Originally Posted by Anonymous
Whoever used the two year system ..In NPYLL the AA was generally for the best teams..It had a lot of second year players at that age .less skilled teams and any teams with a bunch of first year players at that age played A. Could have easily been U15, U14,U13,U12. etc...Instead Crabs and others decided to go grade base to accommodate the private school holdbacks..Crabs know that they are going to get a bunch of holdbacks if not majority in Balt. Crabs have a good lax reputation especially at Private schools... ....
With the explosion of Club teams thus played perfectly into the Crabs,,They get the holdbacks....thus better teams.


For some teams, single A could have been U14, U12, U10, But some teams had more than 1/2 their starters from the older U15AA ,U13AA, U11AA age groups. Breakers didn't even have a U11aa team - guess where those kids played.