Tournament Team Coach Selection

Your all-star team is made up of your best players. Why shouldn't that team be managed by your best coach? All your coaches may meet your minimum standard for coaching in your regular season league, but that doesn't mean they are all equal. Winning a league championship doesn't automatically qualify a coach as "best coach" either. Many coaches are great at one level of play but have a difficult time transitioning to a higher one. Another problem is that some regular season coaches of limited ability are blessed with great talent. In my opinion, the policy of letting the regular season champion coach the all-stars is a simple means of avoiding controversy.

Why not put the decision up to a board vote? If the board believes your league champ to be the best, they'll vote him in.

A second disadvantage to making your league champ manager the all-star manager is that it doesn't give him much time to plan. Our league has already selected it's all-star manager. He now has 7 months to make travel arrangements, find sponsors, getting time off from work, and fine tune is coaching techniques.

Steve Martin Alconbury Little League