Green Hornets Boys' Basketball Team Creation Methodology

Sample Green Hornets Boys' Basketball Team Creation Methodology

Identify your top X scores, (probably anyone who scores 15 or above), where X is the number of teams that you will have in the league. These are your "stars" (1 star per team).
Identify your X coaches and X assistant coaches' kids (2 players per team).
Identify your big men, i.e., your tallest 36 players (2 players per team).
Identify your lowest 36 scores (2 players per team).
Place coaches and assistant coaches kid on teams first.
Place one "star" per team second (some might also be the child of a coach, in which case you would not place a second "star" on the team).
Place two big men on each team next (some might be the child of a coach and a star). If a team has a big man who also graded out as a star, try to match him with a lower scoring big man so no team ends up with two really good big men (e.g., if a big man graded out as an 18, he should be matched him with a big man who scored near 4). Likewise, if one team has an average big man with a score if 11, match him with another big man who had a score of 11 or something close to it. As a result each team would end up with 22 points from big men.
Next look at specific requests. Usually you can honor most of these, though you may not want to do this in the case of a kid who didn't show up for evaluations, especially if a coach was asking for him to be placed on his team.
Next split up the good (scores of 12-14) and average players (scores of 8-11) and lower scoring players (4-7) with an eye towards specific requests and an eye towards getting each team one or two ball handlers. In theory each team should also have two lesser scoring players, two or so good players, and two or so average players. It's also important to note that each team should end up with the same number of lower scoring players (it will probably work out to two per team).
You may want to use a different scoring scale for the younger of the kids in a league where the league has two or more age groups. Unless the kid is a clear star, an excellent score would be 4.5 per station for the younger of the ages, as opposed to 5 for the older age, etc.
Try to split up teams so they are half the younger age group and half the older age group.
Each team will probably end up with about 100 points worth of players if there are 10 players per team and they are graded 1 through 5 at each of the four stations, and those numbers are then added together for each player and for each team for a team composite score.
Juggle players, as necessary, to get each team's composite score as close to 100 points as possible. There is a pretty big difference in talent level from a team that has a composite score of 98 versus a team that has a composite score of 106.
Last updated November 24, 2003.

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