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^ Excellent follow-up post.

You are right, and I honestly did not mean to try and under value the question that was posed. I completely support wanting to brag (or better yet, see someone else brag) about our children, but I had to weigh in on the value of wins and losses for any other level than Varsity when it comes to High School Sports.

When we are talking about Frosh and JV sports, the playing field is not equal. We only can compare talent levels at the Varsity when so many of our underclassmen are playing at the Highest level.

I come from a 6A school with three levels for every boys sport. For baseball, we have 100 athletes tryout every year, thus we are cutting more than half that number. We do let 8th graders tryout out, and keep no more than a handful. Even that said, we have Frosh that start with our JV and sometimes even at the varsity level every year. Our Frosh and JV teams suffer every year because we are putting the best athletes where they can compete at their best.

Someone else said it better than I earlier, but my situation is even rarer than schools smaller than 6A size. Most schools are filling their JV teams with 7,8th and Freshmen. How can you then say that a JV team filled with Sophomores and even in rare cases some Jr's getting innings, is a good team because they are beating teams that don't have mature enough athletes to compete at that level. We return 8 juniors on our baseball team that were starters or played key innings. EIGHT - that's a lot for a team that lost 1-0 in the Regional finals. Our JV team was no better than .500 last year. Had those eight played JV as sophomores last year, I'd venture to say that they may have played .900 ball.

So, I'm not discounting the question, just stating that answering that question for any sport cannot be based on wins/losses.

I hope the originator of this thread does not take offense, but maybe has a better understanding of most on here's point.