- Source: 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season
Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professional baseball league, and the highest level of baseball in Japan. The NPB is organized into two leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League. After the regular season, the top three teams of each league play off in the Climax Series, which determines which team from each league will play off in the Japan Series to determine the national championship team. The 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 67th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950. The Japan Series championship competition was played between the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, with the Nippon-Ham fighters winning the overall championship.
Incidents
A gambling scandal involving members of the Yomiuri Giants was reported in October. Pitchers Satoshi Fukuda, Shoki Kasahara, and Ryuya Matsumoto were found to have bet on both NPB games and Major League Baseball games, as well as high school baseball. While there was no suspicion of match fixing, Sports Gambling is illegal in Japan. The players involved were received suspensions, and members of team management resigned to take responsibility for the scandal.
Regular season standings
Climax Series
Note: In each league's stepladder playoff system (Climax Series), all games in that series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advanced if the round ended in a tie.
= First stage
=Central League
Yomiuri Giants (1) vs. Yokohama DeNA BayStars (2)
Pacific League
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2) vs. Chiba Lotte Marines (0)
= Final stage
=Central League
Hiroshima Toyo Carp (4) vs. Yokohama DeNA BayStars (1)
Pacific League
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (4) vs. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2)
Japan Series
Hiroshima Toyo Carp (2) vs. Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (4)
League leaders
= Central League
== Pacific League
=Attendances
This was a very small increase on attendance from the 2015 season.
See also
2016 KBO League season
2016 Major League Baseball season
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season
- 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball draft
- 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball season
- Nippon Professional Baseball
- 2015 Nippon Professional Baseball season
- Nippon Professional Baseball rosters
- 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment
- Comparison of Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball
- 2016 Japan Series
- Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
