Team Rosters


Team rosters will be posted a few days before games begin on August 2nd, & we will update folks once those are ready. Information on how we will be making teams is also provided below.


How We Make Teams

Organizers in the kickball take an active role in making teams. The reason for this is twofold: First, without assistance, captains often cannot get enough players for a full team, & we also often have many individuals who join us looking for teams. And secondly, we want to ensure parity between teams in terms of skill levels, availability, gender diversity, & other factors. In other words, while we do want people to play with their friends, we also want to have fair games.

When making teams, the following factors are given weight, in approximate order of priority:

1) Preferences for Teammates: We usually allow players to play with at least one, if not more/all, of the teammates they request to play with. However, especially if there is a large number of people wanting to play together, we may split up a larger group to even out skill levels or numbers.

2) Gender Diversity: We try to put approximately the same number of girls on each team.

3) Skill Levels: We try to balance out skilled and beginner players, based on how players rate their proficiency in registrations. Of course, skill levels on paper do not always reflect a team's actual ability. However, our leagues tend to have more closely matched teams than some other places.

4) Seasonal Availability: We try to balance out regulars and occasionally/ often unavailable players.

5) Spread of Referees & Captains: We try to spread out players who volunteer to be refs or captains.

Obviously, the variety of considerations which needed to be balanced means teams will never exactly be "even." Over the course of a season, some teams will do really well or have good attendance, while others may struggle. In our experience though, most individual games are close in this league. Hence, even if teams will never be 100% fair, we do our best to even things out!