Team Selection "Draft"

OYO strives to balance its teams and create parity in each league by selecting players based on evaluation scores.  That's why having your player attend evaluations each year is so important. 

Here's how the process works:  Based on the number of registered players at the time of the draft, OYO determines how many teams will be needed.  Suppose there are 120 registered players, we would form 10 teams of 12 players each.  For the draft, players are first divided by age, then by evaluation score.  In a league of 9 and 10 year olds, the 10 year olds would be ordered from top to bottom by evaluation score, followed by the 9 year olds in the same manner.  Suppose there were fifty 10 year olds.  The ranked order by score would be split every tenth player because there will be 10 teams.  Round 1 is made of the 10 highest ranked players, round 2 the next ten, round 3 the next ten, and so on.  Each team picks a player from each round.  A coach is automatically assigned his/her child when that child's round is drafted (i.e. the coach "picks" his/her child).  The process repeats for the 9 year olds in groups of 10 from highest to lowest beginning in round 6.  Each team ends up with 12 players.  However, there is a twist to the process.  To keep a new coach that doesn't know the players and could thus be at a disadvantage in a true draft system, the teams are switched among the coaches in a blind draw.  Thus, a coach only keeps the team he drafted if he picks his own number in the draw.  In other words, coach #2 could be assigned draft team #8 with the exception that each coach keeps his child.  This can result in coach #2 having multiple players from the same draft round, thus player trades are made among the teams so that each team once again has a player from each draft round.  We're still not quite done!  Given all of the above, additional trades may be made to place assistant coach and team parent volunteers on each team, to avoid having too many travel players on the same team, and to avoid having more than one player linked with a designated sponsor on the same team, but in the end every team has a player from every draft round.

 

OYO hopes you agree that the team swapping among coaches and player balancing by evaluation score creates a system of parity and fairness for all teams in a league.