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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would argue basketball and football are the most fair in the sense that the coaches are trying to sell tickets thus are more competitive.  The more competitive a sport is the less likely "other" factors come into play in making decisions.  My high school's football team had skills-based competitions.  Kids broke arms trying to get spots on the starting squad.

Some would argue that "size" makes them unfair, but there are plenty of sports where size is an advantage, basketball and football attract and retain the biggest and best athletes.  It always annoyed me that my coaches were all sawed off former point guards that were jealous of size, but you know it isn't like they said Hey let's build a short team of our buddies' kids, so I give them credit for that.  I'm trying to get my daughter on a swim team.  They don't seem to care that she stands a whole head taller than all the other kids on the team.  It's amazing, you can look at the Olympic swimming roster all the women are around six foot tall, nope they've got every one of the smallest kids from the summer league on the competitive roster.  It's absurd.  They are clearly not competitive minded.
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what is your height/spouses height? I wonder if they are looking at that. My son looks smaller than peers but he’s in the 95 percentage. Hes just young for his peer group. Dad/mom are 6’2/5’8 so he should be fairly tall. I wonder if they see the growth potential from parents. 
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