District Tournament Bracket 12/11 ALLB All-Stars Team
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BY-LAW VII - ALL-STAR PROCEDURES
BY-LAWS OF
AMES LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL
BY-LAW VII – ALL-STAR PROCEDURES
Section 1 – All-Star Participation
Playing on an A.L.L.B. all-star team is an honor and a privilege. Only players who are eligible per L.L.B.I. rules and regulations and are willing to commit to participate in the majority of all-star practices and in all the all-star games will be allowed to participate. All all-star players and their parents or guardians will be asked to acknowledge their willingness to participate, their understanding that all-star tournament play is competitive and their understanding that the playing rules are determined by Little League Baseball Incorporated. The tournament playing rules only require that each player play a minimum of three consecutive defensive outs and bat at least one time. Local rules will not apply. Any player that fails to participate in the majority of all-star practices and in all the all-star games will not be eligible to participate in all-stars the following year.
Players are not allowed to preference an all-star team. If selected they will be offered a spot on the all-star team representing the league and/or division in which they played throughout the regular season. They may decline the offer if they so choose. If they decline the offer they are not eligible for all-star play for the remainder of that season.
Section 2 – AAA Division All-Stars
AAA Division – The all-star teams will consist of 13 players, one manager and two coaches. Each team will have three alternates. All-star alternates are never contacted or notified of their status as an alternate until they are needed. The AAA Division will field one 8-9 year old all-star team and one 9-10 year old all-star team.
Section 3 – Major Division All-Stars
Major Division – The all-star teams will consist of 13 players, one manager and two coaches. Each team will have three alternates. All-star alternates are never contacted or notified of their status as an alternate until they are needed. The Major Division will field one 10-11 year old all-star team and one 11-12 year old all-star team.
Section 4 – Junior Division All-Stars
Junior Division – The all-star teams will consist of 13 players, one manager and two coaches. Each team will have three alternates. All-star alternates are never contacted or notified of their status as an alternate until they are needed. The Junior Division will field one 12-13 year old all-star team and one 13-14 year old all-star team.
Section 5 – All-Star Managers and Coach Selection
All-Star Managers and Coaches must meet the criteria specified by L.L.B.I. The opportunity to serve as All-Star Manager or Coach of any division or sub-division which fields an All-Star team is an honor and a privilege. The regular season managers and coaches will individually nominate a manager and a coach or coaches (depending on the division) for each all-star team in their division. The managers and coaches should nominate candidates that they feel did the best job of managing and coaching during the regular season, demonstrates a commitment to the ideals of A.L.L.B. and L.L.B.I. and will represent A.L.L.B. in a positive manner throughout the tournament. The Division Vice President will collect these nominations and prepare a report for the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors that includes the total number of managers and coaches making nominations, the number of nominations each manager or coach received and their recommendation of who should manage and coach the all-star teams in their division. The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors will review the report and make the final decision. The managers and coaches selected must agree to not participate in any other baseball programs for the duration of the all-star tournament games.
Section 6 – All-Star Player Selection Page 2
All-Star players are chosen by a process of nominations of players from their own team and votes of the division Managers and Coaches. The purpose of the player selection process will be to end up with a team of thirteen players (depending on the division) who have had the most outstanding season in that league or division that year.
Voting for All-Star teams is supervised by the Director of All-Stars and/or by the President. The polling of players shall be done by a representative from the Board of Directors who does not have a child playing in the division being polled. The number of all-star candidates to be nominated by each team is determined by dividing the total number of all-star players and alternates in a Division and dividing it by the number of teams in the Division, rounding that answer up to the nearest whole number and then adding one.
Example - The AAA Division consists of 10 teams and has 32 total all-star players and alternates (2x(13+3)). 32 divided by 10 equals 3.2 which rounds up to 4 and 4+1 would equal 5. So in this example each team would nominate 5 players.
Each individual player will be polled by a representative from the Board of Directors to vote for the determined number of nominees who he or she feels is the best player or players from their team and who would represent A.L.L.B. in a positive manner. They should rank their selections from best to worst.
The representatives from the Board of Directors will compile the players’ votes to determine the team’s candidates. This should be done using a system of reverse weighting. If a team is supposed to have 5 candidates, a player would get 5 points for each best player on the team vote he or she received, 4 points for each 2
nd best player on the team vote, 3 points for each 3rd best player on the team vote, 2 points for each 4th best player on the team vote, 1 point for each 5th best player on the team vote and no points for no vote. The points of each player are totaled up and the player with the most points is the team’s top candidate and the player with the second most points is the team’s second candidate, and so on. The representative from the Board of Directors will turn the list of all the teams’ candidates in to the Director of All-Stars.
The Director of All-Stars will summarize the lists for each team in the league and/or sub-division as appropriate. The nominated players and their total votes will be split into two lists. The first list will be players of the upper age limit in that division and players that are in the same grade as those players and have a birthday between May 1
st and July 30th. In all Divisions the last list will be the remaining players. The lists will be sorted in order of points received. From each list, players in the top 9 spots will be automatically placed on the all-star team. The remaining roster and alternate spots will be selected by the managers and coaches. In the event two candidates are tied in ranking by their teammates, the managers and coaches will vote. The candidate receiving the most votes will be the automatic pick.
The nominees on the lists that were below the top 9 are the candidates to fill the remaining roster and alternate spots. They will be selected by the managers and coaches. They are put on a ballot and voted on using ranked voting system (best player on the ballot is ranked one, etc.). If the All-Star team is to be made up of candidates for the entire division, then all managers and coaches present may vote. If the All-Star team is to be made up of candidates from either the American sub-division or National sub-division only, then only the American sub-division or National sub-division managers and coaches present may vote. A reverse weighting system will be used to produce a composite score for each candidate. The candidates will be ranked from highest score to lowest score. Players with the highest scores will be placed on the all-star team until the roster and alternate spots are filled.
In the event, enough selected players decline the offer to play and all alternate players have been contacted and there is still not enough players to field a team, the Division Vice President with approval from the Director of All-Stars, the Player Agent and the President may ask any other eligible player to participate. If this process does not yield enough players for a team, then the team will not be allowed to participate in the all-star tournament.
