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[quote=Anonymous]Basketball is weird because of the limited number of spots and playing time. Ideally, coaches like to have an 8 or 9 man rotation at the varsity level. Meaning, those 8 or 9 players will get the vast, vast majority of the competitive minutes in games.  If you are playing more than that you don’t really have a team and if you are playing fewer, your starters are getting gassed.  Coaches will roster around 13-15 on varsity depending on the school.

Generally speaking, you want at least half the varsity team to be seniors. The remainder will be juniors and talented freshman/sophomores *who will actually play*. No sense in putting a Fr/So on the bench at varsity. Stick them on JV where they will get minutes.

Ideally, the vast majority of your JV is made up of sophomores with a few freshmen sprinkled in. If you have a junior who is on the fence, who might develop or who you can’t play much now but you will need him as a senior on varsity, you leave him on the JV (should be a rare occurrence and rarely more than one junior).

Generally, you expect the vast majority of your freshmen team to make JV and the real harsh cut is JV to Varsity.

If you have a weird year where a particular class year is not very talented, you can end up in a scenario where you have, for example, twelve juniors and only three seniors on varsity that year. Coaches want to avoid this, but sometimes it works out that way.

Ironically, I have seen this imbalance setup one great year at the expense of two other years. Imagine a scenario where the class of 2030 has just 3 seniors on varsity, 2031 has twelve juniors on varsity.

I have seen coaches essentially write off 2030 in this scenario and get crushed by playing their juniors heavy minutes in 2030. You come back the next season in 2031 where you now have a very experienced, senior heavy team and you make a great run. But 2031 comes at the expense of the 2032 team, too, because all those seniors in 2031 eat up playing time and when 2032 are seniors they are lightly experienced at the varsity level and the team regresses.

Coaches figure this problem out early on in their careers so they try to balance winning now with giving playing time to players they project as future contributors, but sometimes the talent imbalances between class years force their hands. [/quote]

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