OT - rec league dilemma

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

How about a hybrid....pick the first 2-3 so each team has a similar number of skilled players and then divide the rest based on school.

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).