u/laceyourbootsup

This thread is not for judgement or criticism. I’m just looking to see what other people are doing/expectations are in your area…not whether it’s right or wrong

We are in CT. Our specific town is just 2 minors games and 1 minors practice a week. The minors game can be any day of the weekday with one game on Saturday. Practice is one weekday (random)

Our in town travel program (in spring season) plays 1 game per weekend (on Sundays). Due to the randomness of minor games and days, it’s near impossible to have practices for travel while in the spring season. So baseball is 4 days a week

We’ve been speaking with other towns who appear to have in town travel set days during the week and they are 2 minors game, 1 minors practice, 2 travel practices, 2 travel games per week with travel games being Sunday doubleheaders (so 5 days a week of baseball)

The majority of the posts we see on here and other subs about All-Star selection or travel selection are usually a complaint from a parent or coach, whose kid is negatively impacted.

I’m wondering if there are people/coaches out there who really like their All-Star selection process, and what about works well. Specifically for Little League All-Star teams.

Our league holds a one day, two hour tryout in the middle of the season. The group of people selecting the All-Stars are on the Little League board and I would say it’s fair but often misses some of the better players in the league (especially at 10u which is our first all star age).

It usually stems from parents who are not actively involved in the league and the kids fly under the radar for coaches who are more of the show up and Coach, but don’t know a whole lot about Baseball. Our minors program has 14 teams and a handful of them meet that criteria.

When it comes to kids and coaching and All-Star selections, nothing will ever be perfect. I just would like to know what other processes are out there that we might be able to institute.