Originally Posted by Anonymous
For almost a month I read comments about how the teams added players and how much better they got. Suddenly they lose games and the blame is on the teams not having players. Seems the programs need to do a better job selecting players. Teams know well in advance what tournaments they have entered and to rationalize losses due to players playing other sports is laughable. Every team has the same risk of players missing games due to injury or sickness.

The bottomline is that the better teams won. Losses can't be justified by saying "if only we had different /other players we would have won. Citing "imaginary teams" only matters in one's imagination.

Thanks Hero's Dad for that insightful analysis. Maybe next tournament, Hero's will win a game.