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Post by Mark on Jan 28, 2008 21:00:30 GMT -8
2. Have "inter-league" and not play every team in TLL. Doesn't work b/c it creates an unbalanced schedule which will inevitably tilt the odds in favor of some teams b/c by luck of the draw they get an easier schedule. #2 works just fine as long as ALL 4 league only count league games for determining who goes to any post season play. like i said earlier if i am a NS manager, nothing would please me more than 2 games against other NS teams to determine city tournament and City Championship. plus line me up with the hardest non leagues games available to prepare my team for possible playoffs.............
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Post by scrapper on Jan 29, 2008 22:30:46 GMT -8
Guys:
22 games were fine last year and everybody played there league twice. It is just National has grown. AE/Am can play their own league twice and still have 22 games. In National, we would play 7 games and what if we have three teams that go 4-3. or 3-4. Tiebreakers are going to be a nightmare and to be honest the coin flips suck. If National has eight teams and we play 14 leagues games and play everybody else once we have 25 games. If National has 7 teams we are down to 12 leagues game and 23 total. That is only one more than last year. If we don't take easter week off, we should be able to fit it in fine. What do you think?
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Post by Chris on Jan 29, 2008 22:36:49 GMT -8
Last year A/AE chose to do things a little differently so seeding got screwed up for the City Championship. 19 games is plenty. What difference does it make how many times you play within your league?
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Post by scrapper on Jan 29, 2008 22:58:03 GMT -8
I just think you should play your league twice. I know this sound bogus, but I don't think going 2-6 out of gate, which will be most of the teams in N/NS this year is very productive. plus if you have a bad interleague record, all it will take is 3 losses in your league and you will be out of it. That is a 10-9 season. Before the re-draft, I would say probably 4 teams could come out of interleague with 3 or 4 wins, now maybe one or two.
I will go either way, but you have to look at where we are at right now.
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Post by Chris on Jan 29, 2008 23:05:24 GMT -8
If the BOD opts to go the way they have decided then they going to get owned by A/AE no matter how many games you play. They have eliminated the two teams that might have held their own (Giants & Dodgers). It seems they have accepted that A/AE will once again school N/NS. They may even take all stars this year.
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Post by Randy Edwards on Jan 31, 2008 7:26:31 GMT -8
Have you guys figured out how many teams your adding now that try oouts have started ?
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Post by Greenie on Jan 31, 2008 9:23:51 GMT -8
No. We let kids sign up all the way through tryouts and we DON'T have a waiting list It's going to really close between adding 2 or 3 teams. We're keeping our fingers crossed it's only 2.
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Post by Greenie on Jan 31, 2008 9:24:28 GMT -8
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Post by Randy Edwards on Jan 31, 2008 12:53:52 GMT -8
LMAO..... Then your not following little league rules ....Something about attending 50% of try outs ?? and if its only 2 teams are still redrafting ?
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Post by DiamondbacksMom on Jan 31, 2008 13:00:15 GMT -8
I keep reading that the National/NS won't be competitive if we do a re-draft and that the American/AE will dominate us etc.. Yet if we don't do a re-draft it won't be fair to the 2 poor expansion teams and they will suck..blah blah blah. What I don't understand is why not just have 2 teams that aren't potentially competitive instead of now 7 teams that nobody thinks will be good enough? Doesn't make sense to me But then again, I'm just an outsider and not in the thick of things so that might be why I don't understand the logic
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Post by Randy Edwards on Jan 31, 2008 13:15:11 GMT -8
giantsmom: As on outsider you have some keen insight.....
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Post by crash23 on Jan 31, 2008 20:34:30 GMT -8
IMO playing two games against your own league causes more havoc than playing one. With one game there's no tie-breakers. And as far as the possibility of getting off to a poor start that's where good coaching comes in. And for everyone assuming that N/NS can't compete with most of the teams from A/AE that assuming a lot. Granted, the former Pads (now Tigers) and Angels will be loaded but the rest of us in A/AE will be battling like everyone else in town. And with LLs new catching rule, a lot of games will be a battle of passed balls... Maybe we should just dump the whole program and start over with a Cal Ripken league!
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Post by Mark on Feb 1, 2008 1:28:10 GMT -8
new catching rule? what is that?
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Post by Randy Edwards on Feb 1, 2008 4:31:05 GMT -8
If you on the mound for 1 pitch you can not catch !!!!!!! However you can go the other way They will let you go from the dish to the mound ?
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Post by scrapper on Feb 1, 2008 13:59:08 GMT -8
That was my whole point from the start of this conversation giantsmom, now everybody is jumping on the bandwagon of not re-drafting and adding additional 12's to the existing teams so that we only add 2 teams. But the BOD spoke and decided otherwise. As far as the coaching goes, we will do the best that we can.
Now some do not want to interleague. I still want to interleague, we just need to make sure everybody is on the same page.
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