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1. How do the TD coaches allocate players over multiple travel teams of same age?
Are players tiered by ability and all placed on Team A then team B then C or some other way?
Yes, but each age-group coach is looking for different things. Some might weigh technical ability more than raw athleticism and other coaches the other way around. It matters less for U9 but they may already be looking at different players for specific positions.

2. Are players truly rotated through positions equitably?  Irrespective of physical ability i.e. slow players are placed on wings.
At U9 coaches should be regularly rotating players but IME it's really coach dependent. Why would slow players be on the wings? Do you mean wing back? At this age many coaches play a format where the kids that play in the wings are midfielders and they are usually the fastest because they have to cover up and down the field. There usually aren't enough players to have defensive players in the wings at this point in developmental soccer and the fields are quite small. On DS's U9 team they did rotate kids through 2-3 different positions in the fall. In the spring things are getting more fixed. FWIW the slowest kid on DS's team is a striker. He has good skills and scores a lot, but when he was in defense or mid he could not catch up to the opposing team's players.

3. Are best coaches assigned by tiering as well?
Yes, usually.
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