What's up with all the organizations? What are the best? Do they serve different roles? Why would I join one over another? I am definitely from the baseball world, trying to learn what the differences are.
What's up with all the organizations? What are the best? Do they serve different roles? Why would I join one over another? I am definitely from the baseball world, trying to learn what the differences are.
What's up with all the organizations? What are the best? Do they serve different roles? Why would I join one over another? I am definitely from the baseball world, trying to learn what the differences are.
Remember when all the boxing associations appeared? Same thing.
I posted this a while back, but PONY went to EP this year as well, but does not use DP/FLEX, whereas in USSSA you can use BOTH EPs and the DP/Flex. ASA is strictly DP/Flex. Don't know about NSA.
The main difference I've seen in eastern PA between the associations is that PONY is very much a regional organization that does not have a "national" reach, but attracts the better teams in the local/regional tournaments, especially at 14U and younger. USSSA seems to be making a lot of progress, but what I've seen here is that the majority of teams, even those from "A" organizations, register to play as a "B" team, in large part because there are just more B tournaments than A or Open tournaments in our area. The NSA organization is terrible in our part of the state, so there is little support for it here.
ASA still has the most prestige, even in PA. But at the younger age groups, ASA is not that popular, in large part because they do not have as many tournaments, they do not make the registration and rostering process easy, and the National tournaments usually require a huge commitment in terms of travel and cost.