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OP here. I appreciate your posts, and the perspectives from a successful championship coach. However the issue is DD wants to play with her friends/be on that team, so me coaching a team won't satisfied that. But again I respect the league's rules on roster size, it's just that I still can't fully grasp the difference of 9 vs 10 players on a rec team. DD plays rec soccer since 1st grade and it's never been an issue with roster sizes so this is all new to us.[/quote]

There are 5 spots on a basketball court, for four quarters.  That is 20 total spots that have to be distributed to the team.  With 10 man roster, each player gets exactly 2 spots, and there is no flexibility for the coach to give extra playing time to the best players.  With 9 man roster, that leaves two quarters that can be given to better players, or perhaps split this between 4 players.  With 8 man roster you have 4 kids playing 3 quarters and 4 playing two quarters.

Roster size does matter in soccer as well.  I was upset when I got a 12 man roster in 7v7, which again means no flexibility to have better players playing 3 quarters(minimum 2 quarters in the field for all players including goalies.)  This is less of an issue in higher grades once subs are allowed, though technically this league's 9v9 rules cannot be followed if they give out a max 16 roster.[/quote]

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