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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The way little league works, Tball and single A (machine pitch) are neighborhood teams.

AA, AAA and Majors are all a draft (coach by coach). All five levels have overlapping age brackets. For example, my 11 year old can play in either AAA (weaker to average 11 year olds) or majors (average to stronger players). My nine year old could play in 3 different levels (AA, AAA, or majors if he was a superstar).

AA does not have a try out, except perhaps if your kid is a star and is officially too young for the level.

AAA and majors are tryouts, with the very best kids (usually 9-12 year olds) on majors.

With my oldest, the teams ended up being jumbled between a ton of different schools and several grades starting in AA, because the coaches the coaches were trying to draft winning teams. He only knew of one team that was a "neighborhood team" and this was a different school than his. All of the other teams have been blended teams, which I thinkis best at this level.

My younger son's level seems to always have a few "neighborhood teams" instead of teams that are drafted to create a balanced team from different schools. I thought it would endby AA, but it has continued through AAA and I anticipate maybe through majors. This is when it starts to sting.[b] Because the teams are drafted by the coach, and because they are comprised of all neighborhood kids, the kids not chosen think it is because the coaches or parents don't like or want them, or that they must be he worst baseball player in their school.[/b] It is much more demoralizing when it is a neighborhood team in a draft situation and one or two are left off, than when it is a draft situation where kids are coming from 4-7 different schools and are chosen by merit or by what type of players the coaches need filled. It is easier to swallow rejection based off ability than to be rejected from a group containing all your neighbors, friends or classmates. 
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That being said, LL coaches are volunteers and it takes a lot of time, so they shoukd be able to pick the team they want to coach. It sucks though to the kids left out.[/b]

One more thing, when they get picked for a majors team they stay with that coach until they move out of little league. I think that is designed to prevent coaches from drafting from other teams to create an unbalanced league with one unbeatable team.[/quote]

14:04 here.  That's not how it works with the Babe Ruth baseball leagues I'm familiar with in NOVA.  In the Rookies league (A level in LL), the kids are placed on teams based on school boundaries.  It's in the Minors (AA level equivalent) that they kids are drafted by coaches - but every player is drafted, no one is left out even through the Seniors level.  That continues on through all the levels.  This is why the one coach/parent created his own travel team so he could cherry pick the players he wanted.  Those kids that weren't picked remained on the rec team.

I also disagree that volunteer coaches should be allowed to leave kids out (which was what you seemed to imply).  I have no problem with a draft but in rec leagues, everyone should get to play.[/quote]

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