Can anyone please help me out and explain GIRL LOGIC, or perhaps the more developed form: WIFE LOGIC?
I ask this in all sincerity as I was watching my wife coach the girl's volleyball team at our elementary school yesterday and some of the girls didn't get much play time. This is in a league of 10-11 years olds and they are actually mandated by rules to substitute.
So here is how it goes, a team has 6 players on the court. My wife is coaching 11 total girls. So she has almost 2 complete teams. For the 1st game in a best 2 out of 3 series, they have a mandated substitution at the 4 minute point. So she starts with 6 girls, and at 4 mintues she subs in the 5 remaining, leaving the "best" player to play the full 8 minutes or to 15 points. That works, each girl gets to play roughly 1/2 the game, except the 1 who gets the whole game.
For game 2, they do the same thing but there is no mandated substitution. Ditto game 3.
Sometimes the games only last 5 minutes! Others last 10 to 15.
So what happens is that in actual play, some of the girls may only play 4 minutes, especially if they are up against a much better team and only 2 games are played and both are 'wipe out' type games. This leads to little girls who cry.
So being a logisitcal type of guy, I suggest something different. I suggest they follow their gameplan for game 1.
But for game 2, I suggest that they play 2.5 minutes and call a time out. At the time out, they take out their 3 worst players and leave in 3 good players. The 3 who go in should be the 3 remaining good players giving them 6 good players on the court (which hopefully will extend the game in their favor). The 6 good players play for 3 minutes and then they call time out again. For the last 2.5 minutes they pull out the original 3 players that started the game and put in 3 of the lesser quality players.
My logic is all the poor quality players play 1/3 of the game. All the good quality players play 2/3 of the game. The chances of them winning increase because for 1/3 of the game they have all 6 of their top players on the court.
For game 3, if there is going to be a game 3, then they can either go back to their game 1 substitution plan only reversed with the ending girls from game 1 starting in game 3, and the starting girls from game 1 ending game 3.
Seems to simple.
The part that scares me is that the season is already 1/2 over and not one of the coaches (there are 3, my wife being head coach) and not one of the other involved parents could figure out any solution to playing the girls.
So why can't girls think the way we do? When was the last time you saw a guy cry in a sporting event that didn't ivolve several broken bones?
I ask this in all sincerity as I was watching my wife coach the girl's volleyball team at our elementary school yesterday and some of the girls didn't get much play time. This is in a league of 10-11 years olds and they are actually mandated by rules to substitute.
So here is how it goes, a team has 6 players on the court. My wife is coaching 11 total girls. So she has almost 2 complete teams. For the 1st game in a best 2 out of 3 series, they have a mandated substitution at the 4 minute point. So she starts with 6 girls, and at 4 mintues she subs in the 5 remaining, leaving the "best" player to play the full 8 minutes or to 15 points. That works, each girl gets to play roughly 1/2 the game, except the 1 who gets the whole game.
For game 2, they do the same thing but there is no mandated substitution. Ditto game 3.
Sometimes the games only last 5 minutes! Others last 10 to 15.
So what happens is that in actual play, some of the girls may only play 4 minutes, especially if they are up against a much better team and only 2 games are played and both are 'wipe out' type games. This leads to little girls who cry.
So being a logisitcal type of guy, I suggest something different. I suggest they follow their gameplan for game 1.
But for game 2, I suggest that they play 2.5 minutes and call a time out. At the time out, they take out their 3 worst players and leave in 3 good players. The 3 who go in should be the 3 remaining good players giving them 6 good players on the court (which hopefully will extend the game in their favor). The 6 good players play for 3 minutes and then they call time out again. For the last 2.5 minutes they pull out the original 3 players that started the game and put in 3 of the lesser quality players.
My logic is all the poor quality players play 1/3 of the game. All the good quality players play 2/3 of the game. The chances of them winning increase because for 1/3 of the game they have all 6 of their top players on the court.
For game 3, if there is going to be a game 3, then they can either go back to their game 1 substitution plan only reversed with the ending girls from game 1 starting in game 3, and the starting girls from game 1 ending game 3.
Seems to simple.
The part that scares me is that the season is already 1/2 over and not one of the coaches (there are 3, my wife being head coach) and not one of the other involved parents could figure out any solution to playing the girls.
So why can't girls think the way we do? When was the last time you saw a guy cry in a sporting event that didn't ivolve several broken bones?
I totally agree!!! 