Do you really believe that there's a correlation between 7v7 indoor and a real lacrosse game?
Whether indoor soccer or lacrosse, the results of the small sided games are often well correlated to outdoor success. While that might break the hearts of some purists, it is the truth.
Also, Coastal, Bethpage, Farmingdale, Mt Sinai indoor and every other winter league we've ever played kept no standings, most didn't even have scores at the games.
BOTC believes that receiving the services provided by a league - including results and standings - should be a standard for the money being charged to families and the teams.
Do you think that there's any benefit...
Yes. The biggest problem reported to us here at BOTC regarding leagues and tournaments deals with unbalanced competition. Until results are recorded as a standard procedure, teams will continue to either be placed too high or too low in competitive ability.
... to a team and it's weaker players...
Keeping records is actually more important for weaker teams to make sure that these development players are not "run over" by more seasoned or skilled players and teams.
... in particular for them to be playing to win at all costs in winter league indoor games?
Win-at-all-cost mentalities will exist in sports - and in particular youth sports - whether or not standings are kept. Bottom line is that if a score is kept, someone in the stands is making notes on the winners and losers.
Especially at the younger ages where the entire game can be decided by 2-3 kids on each team.
For some reason, lacrosse just does not want to cross the great divide of actually ranking teams - perish the thought. Until you are willing to actually rank the teams into brackets, you will never get over this unbalanced competition issue.
