SCDSL - playing same teams 3 times in one season?

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My dd's team has 6 teams in her Flight 1, South II division. They are playing 12 games. Against 5 teams. So they'll play 3 of those teams twice and 2 of those teams 3 times each. There are 7 teams in the South I division. Any idea why they didn't just make a South division and play each team once?
 
Probably because of the age group and parents complaining about the driving distances...

Just as the thread discusses in this section earlier.

So if one doesn't want to drive far, then one plays the same teams more...
 
My dd's team has 6 teams in her Flight 1, South II division. They are playing 12 games. Against 5 teams. So they'll play 3 of those teams twice and 2 of those teams 3 times each. There are 7 teams in the South I division. Any idea why they didn't just make a South division and play each team once?

SCDSL works in mysterious ways......
 
Probably because of the age group and parents complaining about the driving distances...

Just as the thread discusses in this section earlier.

So if one doesn't want to drive far, then one plays the same teams more...


I'm not going to lose any sleep over this/just curious why they have them broken into such small divisions. And I don't think it has anything to do with driving distances...here are the teams:

South I
DMCV Sharks G2005 EGSL - Favor

LA Galaxy Orange County G05 Premier Gonzales
Laguna United FC G05 Blue
Pateadores RSM/LH G2005
San Diego Soccer Club G2005 Academy Navy
Slammers FC G05 RR
So Cal Blues 2005 Vaught

South II
GPS-Orange County G2005 Red San Diego
LA Galaxy Orange County G05 Premier Silva
OC Surf G05 Filipovic
San Diego Force FC Academy G2005- A. Ocampo
Slammers FC G05 Reserve
So Cal Blues 2005 Kale


http://elements.demosphere.com/73496/teams/91742887/92486511-91743002/TEAM.html
 
Seems that about 2 years ago, someone at SCDSL decided that playing a team 2 or 3 times a season was better than having 1 big bracket and just playing each team once.
 

Look at the bright side - you don't have 4 Slammers and 5 Pats teams in your bracket
 
They don't want Blues, LAGOC or Slammers teams playing each other so they split them up.

Since I'm a betting man, and since I don't have a kid in this group, I pick SDSC in South 1 and Force or GPS in South 2. You're welcome.
 
Seems that about 2 years ago, someone at SCDSL decided that playing a team 2 or 3 times a season was better than having 1 big bracket and just playing each team once.
Sometimes, it is beneficial to play teams twice in a season, so that you can better measure development over a period of time.
 

Would it be that the South 1 is the supposedly higher level F1 and South 2 is the lower level or teams that are new to F1?
 
Would it be that the South 1 is the supposedly higher level F1 and South 2 is the lower level or teams that are new to F1?
I think all but maybe 4 of those teams are new to F1 and scattered in both South 1 and South 2 and some of those returning teams are new'ish teams with a lot of roster changes
 
My dd's team has 6 teams in her Flight 1, South II division. They are playing 12 games. Against 5 teams. So they'll play 3 of those teams twice and 2 of those teams 3 times each. There are 7 teams in the South I division. Any idea why they didn't just make a South division and play each team once?

Read everybody's comments ... [SIGH] (<-- big sigh). The reason the brackets are smaller is because of the limited playoff format for this age group. Only the top 3 teams go to the playoffs, thus, in order to have playoffs for this age group (across the flight levels and genders) you need to send a minimum number of teams, therefore, its required to break the Flight up sufficiently so more teams get to punch their ticket.

With small brackets and a guaranteed 12 games (its 10 at the older groups with expanded playoffs - FYI), you are going to have situations where teams play the same team multiple times.

That is why.
 
Could it be that there are way too many teams in club soccer? Could it be that there are too many teams pushing for flight 1, which makes no sense. Given that flight 1 is about the 7th tier of club soccer now?

I believe even within flight 1 are three tiers.

The whole thing is ridiculous.
 
Could it be that there are way too many teams in club soccer? Could it be that there are too many teams pushing for flight 1, which makes no sense. Given that flight 1 is about the 7th tier of club soccer now?

I believe even within flight 1 are three tiers.

The whole thing is ridiculous.

OK, which teams should we get rid of first? Probably just nix all of Tier 3 and the bottom half of Tier 2? Those kids can all play rec because kids who aren't really good don't need to play year round even if they love it.
 
OK, which teams should we get rid of first? Probably just nix all of Tier 3 and the bottom half of Tier 2? Those kids can all play rec because kids who aren't really good don't need to play year round even if they love it.


The beast has already been created. There’s really no need, and not enough talent, to have more than 2 teams per age group within a club.

So there are DA and ECNL. Let’s push those aside.

Now you have flight 1. There are still too many clubs, but OK. Why can’t the top team at each club exist there? You can still have a champions league for the top teams and the Europa for the others.

But that’s it. Move everything else into a secondary flight. If this is truly about player development, move them to the top team.

This is not 2010 and the SCDSL isn’t new anymore. It started cleaner with the parent clubs, somewhat like CSL had.

We are in the land of disposable income,
So there’s no stopping it now. It’s ugly as it lies.

I’d say for any team looking to strengthen their games and schedules, they can play in some of these additional formats like CRL and NPL and WTF.
 
I think my kid's team plays a couple of the same teams twice.
Personally, I'd rather do that than drive 3 hours to play a new team.
With all the tournament play, there is plenty of opportunity to play against other teams.
IMHO, it can be good to play a team multiple times. I think it gives an opportunity to focus on different things than perhaps playing against a complete unknown. Maybe the defender is strong or weak that is going up against your kid. Maybe they have a really talented offensive player going against your kid-- it maybe allows them to focus on something more specific.
I think it also allows one to learn the local landscape better. What coaches you may like/dislike. What players your kid may end up potentially playing with.
At the end of the day, we all get a little more weekend. That is a good thing.
 
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