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[quote=Anonymous][/quote] I think I know how averages work, but since you brought up stats, we can go more in depth. You definitely have a distributions of skills and abilities in any team and nobody disputes that. You can do the stats for each player and come up with solid numbers of who is at the top, who is average, and who is below the average. You can even point out to a p-value that makes this one player unfit to make it on the court, so you have a good reason to bench her. But there is a bigger issue here: why didn't the club realize that during the tryouts? Why did the club make an offer to this player if her skills and abilities are so poor compared to the rest of the team? Most players new to a club have no idea what team they are going to end up on until they see their teammates at practice. How would they know that they are at the bottom with p-values that give them no chance to see the court? [/quote]

Presumably you know how crazy tryouts for club usually are every year, given that you're commenting on this forum. There are also any number of reasons for that. Sometimes a player has a really strong showing at tryouts that it turns out is out of character for their usual performance. Sometimes they don't get the best evaluation because they have more than 100 girls to sift through. Sometimes the club wants each roster to have a certain number of players (typically 12), and depending on the age/location of the club and their tryouts, they might have to work pretty far down the waitlist because players took other offers and the coaches had to scramble. I have mostly coached 14s and 15s in my club career, and three different years have not been able to fill out my roster until the "everybody is a free agent" portion of the tryout window, simply because that's how much movement there is in that age range in general (the most popular years to try club) and my area in particular. As I said earlier, I personally DO attempt to play everyone in every pool play match, but playing time expectations are also something I lay out before our first practice (as every coach should). Still, I can imagine a lot of variables from tryouts, practices, and tournaments that could definitely affect an athlete's court time depending on the coach, and the OP never really shared anything that would eliminate even some of the more obvious options.[/quote]

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