Heresy
I know this is heresy but I believe that soccer has a better model for youth sports. The separate categories of teams - house teams (and more three levels for leagues) , traveling teams and Olympic development teams within age groups creates different expectations from the parents. As a result, for those parents who child has developed talent at a young age, they can have them perform with other children of similar talent.
For major sports like baseball, football and basketball, American youth organizations do not create enough of a distinction between participatory leagues and competitive leagues.
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