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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I swear some of you just don't understand trying to win meets.

My kids was the fastest in 3 strokes this year (free, back, and breast). At the start of the season she was swimming free and breast in A meets (her two best). Then in the third meet the coach switched her to back and breast. She came in second in back, but would have easily won free. Were we mad? No, of course not. Looking at the times from our team and the other team it was obvious that the second fastest swimmer on our team in free was going to easily win and that our daughter had a chance to win back while the second fastest back swimmer on our team had no chance. Our coach was trying to win the meet.

It "cost" my kid a chance to have a perfect season and win every race in every A meet. But it was what was best for the team. It was an awesome learning opportunity for her. When we explained it to her she had no problem with it because she wanted to do what was best for the team.

I can create the lineup for our team for A meets just by looking at our ladder and looking up the other teams times in mynvls.com. Clearly I spend way too much time on this, but I'm usually pretty close each week to what our coach picks. The places where I get it wrong are almost always minor judgment calls that could go either way.

The best part about this is there is no drama because the meet lineups follow two rules:
1. Do what is best for the team
2. Fastest swimmer swims
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Actually, most of us DO understand.  Some of us have seen this done the wrong way and that’s what the drama is about.  Duh.[/quote]

You have seen the coach try to win the meet the wrong way?[/quote]

Are you dense? I’ve seen a coach seed a meet based on nothing but wishes, instead of actual times.  And the team lost. Does that answer your question?[/quote]

You just said some of us have seen THIS (meaning PP’s explanation) done the wrong way. If a coach is seeding based upon wishes, he is not seeding to win.

If you’re saying the coach was seeding based upon wishes, he was not doing what PP described the “wrong way.”  He was doing something else entirely.

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Ok. Fine. My “this” was referring to seeding strategy.   That’s what people are complaining about. Coaches not going by the times, for reasons that are unclear or outright problematic.[/quote]

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