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[quote=Anonymous]I suppose there's a sweet-spot in between playing to your team's (and your individual players') strengths to win, and playing to develop your players.

Over the years, my children have been on some teams that rotated players throughout the entire season, and sometimes went a whole season without winning a single game; that's demoralizing for kids.  A little more focus on developing players into their natural best-fit position would have been a good idea, as would keeping in certain players who seem to be keystones for more playing time than others.

On the other hand, if one of my kids were on a team where they were getting ZERO minutes of playing time, I think that's a problem. All of these pay-to-play teams have tryouts, and so clearly there should be a minimum level of skill possessed by every player on the team -- at least some playing time each game is, in my mind, mandatory for each player.   I can't imagine forking over thousands of dollars and traveling hither and yon just to watch your kid ride the bench.  I played multiple sports in high school, some where I started, others where I, well, mostly rode the bench or got minimal playing time.  But those were free, and the schools bused us to games, and my parents didn't have to spend time/money for us bench-warmers.

In my experience with Vienna Youth Soccer, I've never seen a kid play ZERO minutes in any game.[/quote]

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