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Post by utchuckd on Jun 20, 2010 13:22:40 GMT -6
I'd always heard our youth league was political and had a lot of infighting and stronghandedness from some people. I'd never paid a whole lot of attention til I joined up last year. What its evolved to has got to be some of the most jacked up eligibility/draft rules out there. First off, each team gets 5 options. So you go out and sign up the 5 best athletes you can before the draft. And that's 5 PER YEAR. Our options from last year are still on the team, and we're out trying to get 5 more for this year. Then, since all the teams don't have equal numbers of kids, the teams with the lower number amount on their roster pick first out of the draft until they have the same number as the rest! We have 18 players coming back, one team has 11, another has 13. So the team with 11 gets 2 draft picks off the top, then they alternate with the team with 13 til they both get to 18, then we get to join in.
If I wasn't running the UBSW and 46 gambler I'd be worried. ;D ;D
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 20, 2010 20:05:26 GMT -6
I'm not sure how that's unfair ( I mean, I know it's unfair, but can't for the life of me determine who is actually going to get the screw) It seems really really confusing, and probably the product of people making rules as they go without ever stopping to think about how all the rules interplayed. You seem kinda screwed, because you have 18 players and don't get to draft till the end, but you also get 10 "free agents." I'm lost and confused.
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Post by utchuckd on Jun 22, 2010 6:13:03 GMT -6
I had a few more things explained and there actually is some logic in there somewhere, just not what I'm used to. We are a 10-12 year old league, so they start with the 12 yo's and the teams with the least numbers of those pick until everybody has the same number. Then they go to the 11 yo's and do the same with them. I can understand why they do that so teams don't get overloaded with 1 age group.
The whole 5 options thing is still crazy to me tho. I see that as taking the first five rounds of the draft and saying to the teams you go decide that between yourselves before the draft.
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Post by ojowens411 on Jun 22, 2010 11:29:29 GMT -6
Coach,
Have you used your second set of 5 options this year yet? If not, I would think to use a couple of those on the more talented 11's. Then next season you already have some good kids on your team as you prepare to draft again, because if your draft is basically getting the left over kids after the other teams have caught up (in #'s) for an age group...you could already have a leg up on the other teams by using your options on some kids that would have been taken before you could get to them...just a thought. Those 11's you optioned this year could be good for your team for the next 2 seasons.
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