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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:38 - this is why they have different divisions.  In Division 1, most/all of the teams have at least 1-2 select players.  If you're getting blown out at every game, you're in the wrong division.  If you're getting blown out in the lowest division, you might need to look at why - are the players not showing up to practice or games?  Is the coach not following the drills they provide?

Teams move within divisions between seasons.  Teams that go 8-0 or 7-1 in division 2 move to division 1 and teams that lost most division 1 games move to division 2.  none of our games were blowouts last year - all the wins were close, which tells me the seeding is pretty good.

I get it - teams should be fair.  [b]But when it comes down to telling one girl on a team of 11 that she has to leave, the whole thing sucks.  And telling her that not only does she have to leave, but she is the only one who has to leave, and she has to go to a team where she doesn't know the other 10 girls - that's tough.  The point of rec is having fun with your friends.  
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We mainly stayed on our rec team last year when my daughter was also doing travel because she was on a travel team with mostly older girls (she has a late birthday) where she didn't know anyone.  Most games that season were total blowout losses, she didn't get much playing time and she would have been really bummed if she hadn't had her rec team to play with also.  She likes the girls and the coach and we like the parents, and it's nice to have the continuity.

I like the 2 of 3 playing solution, but what do we do if we're low on numbers for a game?  If we only have 7 girls available for a 7x7 format, which has happened, are we supposed to forfeit?  (or 6? which has also happened.)[/quote]

This happened to my son (rec baseball) except he was one of the lower kids on the team. Roughly the same age (4th).

It really, really sucked to be the only kid on a different team. When he found out he cried and his biggest question was why don't my coaches want me on my team anymore. It was so hard and he did not understand as he wanted to be on that team for the camraderie.

What would have made it better would have been if they had split the team in half and added new kids, to make 2 teams, each containing roughly half the kids from the old team.

Then it would be easy to explain that the team split because the rules want to make things more fair and fun for all the kids, vs the coaches are dumping only you because they do not want you any more.

The first way is something that can be explained in a way a 9 year old understands. The second way is hurtful and soul crushing to a kid.[/quote]

Dumping one of the lower ability kids is VERY different from asking kids who already play on a different travel team due to rules about the max number of carded players and cannot even make the practices is perfectly reasonable.[/quote]

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