Club passcards

[FSM]

The Washington Area Girls Soccer League is proposing a change to a club passcard system. Here is the proposal:

Club Pass System – Process that allows a player to play up in age group and/or up in competitive level within the same club. The main objective of the club pass system is to allow coaches to move players freely within their own club, based on player development needs and specific team needs.

Players can only play in the same age group at a higher division of play or in an older age group at the same or higher division of play. Players can only play for one team per day.

Should MAPLE consider doing the same?

Re: Club passcards

The Washington Area Girls Soccer League is proposing a change to a club passcard system. Here is the proposal:

Club Pass System – Process that allows a player to play up in age group and/or up in competitive level within the same club. The main objective of the club pass system is to allow coaches to move players freely within their own club, based on player development needs and specific team needs.

Players can only play in the same age group at a higher division of play or in an older age group at the same or higher division of play. Players can only play for one team per day.

Should MAPLE consider doing the same?

Nothing new here Super Y League/ US Club have done this for quite sometime.

[FSM]

Re: Club passcards

Nothing new here Super Y League/ US Club have done this for quite sometime.

But how many USYSA affiliated leagues do you know are doing the same?

[MASC]

I really like the concept of a club pass, but the USYSA Nation's Cup precludes such once a roster is frozen. If a team challenging for the state cup were to freeze 9 players, then they would have 8 club pass spots on each state cup declared team.

Oops! I forgot about the arbitrary transfer rules associated with the Nation's Cup.

It is wonderful to have one competition totally dictate the structure of youth soccer. While there are few who are involved in winning to Nationals, it is really important to the clubs, leagues and state organizations to claim this national championship. Such a single minded pursuit really has done more harm than good for soccer in this state.

The time frame is all wrong for teams from the Northeast. The whole schedule should be moved out three weeks. The month of June is denied most players (the overwhelming majority of club play finishes Memorial Day Weekend). To reserve this month for the privileged few involved in State Cup and stop league play makes no sense. June is one of the best months to play soccer. We try to play early in the spring when fields are in poor shape with little opportunity to practice and waste the best month of the year!

The seasons should be set to match when soccer can be reasonably played and not forced into an arbitrary window.

From a scheduling and a development standpoint, Super-Y with its longer season, scheduling flexibility, played when conditions are appropriate, club passes and roster flexibility makes more sense than the system we are forced into that follows the school year, state cup and MTOC.

MASC is as guilty as any of the others. It takes time to make changes and get clubs and parents to accept changes. MASC is looking at making changes with input from clubs.

[MASC]

I had posted a reasonable way to handle club passes in leagues that would not allow for abuses that those who only play by the letter of the law as opposed to the spirit would use to gain advantage:

If a player were moved up or down they would have to remain with their "new" team one plus the number of sections (divisions) they moved up or down, e.g. a D1 player moving down to a D2 team would have to remain with the team at least two games. A D1 player moving down to a D team would have to remain with the D team for three weeks. Similarly for moving up.

Such would discourage a D1 team that had locked up a spot in D1 from moving a large number of players to a D team the last one or two weeks of play and elevating the spot won by the D team.

Given the meritocracy of MAPLE, a club pass would be very difficult to implement.

MASC not being a meritocracy, rather a developmental league, does not freeze rosters until the last week of play and players can move as appropriate. There are some administrative issues and the methodology needs some refinement.

Curious to know how often the passcard is actually used in practice. For example, with the MPS teams are players frequently moved up and down or is this a fairly rare occurrence?

Curious to know how often the passcard is actually used in practice. For example, with the MPS teams are players frequently moved up and down or is this a fairly rare occurrence?

happens often.