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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents complaining that their kid didn’t swim “X” stroke, parents telling the coach that their kid was VERY DISAPPOINTED that they didn’t make it to divisionals.

Otherwise it was a fun season. [/quote]

Ugh my kid has been disappointed at not making it to divisionals and I’ve definitely mentioned that to others in conversation. It doesn’t mean I thought they should have been picked at all. The coach makes the right decisions and I’d never question them (and it’s been very clear cut) but it’s ok for kids to be disappointed![/quote]

Someone told me a parent was so disappointed, they sent a letter to the board for further investigation into how the lineup was chosen.  It's ok for a kid to be disappointed.  This is going to be the first of many disappointments in life.  Move on.  The parent needs to get a life!  [/quote]

DP.  How do lineups get “chosen”? At our pool the top swimmers get to pick their strokes.  If you have one of the top two times you are guaranteed your choice.  The times can be from an A or B meet.  If you’re lower down on the list you may not make it based on which strokes the top swimmers pick, but there’s not really any way to game this?  Weird.[/quote]

At our MCSL team for "A" meets, the coaches pick the lineups.  It is always the top swimmers in those events, except for when you have swimmers are that have top 3 times in 4 events (MCSL has a 3 event max).  Then it is a matter of trying to figure out how best to maximize points.  For example in fly if the times for your 3 top swimmers are 27,28,29, and the other team has 24,23,24, then it's probably not worth burning that 27 swimmer in fly if they are better at their other events vs the other team.  This only becomes a problem when you have a couple of exceptional swimmers in an age group and there's not a deep bench behind them.  And yes, this can "hurt" that 27 fly swimmer IF they're on an improvement track and want to make individual all stars because there's only 6 meets possible (5A + divisionals) and you just "burned" one of them.[/quote]
This is another area where I find MCSL to be so much more transparent than NVSL. Because an MCSL swimmer can swim 3/4 strokes plus the IM at A meets it is a lot harder to “game” someone out of points to help boost a coach’s favorite teammate.[/quote]

Sounds like a lot more fun for the swimmers too, more opprtunities to compete and improve.  Oh well. NVSL is going to stay in the dark ages.[/quote]

Sounds like fewer kids swimming A meets and more kids getting discouraged and quitting [/quote]

More opportunities for NVSL swimmers to get A meets/divisional slots than MCSL swimmers. [/quote]

DP.  How do you figure? If there is IM, that’s a whole extra event to fill. Kids can swim up to three events, and there are five events. Sounds fun to me.  I think they have more relays too.[/quote]

Nvsl Divisionals have 5 events and each team can have 2 swimmers in each event. So ten slots. Each swimmer can only swim twice…so you need at least five kids from each gender and age group at Divisionals.

Nvsl has a whole separate meet for relays called divisional relay carnival. [/quote]

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