Tryouts - Any reason certain players are in pennies all the time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pinnies are not random at tryouts. Most of them time they’re related to dividing up players by skill level.

Or they are current players that already committed. They want to tryout kids against current players.

[Anonymous]

I definitely would not recommend that you analyze anything. I thought my child was on the little field in one tryout and he got an A team offer. I don't know what they are looking for and I will begin to just let the process flow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I definitely would not recommend that you analyze anything. I thought my child was on the little field in one tryout and he got an A team offer. I don't know what they are looking for and I will begin to just let the process flow.

This is a good advice. You can’t know what the staff is thinking about all the kids. You may have an idea what they think about your kid and some others, but even as an existing player at our club’s ID days, my kid played the ‘top’ field day one and the ‘bottom’ day two. They had a penny one day I think and not the other.

None of it had much to do with the team to which they were invited.

Looking back, I think they moved kids they ‘knew’ where on a specific team all over to have them play against new kids and push bubble kids or whatever.

You will drive yourself crazy trying to puzzle it out.

[Anonymous]

In the tryout I observed for my kid, it seemed that all kids from another club wore a pinny. They had two colors and observing the scrimmages it looked like they had them differentiated by ability as one group seemed to move significantly slower and sloppier than the other. For what is worth my kid in the slow group pinny still somehow got invited for the next session. So it all remains a mystery.