Like I said in an earlier thread, the only way a girl can get to be on your team should be if she played for you last year. Otherwise, she goes into the rating system and gets placed on the team by point rating, with no name attached. If you have 5 returners who all rate a 5, you get 5 who are 1 star (or whatever it would have to be depending on talent level to have all teams be equal on average points.
As far as the all stars....please consider this...please get away from the coaches making selections. Yes, this is the way most leagues do it. Coaches select and everyone votes. It's always jacked up. And for the love of God, move selections until the end of the season. By doing it early, all you are doing is proving people are going in with preconceived notions. This would take moving the all star season after the regular season, but that's the way I have always seen it done. Anyway, get a couple middle school athletic directors who are local and pay them a nominal fee to watch two games of each team in each age group and have them select the girls. You will get a far more unbiased selection, stronger teams, and no one has the headache of having to explain why all the coaches' daughters get picked (I know you didn't last year with your DD, but that is the exception). Don't tell anyone who is doing the picking. Just say it is an outside evaluator that is doing it. There may be 5 girls on one team...so be it...
But to echo everyone else, yes, you screwed the pooch this year.
As far as the all stars....please consider this...please get away from the coaches making selections. Yes, this is the way most leagues do it. Coaches select and everyone votes. It's always jacked up. And for the love of God, move selections until the end of the season. By doing it early, all you are doing is proving people are going in with preconceived notions. This would take moving the all star season after the regular season, but that's the way I have always seen it done. Anyway, get a couple middle school athletic directors who are local and pay them a nominal fee to watch two games of each team in each age group and have them select the girls. You will get a far more unbiased selection, stronger teams, and no one has the headache of having to explain why all the coaches' daughters get picked (I know you didn't last year with your DD, but that is the exception). Don't tell anyone who is doing the picking. Just say it is an outside evaluator that is doing it. There may be 5 girls on one team...so be it...
But to echo everyone else, yes, you screwed the pooch this year.