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From: "Nancy Stebbing" <nancy.stebbing@tesco.net>
To: "britdisc" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: London League 2000, summer leagues in general
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:44:28 -0000
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Sorry to be late with my two cents-  I was on the beach--
>
> Just fyi, the leagues in the states and canada are not
> allowed to be joined by pre-formed teams...what you do
> is enter individually, stating your fitness ability,
> your ability ranking, how long you've played etc

That's not strictly true.  Pittsburgh has grown their summer league by
something disgusting- like 400%- by coming up with a compromise.  Teams ARE
pre-formed, to a point.

Here's how it works-

A team 'enters' the draft with a player base of no more than 4 top-level
players-  i.e. players who play on the city open squad or are of high skill
and just play for fun now.  The players submit their playing skill level,
but the organizing committe does sometimes step in to fix discrepancies.  A
team can have up to two more 'mid-level'players, and as many
'low-level'players as it wants in it's base, making it easy for beginners to
play with people they know and making it worthwhile to recruit the studly
sprinter who can't throw, yet.  (As an aside, those of you who remember the
American Brett who played with Shotgun a few years ago- he was recruited to
my summer league team because he could run, but had enver played before.  He
became, as you might guess, a huge asset with a little training, so the
system works.)  All unassigned players are put into a draft.  The draft DOES
contain top-level players as well as beginners.  The draft meeting also sees
some team bases forming on the spot, with experienced players forming new
teams which take only begginers in the draft to help the league grow.

Anyway, the result is that you get a number of teams close in ability
(although there are usually two or three teams above the average level); you
get to play with people you might not get to play with on your competetive
tournament team; and new players are recruited, trained, have fun, and most
importantly come back the next year!!!!!!

Just another way to do things-

Nancy Stebbing
currently teamless