PAL is the LOWEST form of lacrosse, so to go A and B is ridiculous. Maybe in 5th or 6th grades. The better kids will get enough high level competition outside of PAL. A rising tide lifts all ships and will help the other players in their town to develop when they are all together. Up until 5th grade or so, the skill set on the B team--I don't care what town you're from--is not strong enough to carry a team. Once this develops, then you can split and it will actually benefit the bubble players that fell to B because they will assume a role they wouldn't of had on the A team. The reason I think there was a push for A teams in PAL is because you had big, good lax towns fielding one team for PAL strong pal team that was beating up on other towns (Long Beach, Smithtown, Three Village) and the other good lax towns got sick of it and said we can do the same--then those big guys didn't even sign up to play in the "A" division.