Kids,
I'm curious about which draft process you feel is best for youth baseball leagues and why.
The league I'm in now (Dixie) has a protect system. In the 9-10 division, each manager can protect four kids. Coaches make calls to the parents before the start of the season and conspire to build super teams. Parents have to sign sheets saying that their kids will play for Coach X. Naturally, one coach protected the four (perceived) best plus got a talented sibling via a rule that allows a brother to be unavailable to other coaches until a certain draft round. The parents like this arrangement because they know their kids will win a lot of games. I assume it also joins the best players with the best coaches.
It seems like their approach will lead to some lopsided games. My team lost 13-3 to that superteam. Frankly, it should have been much closer. I could see my team winning the next game. But that's only because 10 kids followed me from Little League, and I was able to protect four of them. One poor manager didn't know any kids and didn't protect a single player.
I'm curious about which draft process you feel is best for youth baseball leagues and why.
The league I'm in now (Dixie) has a protect system. In the 9-10 division, each manager can protect four kids. Coaches make calls to the parents before the start of the season and conspire to build super teams. Parents have to sign sheets saying that their kids will play for Coach X. Naturally, one coach protected the four (perceived) best plus got a talented sibling via a rule that allows a brother to be unavailable to other coaches until a certain draft round. The parents like this arrangement because they know their kids will win a lot of games. I assume it also joins the best players with the best coaches.
It seems like their approach will lead to some lopsided games. My team lost 13-3 to that superteam. Frankly, it should have been much closer. I could see my team winning the next game. But that's only because 10 kids followed me from Little League, and I was able to protect four of them. One poor manager didn't know any kids and didn't protect a single player.
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