I'm sure this has been brought up before but how can teams in the bthl that have more second year players than first play in an A division. Two teams in squirt A of the bthl that should be in squirtAA because their assoc. are medium size areas.

If you go to the BTHL website, and click on the rules portion and then click on "team placement chart", you will see that "medium" organizations can have up to (12) 2nd year players on their roster. This is new for the 2005/06 season. Hope this helps.

To your point, this is why we continue to lose teams and the competition suffers. CSHL has a pre-season shedule, then places the teams at the appropriate level, regardless of 'organizational size'. May not be perfect, but at least it is not an arbitray measure of teams.

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Originally posted by TwoSkaters:
To your point, this is why we continue to lose teams and the competition suffers. CSHL has a pre-season shedule, then places the teams at the appropriate level, regardless of 'organizational size'. May not be perfect, but at least it is not an arbitray measure of teams.

Great point and clearly the best way to approach putting teams at the appropriate level. I know one team that is going to have to play at an AA level this year because of the size of the organization, that will probably lose the bulk of their games probably by huge scores because they don't have hardly any AA level players on the team. If the skill level isn't there then why the 'organization size' rule?