Question for coaches or those who actually may know - how do powers at be decide which teams are in what "group" within the same flight? Looking at my kid's team schedule - 3 groups in his flight. 2 have 9 teams each, one has 6. They do not seem to be geographically related as my kid's team will play a team from NY, while a team that is literally 2 minutes away is in a different group. why?! Is it so that there is no player poaching? Also, why would they not have 3 groups of 8 teams each, making it an even number of games for everyone? Not complaining or ranting, just curious really and trying to get the reasoning behind this.
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teams have every opportunity to ask to switch. Your club obviously wants your team in your group so ask them -
groups of 8 are bad in EDP (I think that is the number). You are supposed to get at least 8 league games so you have to play a random team(s) more than once. Group of 6 you play everyone twiceComment
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I always found it frustrating that depending on the number of teams in your flight, you could end up with such a dispersion in the number of games played across flights. No reason they cant say there has to be either 6, 10 or 11 teams in each flight and set the number of games at 9 or 10Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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did not realize teams (outside of big, well known clubs) have any say in it. Thought EDP looks at teams location and prior record and tries to match them up that way.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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big clubs might have more pull. But EDP doesnt want blow outs or teams dropping out. If you submit a request and say "hey, we lost our best 2 players, can you knock us down a notch" or "hey, can you switch us from Blue to Red since we are geographically better in the other one" they will probably help (if it will NOT affect them too much)Originally posted by Guest View Post
the first cut of things is pretty mathematical, but then everyone "has a say"Comment
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Has the U13 bracket been released?Comment
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