Does your NVSL team post times

[Anonymous]

1. Does your team post the ladder?
2. How much of the ladder do they post?
3. How big is your team?
4. High, mid, or low division?
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not?

[Anonymous]

Ours doesn’t but it’s almost the end of the summer. Ask the coach how close he is and the difference bw him and a kid who makes it and then pay for some extra lessons…if it’s that big of a deal to you.

[Anonymous]

Yes, ours updates the ladder after every A and B meet. Top ten scores for each category. The slower kids only have their times posted after time trials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1. Does your team post the ladder? No
2. How much of the ladder do they post?
3. How big is your team? 150-200ish
4. High, mid, or low division? High, if you mean top of the league as opposed to high division number
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not? Don’t know. The coaches guard it jealously. Only a few team officials/volunteers ever see it, on a need to know basis.

[Anonymous]

1. Does your team post the ladder? NO
2. How much of the ladder do they post?
3. How big is your team? 180ish
4. High, mid, or low division? mid-range
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not?

It led to a pretty awful mean culture and kids being picked on

[Anonymous]

1. Does your team post the ladder? Online only. It used to be posted at the pool where everyone could see.
2. How much of the ladder do they post? [/b]Top 6 times only[/b]
3. How big is your team? [/b]About 200 swimmers[/b]
4. High, mid, or low division? Mid
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not? [/b]Beyond top 6, likelihood of someone making an A meet or similar is low so where exactly someone falls is irrelevant. History of kids making fun of others who were further down on the ladder, so eliminates some pain or embarrassment around a fun summer activity.[/b]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1. Does your team post the ladder? NO
2. How much of the ladder do they post?
3. How big is your team? 120
4. High, mid, or low division? Mid
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not?

Don't want the kid at the bottom of the ladder to realize they are at the bottom of the ladder. Bad for self-esteem.

I've posted about this before. I HATE that our team doesn't publish a ladder. And I have both - a top of the ladder kid and a bottom of the ladder kid. Our team does post B meet times (not online but a paper posting at the pool.) So if I wanted, I could manually create my own ladder for my kids' age groups.

[Anonymous]

1. Yes - the entire ladder is sent out every Tuesday
2) all of it
3) 225 - NVSL
4) high
5) Have never once thought about the rationale. It has always been done. No one cares at all. Sometimes random people will mention your kid is good if they are at the top. Only discussion I have heard. Maybe once a summer my kids ask to see it - and they are at the top. So not a big deal and don't know why people are making it into one to publish it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Yes - the entire ladder is sent out every Tuesday
2) all of it
3) 225 - NVSL
4) high
5) Have never once thought about the rationale. It has always been done. No one cares at all. Sometimes random people will mention your kid is good if they are at the top. Only discussion I have heard. Maybe once a summer my kids ask to see it - and they are at the top. So not a big deal and don't know why people are making it into one to publish it.

Not a big deal not to publish it either.

[Anonymous]

Our team publishes the top 10 on the ladder and my kids are excited if they get on the ladder. Way more than ten kids per age group obvously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our team publishes the top 10 on the ladder and my kids are excited if they get on the ladder. Way more than ten kids per age group obvously.

I think this is a fair way to do it. It doesn’t draw attention to the slowest swimmers and their times, and lets the kids who are a little more competitive and trying to improve see the progress they have made and what their goal times should be if they are trying to break into A meets.

[Anonymous]

we don't post times. I noticed that it appeared the top person and their time in each stroke/age was posted- but not the ladder. Our team is about 150? kids maybe? I can figure out the ladder by paying attention to mynvsl however- it doesn't give me a few kids times but I have a pretty good sense of what time my kids need to swim in the a meet. I feel like the mynvsl is fine for getting times. The thing is there are age groups we are super deep on- so posting the top 6 kids times whatever would be fine- then there are age groups where we only have 9 or so kids in the group and so likely embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

1. Does your team post the ladder? Yes
2. How much of the ladder do they post? The whole thing
3. How big is your team? 250ish
4. High, mid, or low division? High
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not? Transparency, A meets, divisionals, and relays are determined solely by ladder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Does your team post the ladder? Online only. It used to be posted at the pool where everyone could see.
2. How much of the ladder do they post? [/b]Top 6 times only[/b]
3. How big is your team? [/b]About 200 swimmers[/b]
4. High, mid, or low division? Mid
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not? [/b]Beyond top 6, likelihood of someone making an A meet or similar is low so where exactly someone falls is irrelevant. History of kids making fun of others who were further down on the ladder, so eliminates some pain or embarrassment around a fun summer activity.[/b]

That’s extremely well thought out. Beyond the top 6 there is no chance you swim A meets, but everyone has an idea of the times they would need to move onto the ladder. Really great plan. I wish we went to that pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Does your team post the ladder? Yes
2. How much of the ladder do they post? The whole thing
3. How big is your team? 250ish
4. High, mid, or low division? High
5. Rationale behind the choice to post or not? Transparency, A meets, divisionals, and relays are determined solely by ladder

+ 1 Same here on all accounts, but glad they post for #5