Boys District Tournament & Competitive Jimmy Fund Teams

(Major, AAA & AA League Divisions)

Windham Baseball & Softball League (WBSL) sanctions several post-season teams which play in various tournaments for different age groups. Typically, these teams include Boys District teams U12 (11 & 12 year olds from the Majors) & U11 (11-9 year olds from Majors and, as necessary, AAA), and a Boys Competitive Jimmy Fund team U10 (10-9 year olds from AAA and, as necessary, AA).

Tournament selections (Players and Managers) will be coordinated by the respective Division Directors as follows:

Eligibility

All players eligible for post-season District/Competitive Jimmy Fund team selection are as follows:

U12 – (Players from Majors teams)

U11 – (Players 11 and under from Majors and, as necessary, AAA)

U10 Competitive Jimmy Fund – (Players 10 and under from AAA and, as necessary, AA)

Player Selection Process

The Division Directors will setup a meeting for selection of the U12 & U11 District Teams & U10 Competitive Jimmy Fund Team and invite the regular season Managers, Player Agent, and WBSL President to participate. The order of the selection process will be 1st - U12, 2nd – U11, 3rd – U10Competitive Jimmy Fund.

Prior to voting, each Manager will meet with his/her coaching staff and force rank their players 1 – X. A ranking of 1 would represent the Manager’s most deserving candidate. These rankings are only intended to provide insight into each Manager’s relative opinion of their nominees. Managers can use this information to help in making informed voting decisions for the complete roster. The goal is to have the most deserving players be part of the District/Competitive Jimmy Fund teams.

Round 1:Blindly, the Managers vote for 6 of alleligible Players. It takesa unanimousvote to make the District/Competitive Jimmy Fund team in the first round.

Round 2:The Managers will vote for a number of Players equal to the number of spots remaining after Round 1. If no Player remaining receives a unanimous vote, then those receiving 50% or more of the vote would advance to Round 3. Those receiving less than 50% of the vote would no longer be eligible.

Round 3:Managers will vote for a number of Players equal to the number of spots remaining from Rounds 1 & 2. If no Player remaining receives a unanimous vote, then those receiving 50% or more of the vote will be added to the team. If those additions exceed the roster limit discussion will be had to determine which players are added to the team and which players are designated alternates.

The Roster size for the Tournament All Star team is between 12 – 14 players and will be decided by the Division Director and Managersprior to the start of the selection process.

Alternates will be named as potential replacements in the event a selected Player cannot participate for any reason. These alternates (and the order that they will replace Players from the original roster) will be determined by the Player with the most votes from the final round of voting who was not selected to the District/Competitive Jimmy Fund team. The District/Competitive Jimmy Fund Team Manager will decide who the alternates will be in the event of a tie (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.).

Manager Selection Process

After the players have been selected for the specific tournament team, all Division Managers will cast votes for the respective District/Competitive Jimmy Fund Team Manager. All Managers and Coaches who participated in that level of play during the regular season are eligible to be nominated for managing a tournament team.

The Manager selection decision will be made based upon a simple majority. In the event of a tie, another round of voting will be held with selections limited to the managers who finished in the tie. If a tie still exists after this 2nd round of voting, then the respective Division Director will cast the deciding vote.

Voting Process

All voting associated with the above selection process (Players and Managers) will be through the use of silent ballots.

Team Selection & Manager/Staff Approval & Communication

Selections are not complete, and will not be announced, until the following actions are completed:

The District Team Manager must contact the parents of the selected Players to confirm their ability to make the level of commitment required to participate on the District/Competitive Jimmy Fundteam. Parents must be made to understand that missing practices and/or games due to vacations planned during the tournament season is unfair to Players who did not make the team and, as a result, may force the Division Director, or Team Manager to name an alternate to the team in their child’s place. During this discussion, the parents must also be advised that the philosophy of playing time at this level is different from the regular season, and that this philosophy may impact the playing time of their child on the District/Competitive Jimmy Fundteam.

If after these discussions the parents decide that their child will not be able to participate on the District/Competitive Jimmy Fundteam, the respective Division Director will then contact the parents of the 1st alternate as described above, the 2nd alternate, etc.

The District/Competitive Jimmy Fund Manager may choose his or her own Assistant Coaches from the Managers and Coaches who participated in their respective Division (Majors, AAA, etc.) that season. The respective Division Director must be notified and approve of these choices.

The respective Division Director must approve the selection results (Player, Manager and Assistant Coaches) and report these results to the President for final approval.

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Approved by WBSL Board, May 2009