Baseball Bundesliga 2000

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The Baseball Bundesliga 2000 was the 17th season of the Baseball Bundesliga . At the end of the season, the Lokstedt Stealers were able to win their first and so far only championship title and thus interrupt the supremacy of Paderborn Untouchables in the years 1999 to 2005 with 6 championship titles in 7 years.

The Hamburg team prevailed in a pure "North Final" against the 1998 champions , the Cologne Dodgers , in 2 games.


Regular season

In the two seasons North and South, the eight teams played four games against each other in the regular season. The top four and the last four teams then played against each other twice, so that each team played 34 regular games.

The two best-placed teams of each season then qualified for the play-offs, in which the best-of-three mode was played.

1. Bundesliga North

The Elmshorn Alligators and the Holzwickede Joboxers rose to the Bundesliga for the first time. While the former were able to assert themselves with 4th place in the Bundesliga right away, the Joboxers were relegated directly from bottom of the table, both in 1993 and in 2005 .

The two newcomers replaced Bremen Dockers and Ratingen Goose Necks , who were relegated penultimate and bottom of the table in the previous season .

The reigning champion Paderborn Untouchables missed the play-offs, for which the Cologne Dodgers were also able to qualify as season winners, despite a tie with the later champion Lokstedt. The Wolfsburg Yahoos and the Holzwickede Joboxers landed behind at the bottom of the table .

team G V Pct. GB
1. Cologne Dodgers 27 7th .794 0
2. Lokstedt stealers 23 11 .676 4th
3. Paderborn Untouchables 23 11 .676 4th
4th Bonn Capitals 19th 15th .559 8th
5. Elmshorn Alligators 16 18th .471 11
6th Strausberg Sun Warriors 13 21st .382 14th
7th Wolfsburg Yahoo! 8th 26th .235 19th
8th. Holzwickede Joboxers 7th 27 .206 20th

1st Bundesliga South

Heidenheim Heideköpfe was the only team to rise to the baseball Bundesliga South. They replaced Romans' Ladenburg and were able to reach 4th place straight away.

The first three teams came in in the same order as in the previous year, so that again the Mainz Athletics - with the best statistics of all teams in the 2000 season with only 6 defeats in the regular season - and the Mannheim Tornados qualified for the play-offs .

The Grünwald Jesters and the Friedberg Braves had to leave the Bundesliga, the latter only able to book one win of the season.

team G V Pct. GB
1. Mainz Athletics 28 6th 0.824 0
2. Mannheim tornadoes 26th 8th 0.764 2
3. Regensburg legionaries 22nd 12 0.647 6th
4th Tubingen Hawks 18th 16 0.529 10
5. Heidenheim Heath Heads 16 18th .471 12
6th Baldham Boars 13 21st .382 15th
7th Grünwald Jesters 12 22nd .353 16
8th. Friedberg Braves 1 33 .029 27

Play-offs

Semifinals   final
S1  Mainz Athletics 3 0      
N2  Lokstedt stealers 4th 1   N2  Lokstedt stealers 7th 5
S2  Mannheim tornadoes 7th 6th 1   N1  Cologne Dodgers 5 1
N1  Cologne Dodgers 13 1 11