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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents and coaches don't seem to grasp that rec leagues are developmental at the elementary ages. The referees aren't going to call every travel or three second violation or every foul. You would be there all day and the kids wouldn't have fun.

Screaming "Travel" about opposing players when you are on the sideline of your 3rd grader's game makes you the AH.  [/quote]

That part doesn’t bother me. It’s the ridiculous imbalance in what are supposed to be evenly distributed teams [/quote]

It is very hard to make evenly balanced teams.

Kids want to play with classmates or be on a team with a friend. 
Practice days, times and locations don’t work for everyone. 
Parents request a coach that their kid liked in the past. 
Some new players are absolutely terrible, while others are natural athletes that immediately pick it up.
Some teams work well together and gel and improve over the season, others don’t. 
Kids grow and improve from before the season until the end.

All those things can contribute to wildly different teams. [/quote]

Has to be something you can do. Been to too many games where the end score is 50 to 6.[/quote]

We'll it depends. Are there enough teams to break rec into divisions. Thus, you have better teams in the top division, average in the next division below and terrible teams in a lower division. My kids leagues have coaches submit evaluations on their team talent level compared to others. Then the county runs seeding games in December to make sure a coach didn't sandbag his team. Generally, after 5th grade, everyone knows which teams are good and which teams aren't. [/quote]

Why are there pre-set teams? Most leagues do a skill evaluation and a draft.[/quote]

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