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[quote=Anonymous]I coached my kid's basketball team this past season with mixed results.  It was a 7/8 year old team and I went the route of letting everybody get to experience playing every position.  They all want to play point guard, so I set up a rotation where every kid got to play half of a game at point guard.  In the end I think this was the best result.  We may have won another game or two had we not done this, but I think their was value in rotating each player through all the positions.  Thankfully the league said playing time had to be equal.  One the playing time stops having to be equal I'm done coaching.  Way too much drama for me to deal with.  I love teaching the fundamentals of the game, instilling teamwork, seeing friendships/bonds form, but want no part in the drama that comes with sports as the kids get older.

As for the OP I think at ten years old it's still development time.  Yes, winning is great and should be strived for, but I think at this age it's still about development.  Sticking the lesser skilled kid in right field every time wouldn't be my strategy.  They're all going to make mistakes.  In baseball it's hard to learn all of the positions, so maybe it would be best to have all the players platoon between two positions?[/quote]

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