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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Time trials aren't that important. Coaches can estimate and then use times from the first meet.

This isn't the Olympics.

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When a team doesn't hold time trials, it's so obnoxious. There are only 5 regular meets, and the first one is completely screwed up by the coach's "estimating."

I think this is highlighting the difference between upper level divisions and lower divisions. Lower divisions often are struggling to get 6 legal swimmers to fill the lanes. So the coach's estimation ends up being the difference between who gets put in lane 3 vs lane 5- not a big deal both kids swim. OTOH, if you have 30 kids competing for those 6 a meet spots- and several of them have times within tenths of a second of each other- you really need the formality of time trials and a ladder to say who swims.

The odds of more than 2 kids on the same team being within tenths of second and also being far enough up the ladder to be concerned about A meets are almost zero. Consider as an example: https://www.mynvsl.com/leaders?post=1&mt=0&age=2&sex=1&st=1&stroke=50-free&m=1&year=2022&count=25&division=1&team=271

Prove it or it didn't happen.


Disagree. At least on our team, we have a ton of club swimmers, and many are very close.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Time trials aren't that important. Coaches can estimate and then use times from the first meet.

This isn't the Olympics.

-1

When a team doesn't hold time trials, it's so obnoxious. There are only 5 regular meets, and the first one is completely screwed up by the coach's "estimating."

I think this is highlighting the difference between upper level divisions and lower divisions. Lower divisions often are struggling to get 6 legal swimmers to fill the lanes. So the coach's estimation ends up being the difference between who gets put in lane 3 vs lane 5- not a big deal both kids swim. OTOH, if you have 30 kids competing for those 6 a meet spots- and several of them have times within tenths of a second of each other- you really need the formality of time trials and a ladder to say who swims.

The odds of more than 2 kids on the same team being within tenths of second and also being far enough up the ladder to be concerned about A meets are almost zero. Consider as an example: https://www.mynvsl.com/leaders?post=1&mt=0&age=2&sex=1&st=1&stroke=50-free&m=1&year=2022&count=25&division=1&team=271