Regular Season Team Creation

• Baseball
  • Majors
    • All league age 12 year olds and 6th graders unless there is a skill/safety risk as determined by the Player Agent and/or parents/guardians
    • Any further roster spots to be prioritized by remaining players in highest grade order (e.g., 5th grade has priority followed by 4th grade)
    • If team roster limit as determined by the team manager(s) is met with only some of the remaining players for a given grade, skill shall be used to determine priority and that grade shall be split between majors and AAA
    • If more than 1 team, teams shall be formed by each team’s manager with support from the Player Agent and other Board members as needed with the goal of having balanced teams

• AAA
  • Priority given to remaining players in highest grade order (e.g., 5th grade has priority followed by 4th grade, 3rd grade, etc.) unless there is a skill/safety risk as determined by the Player Agent and/or parents/guardians
    • Exception to this rule is if there is a player that would be a safety risk to others if placed in a lower division as determined by the Player Agent (e.g., high batted ball velocity)
  • If team roster limit as determined by the team manager(s) is met with only some of the remaining players for a given grade, skill shall be used to determine priority and that grade shall be split between AAA and AA

  • If more than 1 team, teams shall be formed by each team’s manager with support from the Player Agent and other Board members as needed with the goal of having balanced teams

• AA
  • 3rd & 2nd graders that do not have a roster spot in AAA along with eligible 1st graders
  • For 1st graders to be eligible for AA, they must have played A previously

  • If more than 1 team, teams shall be formed by each team’s manager along with the Player Agent and other Board members as needed

• A
  • Players in K or 1st graders who have not played Little League previously
  • K players must have already played 1 year of spring t-ball
  • If more than 1 team, teams shall be formed by each team’s manager along with the Player Agent and other Board members as needed

• Softball
  • Majors
    • A majors team may not be formed if there are not enough players of appropriate skill/age available
    • If more than 1 team, teams shall be formed by each team’s manager with support from the Player Agent and other Board members as needed with the goal of having balanced teams
    • Priority given based on grade order (high to low) unless there is a skill/safety risk as determined by the Player Agent and/or parents/guardians
    • If team roster limit as determined by the team manager(s) is met with only some of the remaining players for a given grade, skill shall be used to determine priority and that grade shall be split between majors and minors
  • Minors
    • Players above 2nd grade that do not have a majors roster spot
      • Exception available for 2nd graders to be pulled up to minors if additional players are needed with priority based on skill
    • If more than 1 team, teams shall be formed by each team’s manager with support from the Player Agent and other Board members as needed with the goal of having balanced teams
  • Coach Pitch
    • 2nd & 1st graders that do not have a roster spot in Minors along with eligible K players
    • K players must have already played 1 year of spring t-ball
    • If more than 1 team, teams shall be formed by each team’s manager along with the Player Agent and other Board members as needed
• Skill Determination
  • Skill, as an input into team creation, is determined by reviewing the manager’s end of season evaluation if the player played with OSLL in the prior year along with the current season’s skills day evaluation from those managers/coaches observing the players
  • If a player does not have an end of season evaluation and/or the player did not attend the skills day evaluation, prior experience/observations from OSLL managers/coaches may be used as input
  • Players with evaluation data and/or prior experience/observations from OSLL managers/coaches shall have priority over players with no evaluation data and no experience/observations from OSLL coaches/managers