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So they look at the other team to see what they have.

So team A is seeding against team B.

Team A has a swimmer fast in Free, back and Breast but can only swim two events (NVSL).

Team B has a swimmer that can beat Team A's swimmer in Free.  So Team A would not swim their fast swimmer in that event because they would be giving up points.  They would swim them in Back and Breast.

It basically starts like this for each stroke.  You work to to see what your lane one and lane two swimmers can do and sometimes you even have a great lane three swimmer.  Sometimes you know that your lane three swimmer will not pick up points so you don't care who is in that slot and will just pick the next person down.

Team A's goal is to pick up points.  They don't really care about the individual swimmers.  Depending on where they put the top swimmers impacts those cusp swimmers.  This weekend there are a lot of conflicts, so historically teams move further down the ladder in who swims.

This can make swimmers swimming this weekend think that they are A meet swimmers when they are not.[/quote]

This is super helpful - thank you!! This is probably a dumb question but how do the coaches know the other team's swimmers times?[/quote]

You can pull up the team's meets on the NVSL website.  Coaches will often try to calculate improvements and even look at a swimmer's winter swim times (Club).  The first few meets are tough, you are looking at last year's meets.

Granted there are some teams that do not do any of this and just seed based on time, with no thought of the other team.  Some teams will take into account a swimmer's preferred strokes. If a team can put in one or two swimmers that are equal, they might choose the harder working swimmer or the one whose dad/mom is an official (because they need the people to work the meet).  Every team has its own personalities.

In the end this is Rec swimming and has a lot of variables (think little league) and should be about as serious.[/quote]

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