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Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad
Well, here is how it works.
In the fall, the league basically allows you to load your team with as many returning players as you want. Fall baseball is supposed to be less competitive and more about skill development.
In the spring, you can "freeze" up to 7 players that have played for you previously, either in the fall or the previous spring. All players that are not frozen go into a pool for the draft.
So basically what this guy is trying to do is upgrade the quality of players he will be freezing in the spring by pulling my good players onto his team for the fall.
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Got it. IMO, that's not a great way to run the league.
In ours, for fall ball, it was just put together whatever team you want. No draft, you just form your own team with whoever you want, and however many teams are formed is how many are in the league. Scores were kept, but there were no standings, no post season, etc. Just a fun, casual fall season, which was fun.
Spring, though, you start from scratch. Tryouts, draft, no "protected" players. Every coach has a shot at every player.
I think that is a FAR better method, for a variety of reasons. It gets rid of the "game playing" you are experiencing. Every coach has an equal chance in the draft at the beginning of each spring. You get far more parity among the teams, b/c the coaches all know who the top players are, and every spring they get more or less equally spread out among all the teams. Makes for a better season for everyone.
And, IMO it's better to have the LL teams mixed up every year. They are only very young kids, and it's better to force them to meet new kids, have new teammates, new environment, make new friends etc. every year. It's better for them.