{"id":29509,"date":"2016-05-29T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29509"},"modified":"2016-05-29T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T18:11:09","slug":"european-softball-federation-introduce-mens-and-womens-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29509","title":{"rendered":"European Softball Federation introduce men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1037860\/european-softball-federation-introduce-mens-and-womens-rankings\" target=\"_blank\">From Inside the Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The European Softball Federation has introduced rankings \u00a9ESF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Softball Federation (ESF) has opted to introduce men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The standings will be for the men&#8217;s slowpitch game as well as men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s fastpitch.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the senior national team will be considered, but youth team attendance at European Championships will also be factored in.<\/p>\n<p>That means the system will produce rankings which reflect competition achievement and softball development, it is hoped.<\/p>\n<p>The Czechs top the pile in the men&#8217;s fastpitch, ahead of Denmark and The Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Inside the Games The European Softball Federation has introduced rankings \u00a9ESF The European Softball Federation (ESF) has opted to introduce men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s rankings. The standings will be for the men&#8217;s slowpitch game as well as men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s fastpitch. Results of the senior national team will be considered, but youth team attendance at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,21],"tags":[514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-29509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-europe","7":"category-teams","8":"tag-esfrankings","9":"tag-europeanfastball","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29510,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509\/revisions\/29510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}