Originally Posted by Anonymous
NEW TOPIC QUESTION.....What is the magic number for kids on a roster. My son's team has 24 kids and I think that is too many and so do a lot of the parents. Obviously if you play everyone equal time the team talent/record will suffer. Seems like the better teams don't have huge rosters. I'm hearing Team 91 has 27 on the roster.

Ideal number for a team that plays mostly tournaments, but also HoCo is between 18-21.

4-5 attack
7-8 middies (including fogos)
5-6 poles (including LSMs)
2 goalies

Fewer and you run into problems when kids have conflicts. Once you get much above 21, hard to kids into games. For a HOCO only 6th grade team the ideal number is probably like 16-18, but you have to take tournaments and absences into account.