Originally Posted by Anonymous
4th graders playing up on a 5th grade team in 90 percent of the cases do not make a team better. One can argue that they make the team weaker unless they are better than the top 11 kids. They take away meaningful playing time and just water down the team as a whole. Cut the roster back to 18-20 kids and the team would be much stronger. There are exceptions to this rule but they are rare.


Actually if they are better than the bottom 10 players it makes your team better. Agreed making roster size 18-20 would make each team stronger but that will not happen ,it's a business.I guarantee if you took all the2020 kids off the 2019 team that 2019 team is considerably weaker.Anyone familiar with that team realizes that.Anyone with older kids and who have gone thru this travel stuff before also realizes how silly this conversation is.