"When you have as many teams as LI does yes the talent may get diluted but overall I think we are doing pretty well. The World Series has been dominated by Long Island teams. Every World Series winner has been from LI. 3 different club teams from Long Island have won it and 4 different club teams from Long Island have made the finals.This is the only age based national tournament. Normally when we play outside LI we are playing teams that have older kids on their roster (some more than others). This has to be taken into consideration."

I am the original poster of "diluted"...I agree with your observation quoted above.