More games =more fun and more experience....what LL needs is the parents to be eliminated...they make a good sport bad
Is it just me, or have the amount of Little League games played skyrocketed over the past several years? Back when I played, we played 13 regular season games and then an all-star tourney. Now it seems leagues are playing more and more games. I know Norton has a 37 game schedule, Pound plays near 40 games, while Wise plays 18.
Personally, that's way too many games for kids 10-12 years old.
What are your thoughts on this?
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More games =more fun and more experience....what LL needs is the parents to be eliminated...they make a good sport bad
When I played (WAY back in the day) we played no more than 10-12 games against guys from our home town and then played in a post season tournament depending on your age. No more than 20 games total.
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The wear and tear on kids that age is too much with more than 12-13 games...especially the pitchers and catchers.. Players don't necessiarily get better playing a ton of games...they do get better with more time spent on the practice field tho...
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sup-rbeast</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The wear and tear on kids that age is too much with more than 12-13 games...especially the pitchers and catchers.. Players don't necessiarily get better playing a ton of games...they do get better with more time spent on the practice field tho... </div></div>
Looks like what they are doing is playing more games and practicing less.
the more games the better im in a little leauge org.and if you guys didnt know most some leages ages 5-11 are going to machince pitch so there is not that much stress on the kid's arms.
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Machine pitch takes at least one kid off the field per game who could be learning how to pitch. IMO t-ball taught the fundamentals well enough to be left alone...little league played enough games at 13 to make better players...why add all these pitching machines etc. etc. when the traditional way was enough to produce good players. Nowdays folks take kids sports like Little League way to seriously..without really understanding the damage that can be done to youngsters...It's not a job and anything over 15 games for these kids is overkill...I have 2 girls playing softball right now..and their schedule is ridiculous.
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The kid is out there with the coach or the maching playing the position.in the second half of the season they teach the kids the pitching fundamentals.and let them live pitch.If you they the scheduale is to much your your girls take it up at the next meeting untill you say somthing you have no Say so .
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When I played (WAY back in the day) we played t-ball at ages 5-6, played a handful of games. In minor league we faced live pitching, played each team twice. That added up to no more than 10 games. We learned the fundamentals of the game and had fun playing. Maybe played 1 or 2 games a week and practiced 1 or 2 days.
In little league, we would again practice a handful of times and play each team twice and then have all-stars. We never traveled around playing other towns or anything. There is such a thing as burning kids out. If you do things too much, you make it more of a job than a game, especially to young people. You have to give them just enough to teach them the game and have them wanting to play more.
Why not have them play less games, leave them wanting more, and having them working individually with their dads to learn the game!
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