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[quote=Anonymous]Different format for team creation because Pony League rules.  But, may be of some help.

1.  Coaches kids obviously end up on their team.  The league folks need to assess the kids, and in some cases that can be debatable so the league will typically have someone or ones at the mini-tryout check out those kids.  That is not to say that coaches are sandbagging.  If a league divides based on 2 year ages or 2 grades (pretty typical) you would typically expect that the older kids will be the pitchers.  That may or may not be a coach kid.

2.  The team managers will try and put an equal number of "pitchers" on each team.  Depending on if there are any issues with assessment, there may be some effort to review past year's participation.

3.  The team managers will try and grade out every player.  We used 1-5 and graded hitting/fielding/throwing/pitching.  As you can imagine -- it was really just the kids on either end that generated any sort of focus.  The managers and draft supervisor(s) (helper to judge who can pitch/hit well) would then attempt to group sort every kid.  It really is not that hard.

4.  After dividing up the pitching and making sure kids are hopefully properly assessed, then you start dividing up the rest of the kids.  Non-pitching coach kids will obviously get placed with their parents first when you get to that basic level of player.  We divided up by half levels.  So, for example, a coach kid who was group judged to be a 3.3 level kid would get assigned/picked "first" when the parents team's turn came for that level of player.  Usually 3.0-3.5 kids.   Often, but not always, coach kids were good players.  It was certainly common for two parents of younger age kids to coach together, so those kids often were not rated highly when compared to the next year older kids.  No big deal as long as everyone basically agreed and where there was any potential issue the "expert(s)" would decide.

By going with the group think division the idea was to avoid claims of sandbagging, and it still allowed for coaches to pick particularly good friends when their level was reached.  A coach could say -- Billy M is my kid's best friend.  Billy M is a kid with a 2.8 rating.  When we get to the 2.5-3.0 kids Billy M could be reserved and "picked" first at that level.  Other than those situations, kids were basically assigned so teams were as equal as we could make them.

Attempts to try and load a team up with friends were also discouraged.  It is fine to get a friend or two on a team, but the point is to make the teams roughly competitive so everyone has a good time.  And, meeting some new kids and making some new friend is okay.  It will not work out perfectly of course.  And, that is fine.  Kids will improve at different rates.  In my limited experience, the teams that do the best typically are those where the younger age kids improve and really contribute at the plate and in the field.  Practice can make a big difference here.

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