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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While entire teams are not pre-made, the majority of them are.  Perhaps 70-80% of the roster.  This spring I knew two of the three coaches in my kid's age group.  Both coaches told me exactly which kids were getting offers to which teams and exactly which kids were not getting offers.

So, while there is perhaps 1-4 potential open spots it's not uncommon for teams to be "pre-made".  Now, the issue comes when clubs don't always place the best players with the top teams because they want all their teams to perform well so they spread out the bubble players.  This is unfair to those players because proper development requires players to be around players of even skill (usually).  Otherwise, it's a wasted season.[/quote]

That’s because of positioning requirements.

18 person teams don’t need 4 keepers right? Same is true of other positions, they don’t need 6 forwards or 4 center backs. So yes, the top 6 forwards in a club’s age bracket are going to get broken up across the top two teams, even if forward number 5 is - on a 4 corners eval - better than 14 of the players on the top team.[/quote]\

Not really, and especially not for something ENCL or MLSnext. There is a good chance that the 4th or fifth best forward at tryouts is a better left back than the second best left back. Talent tends to go to striker, center mid, and, to a lesser degree, center back. The top team is not going to keep a right mid when another kid who calls themselves a center mid could play the right mid better than them. The best teams are mostly former strikers and center mids who learned a new position. [/quote]

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