Super teams

Originally posted by mbmg3282 Fritz (or anyone else for that matter), One problem I see with our current scoring is that it encourages smaller clubs to feel like they need to combine together with others to be competitive. The superclubs are much larger in size (4x on average). I believe that superclubs are a good thing. I have enjoyed swimming with Arizona Masters and now am a member of Kentucky Masters. However, I have also been a part of a smaller team and enjoyed that experience. Our system of small, medium and large didn't work for a number of reasons. I feel Jerry's suggestion of 7 divisions would be even more problematic. What would be a good way to having scoring at nationals that doesn't encourage club to feel like that need to be part of a suerclub to be competitive? A system that allows the superclub to have fun, but also the independent teams to have fun? I'll go back to something I said earlier. What's the problem we are trying to solve? What's our objective?

Originally posted by mbmg3282 Fritz (or anyone else for that matter), One problem I see with our current scoring is that it encourages smaller clubs to feel like they need to combine together with others to be competitive. The superclubs are much larger in size (4x on average). I believe that superclubs are a good thing. I have enjoyed swimming with Arizona Masters and now am a member of Kentucky Masters. However, I have also been a part of a smaller team and enjoyed that experience. Our system of small, medium and large didn't work for a number of reasons. I feel Jerry's suggestion of 7 divisions would be even more problematic. What would be a good way to having scoring at nationals that doesn't encourage club to feel like that need to be part of a suerclub to be competitive? A system that allows the superclub to have fun, but also the independent teams to have fun? I'll go back to something I said earlier. What's the problem we are trying to solve? What's our objective?