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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think this is the case, but do any leagues actively try to seed teams into divisions at the beginning of the year through a period of inter-squad scrimmages?  It seems like there is enough of a difference in team performance year to year to keep the pro/rel mechanism from actually working.  I think this is at least part of the problem. [/quote]

While the stated sample size in the previous U15 examples is small the reality is pro/rel versus a closed league alone will not fix blowouts.

Hell, right now Fulham is sitting in last place in the Premier League with a GA Avg/game of 2.53. On a per game basis they are only doing better than 9 of the 12 U15 teams sampled in this thread. The only reason pro leagues even have Pro/Rel is to provide incentive to keep teams playing competitively through as close to the completion of the season as possible. When a championship is decided on league points and not a playoff system it is crucial that all teams remain as competitive as possible for as long into the season as possible in order to ensure that a championship or a Champions League birth is not unfairly earned because a team is tanking late in the season.

There are no such motivations for youth soccer for Pro/Rel to mean a thing. There is no incentive to tank, or to fight either. It is just kids playing soccer and no matter how it is rigged there will always be a team in last place and they will likely have lost by a lot over the course of the season. [/quote]

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