Jimmie Foxx Federation:
Lou Gehrig Federation:
Rogers Hornsby Federation:

Past BW Bash Champions

2025: Lamoureux (Original Six) Sherman Wan
2024: NYC2ATL (Chevy Chase) Ricardo Alexander
2023: Kingston (Marxball) Ricardo Alexander
2022: Kingston (That's the Fact Jack) Ricardo Alexander
2021: Kingston (Marxball) Ricardo Alexander
2020: Stargell's Spectacular (Steel City) Jason Kiernan
2019: The (Beer) owned then by Jesse Roche
2018: Fiorello's (Marxball) Jason Kiernan
2017: The (Beer) owned then by Jesse Roche
2016: Crumpton (now Rich, Moneyball) owned then by Jesse Roche
2015: Towanda (Commissioners) owned then by Jay Snyder
2014: Crestone (Moneyball) owned then by Kevin Connors
2013: Backwoods (now Clearwater, Phightin' Phils) owned then by Kevin Connors
2012: Crumpton (now St. Paul, Winners Circle) owned then by Jesse Roche
2011: Crumpton (now Atlanta, Murderers' Row) owned then by Jesse Roche
2010: Save the Dome (now Fantasy, Experts) owned then by Jacob Vass
2009: Aksarben (K Street) Don Kruse
2008: Trinidad (Longball) Leif Jonson
2007: Gashouse (Reality Bites) Rob Behymer
2006: NJ (now Cleveland, Shadowball) owned then by Tom Twomey
2005: Carlisle (now Stu Sutcliffe, Beatleball) owned then by Mark Groninger
2004: Gorilla (now Abbey Road, Beatleball) owned then by David Regan/Dana Moreau