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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our Rec League requires each kid play 50% of the game.  If you can play the strong players more, while still giving everyone else 50%, go for it.

It's Rec, how are other players going to develop if they aren't given the playing time?

And, it's Rec, it's supposed to be fun for everyone - don't be that jerk coach who only cares about winning and not player development, teamwork, fun, etc[/quote]

OP. Each child on the team is getting way more than 50%. I've been giving the best players about 90% playing time, and the weaker players around 70%.

In practice, the weaker players get most of my attention. [/quote]

This is perfectly fine.
I've been the weaker player, and have a kid who is the weaker player.  It's completely demoralizing when a coach plays a kid for 25% of the game or something like that.  But as long as all the kids are playing at least half the game, but 10/11 years old - they also want to win!  And they don't want to be the one consistently responsible for not winning.
Playing the weaker kids 60-70% and having them experience the job of being on a winning team is way more likely to get them to come back next year than playing everyone exactly evenly and loosing every game.[/quote]

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