Oh my, I guess I was one of those parents once when DD was 7 but my God Helicopter parents have gotten more flighty. Everyone want to be on this team because the coaches DD is popular ( but he can't coach and she can't play). One mom was signing up a young first year 7yo but thought we should try her out for 10u because she's going to be great once WE teach her the game. Unbelievable.
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Given some of the latest TB threads, its no better. Drama, drama, drama.
- Jun 24, 2013
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My DD wants to play with player A, for carpool reasons, Player A wants to play with player B, player B does not want to play for coach 1 who wants player A, etc.
A made up story, the real ones are better.
A made up story, the real ones are better.
- Oct 24, 2012
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That's why completely random tryouts are necessary. Avoid any type of "their team did this..."
What is a random tryout?
I assume he means all girls got to some sort of evaluation and coaches draft a team based on what they see.
I just got my rec team roster (9-10) the other day. The commission tries to split the talent so all teams have at least "2 pitchers" and a roughly equal number of "good", "average" and "poor" players. Pitchers are based on what girls did in the league the year before and g/a/p ratings are from either the prior year evaluations or the 1 day skills evaluation for new players to the league. It's not perfect but usually the teams are pretty fairly balanced.
- Oct 24, 2012
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Yeah, I guess calling it a random tryout is a dumb way out saying it. Girls tryout, coaches pick who they want.
If you have a girl who has pitched in a game before, you draft after the teams that do not have a pitcher. When you're like our first year 10u team, we had a girl taking lessons from the end of 8U and still got to draft a pitcher early because she had never pitched before. We ended up with two effective pitchers while others didnt pan out so well. But when there are only 2-4 good pitchers, I'm not sure you'll end up with any other result.
This is the reason we left the rec league and started a C level team. Not because we're great, but because we're not getting anywhere playing against wild pitchers.
If you have a girl who has pitched in a game before, you draft after the teams that do not have a pitcher. When you're like our first year 10u team, we had a girl taking lessons from the end of 8U and still got to draft a pitcher early because she had never pitched before. We ended up with two effective pitchers while others didnt pan out so well. But when there are only 2-4 good pitchers, I'm not sure you'll end up with any other result.
This is the reason we left the rec league and started a C level team. Not because we're great, but because we're not getting anywhere playing against wild pitchers.
Yeah rec is rec for a reason but I'm not sure you'll see a whole lot better with a C-level team. I could be wrong but my experience with seeing C-teams is that they are rec teams that don't play in an area large enough to support a full rec program so they have to go to tournaments.
We are lucky enough to have a rec program that supports 10 teams this year at the 10U division.
We are lucky enough to have a rec program that supports 10 teams this year at the 10U division.
My favorite is when coach A says kid B should play on his team, because he "knows" they'll refuse to play for coach C if he drafts her and she'll quit softball if that happens.
Then kid B requests coach C
Then kid B requests coach C
- Oct 10, 2013
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Our Rec league president would divide the teams up "equally" some how he always ended up with former travel players.
