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Can anyone tell me how the all league teams are picked?
All too often in the same manner that political offices are won.Originally Posted by Iluvthegame44
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts." -- Atributed to John Wooden by Mike Candrea
I would assume they are all done similarly. At the end of the regular season, Head Coaches from all teams in the league meet and decide between them.
:lol: too true.
As for the OP there are many methods used to pick select or all league teams.
For our league there is a tryout where players are rated by coaches, commisioners and former travel coaches who are not associated with the age division being rated so in threory it is a "fair" tryout. But there are always a few head scrathers as it seems some players get in based on politics more ability.
Voting blocs.
Sorry to say Greenmonsters is correct, at least in this area, when I have attended. Plus those schools that cheat and bloat high school stats, show up here. Example local kid with 50 stolen bases, with 118 PA. Kids with BA over 700. You see things that you just shake your head and know they are padding the stats.
Real simple in my area. You get heavily involved with the rec organization, volunteer on the board. Be part of the PTO, and other civic duties. Coach various sports, no matter how good you are. Donate very generously to all the above to make sure you have voice in all decisions made. Then march your average DD out and have her get picked for the team. This is how half of our teams are selected.
Then they fill in the gaps with the talented girls, to build a full team.
I think in my hometown they go by newspaper stats, which are not remotely accurate because some coaches are too lazy to report, some teams have total idiots keeping the stats, and teams that get to beat up on weaker teams based on location have bloated stats even though they may be technically accurate.
Lots of cynicism here, no surprise. Guess what, All-Star/Select teams are by definition daddy ball teams. Without those daddy coaches there would be no All-Star teams or Rec leagues (and btw no one to stock your beloved travel teams with players). So if a coach chooses a couple of borderline kids because he or another coach donates hundreds of hours a year of their time so that other people can just drop off their kids at the curb and have them play softball, I say "more power to them". Don't like it, get off the couch and do something in the community rather than sitting around complaining that life isn't fair.
LOL, not that many of the same principles don't come into play, but my initial response to the original post was related to the High School year end awarding of All- Conference/League/State/Mothership/Universe honors rather than the actual recruit/tryout/cut process involved with putting together a team that will actually play games or practice together! Maybe I mis-read the original post?!
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts." -- Atributed to John Wooden by Mike Candrea
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