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High School 7v7, Travel Youth Sports

pnuts34
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With the off season upon us. I figured I’d start an interesting thread about the travel sports community at the youth level. Now I’ll admit, I personally don’t have a child under 12(my daughter is 25) playing youth sports. She did competitive dance and cheer, so it was similar. It just always baffled me how much this stuff costs for so few of them to ever earn a college scholarship and for many to even burn out by HS.

Parents are spending $1000s a year for 8-10yos is just insane to me. I have co worker who’s 10yo is playing travel soccer, and I’m talking out of state to FL, TX, NC, etc and he’s not even in MS! I don’t know how this helps or if this kid will even make a college roster as he’s playing year round(inside footsall in winter and outside in spring and summer). AAU bball tourneys have kids playing up to 9gms a weekend in their off season. So from April to July some kids are playing 2-3 games a day on the weekend, that’s an NBa season as a teenager! They all have become a racket, to where the majority of kids pays for the very few talented ones. And the kids who can’t afford to play and need development are being moved aside for the kid who lives in the suburbs and parents can afford every few imaginable.
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BP Fantasy Baseball est. 2008 (Current Champion = Ahiacitian)

heisman
Bucklion said:
That would be a disaster :lol: Some teams have 4 and 3 game series in a week, some have a 3 and a 2 with 2 travel days. Then you have starting pitchers...your entire rotation could miss a weekend. I don't know how that would ever work.
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Your previous thoughts led me to this. We only have 12 teams. There are 30 MLB teams. There is no way our 12 teams have 90 starters (top 3 on each team). So, the two game per week model would challenge more than using only 40% of MLB rosters. We could add 3 P slots and 3 H slots to each roster to accommodate. This still doesn’t even get us to 50% of MLB rosters. As it is, every third to fourth week,you are going to have your aces pitch twice in a week, which could also cause some luck/imbalance to a matchup.
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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Basketball Portal)

DZ83CK
South Carolina Gamecocks EJ Walker, Elijah Strong and Eli Ellis have been reported to be entering the transfer portal. Right now the Gamecocks have ZERO players that played in more than 40% of the team's minutes this season projected as returning. From a 13-19 team. OSU decommit Marcus Johnson, who signed with South Carolina last fall, had better bring an extra pair of shoes because he's going to be used a lot on that team. The transfer portal is just getting warmed up ...
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BP Fantasy Baseball est. 2008 (Current Champion = Ahiacitian)

Bucklion
heisman said:
I actually think it would be awesome to have two games per week. A Mon.-Th game, and a Fri.-Sun. game.
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That would be a disaster :lol: Some teams have 4 and 3 game series in a week, some have a 3 and a 2 with 2 travel days. Then you have starting pitchers...your entire rotation could miss a weekend. I don't know how that would ever work.
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BP Fantasy Baseball est. 2008 (Current Champion = Ahiacitian)

Bucklion
iambrutus said:
i got my ass kicked... more games wouldn't have helped :slappy:
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Well when you're going with a 4th/5th starter strategy because you used all of your top picks on hitters that suck pond water drainage like me...at least getting to where guys actually pitched would have helped. I don't think I even got to the minimum innings in 4 days.
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