{"id":1048,"date":"2017-03-03T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/major-leagues.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2018-04-22T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:25:57","slug":"the-major-sports-league-season-standings-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/archives\/1048","title":{"rendered":"The Major Sports League Season Standings begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major Sports Leagues (major-leagues.com) has acquired from various sources the standings and statistics of the Big Four Sports beginning from 1857.<\/p>\n<p>We are tracking the beginnings of the four Big Four Sports and their associated Major Sports Leagues. Below we indicate the the Big Four Sports, its associated initial league, and the years the sport spans:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 98px;\" width=\"801\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\"><strong>Sport<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"64\"><strong>Initial Circuit<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"64\"><strong>Year Span<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Baseball<\/td>\n<td>NABBP<br \/>\nNational Association of Base Ball Players<\/td>\n<td>1857 to now<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hockey<\/td>\n<td>AHAC<br \/>\nAmatuer Hockey Association of Canada<\/td>\n<td>1887 to now<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Football<\/td>\n<td>WPPFC<br \/>\nWestern Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit<\/td>\n<td>1890 to now<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Basketball<\/td>\n<td>NBL<br \/>\nNational Basketball League<\/td>\n<td>1898 to now<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>To begin we will post season standings from 2015 and work backwards, while updating the present when a new season of play has been completed. We will be posting each Major League&#8217;s season in order of the championship played within the calendar year. For 2015 and the recent history of standings, we will start each year with the NFL (championship in February), followed by the NHL and NBA (championships in June), and then the MLB (championships in October).<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as we add seasonal standings for each of the four major leagues, then track how the leagues and cities fare with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Sports Leagues (major-leagues.com) has acquired from various sources the standings and statistics of the Big Four Sports beginning from 1857. We are tracking the beginnings of the four Big Four Sports and their associated Major Sports Leagues. Below we indicate the the Big Four Sports, its associated initial league, and the years the sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-definition","tag-explanation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/major-leagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}