Athletic1 wrote:Because coaches with strong teams who REALLY know what they are doing DP/Flex with the EP on Pool Play Saturdays to maximize playing time.
I manage a top 16u team and we don’t go to 9 players until the semifinals Sunday.
You want to win saturday games because you want to play top bracket on sunday. Yes!?
Hence apply strategy knowing that getting to the Top Bracket games on Sunday are going to be tougher because those are the winning teams. Yes!?
To the conversation about if saturday pool games matter.
Look at it this way, if you don't care about winning your Saturday pool play games then you don't mind playing in basically the losers bracket. Out of all teams. The best you can do is finish in the lower half. Atleast silver bracket is top half.
Most teams will never have the opportunity to play the top teams on sundays with this type of tournament.
Saturday pool means a great deal to them to beat a top team on Saturday!
Just sayin'