Anonymous
01/19/2021 13:43
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
Anonymous wrote:"may need some help" = expecting to get blown out every game
it depends. I know our club does it this year because our bottom team would have no subs without kids playing down. The kids playing down are subs and don't get much playing time and usually play out of position when they are in. It works out for everyone, the B team kids would have just been cut otherwise because there weren't enough to field a team and the A team kids get a little extra playing time and a chance to try out new things
Anonymous
01/19/2021 12:53
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DC and teammates were asked to “play down” a year to help the year-below team for their club. It sounds like that year-below team is playing a year-up during the Spring 2021 EDP season and, according to the email, “may need some help.”
Is this routinely done? Sure, my DC would love to get some extra touches in, but this seems unfair to the unsuspecting teams in the 2nd or 3rd EDP bracket who we’re probably not anticipating ECNL-level competition. It also seems, I don’t know, a little unethical to artificially boost the younger team’s ranking by stuffing the team with older players.
I know the easy answer is just to bow out and not have DC participate, but the whole thing feels a little slimy to us.
are you saying your DC currently plays ECNL and they are asking for ECNL players to help out an EDP team? I would have a concern if my child ,who is on the EDP team, loses playing time to an ECNL kid. Sounds like somebody is trying to stack their team for wins....
If it is boys ECNL it isn't really that big a drop to play EDP
Depending on the age group, it's a big step up.
Anonymous
01/19/2021 12:53
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DC and teammates were asked to “play down” a year to help the year-below team for their club. It sounds like that year-below team is playing a year-up during the Spring 2021 EDP season and, according to the email, “may need some help.”
Is this routinely done? Sure, my DC would love to get some extra touches in, but this seems unfair to the unsuspecting teams in the 2nd or 3rd EDP bracket who we’re probably not anticipating ECNL-level competition. It also seems, I don’t know, a little unethical to artificially boost the younger team’s ranking by stuffing the team with older players.
I know the easy answer is just to bow out and not have DC participate, but the whole thing feels a little slimy to us.
are you saying your DC currently plays ECNL and they are asking for ECNL players to help out an EDP team? I would have a concern if my child ,who is on the EDP team, loses playing time to an ECNL kid. Sounds like somebody is trying to stack their team for wins....
Or she could see that she's going to lose playing time if she doesn't step it up. Imagine that.
Anonymous
01/19/2021 12:52
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DC and teammates were asked to “play down” a year to help the year-below team for their club. It sounds like that year-below team is playing a year-up during the Spring 2021 EDP season and, according to the email, “may need some help.”
Is this routinely done? Sure, my DC would love to get some extra touches in, but this seems unfair to the unsuspecting teams in the 2nd or 3rd EDP bracket who we’re probably not anticipating ECNL-level competition. It also seems, I don’t know, a little unethical to artificially boost the younger team’s ranking by stuffing the team with older players.
I know the easy answer is just to bow out and not have DC participate, but the whole thing feels a little slimy to us.
are you saying your DC currently plays ECNL and they are asking for ECNL players to help out an EDP team? I would have a concern if my child ,who is on the EDP team, loses playing time to an ECNL kid. Sounds like somebody is trying to stack their team for wins....
If it is boys ECNL it isn't really that big a drop to play EDP
Anonymous
01/19/2021 12:51
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
Anonymous wrote:My DC and teammates were asked to “play down” a year to help the year-below team for their club. It sounds like that year-below team is playing a year-up during the Spring 2021 EDP season and, according to the email, “may need some help.”
Is this routinely done? Sure, my DC would love to get some extra touches in, but this seems unfair to the unsuspecting teams in the 2nd or 3rd EDP bracket who we’re probably not anticipating ECNL-level competition. It also seems, I don’t know, a little unethical to artificially boost the younger team’s ranking by stuffing the team with older players.
I know the easy answer is just to bow out and not have DC participate, but the whole thing feels a little slimy to us.
are you saying your DC currently plays ECNL and they are asking for ECNL players to help out an EDP team? I would have a concern if my child ,who is on the EDP team, loses playing time to an ECNL kid. Sounds like somebody is trying to stack their team for wins....
Anonymous
01/18/2021 20:21
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
"may need some help" = expecting to get blown out every game
Anonymous
01/18/2021 19:44
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
Its annoying no matter the logistics. When we play a team, we expect to play that team. It is slimy. We got beat by a team all fall and learned on accident at the end of the fall that they had permanent every week from a higher team. In the meantime our boys constantly lost and just felt like failures. Teams are matched by skill level for a reason.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 19:29
Subject: Re:“Playing down” an age group for EDP
Anonymous wrote:So your DC would be playing on age while most of the team would be playing up a year?
If that is the situation there is nothing wrong with it and it is done quite frequently.
Yes— under the younger team’s name.
Thanks for the feedback. Had never heard of this before. Guess we’ll roll with it.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 19:25
Subject: Re:“Playing down” an age group for EDP
So your DC would be playing on age while most of the team would be playing up a year?
If that is the situation there is nothing wrong with it and it is done quite frequently.
If that is the situation there is nothing wrong with it and it is done quite frequently.
Anonymous
01/18/2021 19:21
Subject: “Playing down” an age group for EDP
My DC and teammates were asked to “play down” a year to help the year-below team for their club. It sounds like that year-below team is playing a year-up during the Spring 2021 EDP season and, according to the email, “may need some help.”
Is this routinely done? Sure, my DC would love to get some extra touches in, but this seems unfair to the unsuspecting teams in the 2nd or 3rd EDP bracket who we’re probably not anticipating ECNL-level competition. It also seems, I don’t know, a little unethical to artificially boost the younger team’s ranking by stuffing the team with older players.
I know the easy answer is just to bow out and not have DC participate, but the whole thing feels a little slimy to us.
Is this routinely done? Sure, my DC would love to get some extra touches in, but this seems unfair to the unsuspecting teams in the 2nd or 3rd EDP bracket who we’re probably not anticipating ECNL-level competition. It also seems, I don’t know, a little unethical to artificially boost the younger team’s ranking by stuffing the team with older players.
I know the easy answer is just to bow out and not have DC participate, but the whole thing feels a little slimy to us.