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Originally Posted by mtn335
Here's a system used by a youth soccer league I played in when I was little: the coaches drafting all sit in a room and work to create the teams for the league in such a way that they are all evenly matched. The catch: except for coaches' children, the coaches don't know which team they will get! After the rosters are made, the coaches are assigned to the teams at random.
Coaches have incentive, then, to make the teams as evenly matched as possible. This would also allow the coaches and administrators to factor school groupings in as well (trying to make teams that made geographical sense as well as being evenly matched on skill).
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I like this.
One thing my wreck ball league did different this year than when I remember playing was after the regular season, having 2 different tournaments, top half and bottom half based on record. They had two champions and there weren't 5-6 teams that knew for sure they would be blown out in the first round. I think it worked well