Should be 4 Divs only per age group.

1 Club per div.

Rest to Youth League.

Have a great time playing with yourself.

So if I read the competition notes pasted below, i believe you are in a pro/rel for summer and are played in 5 week phases which should see it changed up during the season I would have thought Competition Notes
Competitions that use promotion/relegation are divided into groups and scheduled in 5 week phases. After each phase, the top 2 teams in each group are promoted to the higher group (if there is one) and the bottom two teams are demoted to the lower group (if there is one).

The schedule for the next phase will become available after the previous phase has been completed.

Please ensure you are aware of the by-laws relating to the movement of players between teams.

The whole North/South thing sucks. Work on your game and play Div 1 and you don't have to worry about it though...

Im from Country Victoria so im sorry that I dont get this yl thing in SA

is it not easier to have 2div with a limit of 1 yl per club per gender.

is that not easier? makes the competition alot better and the fight for spots is also on.

I do suppose we have alot of club/assassinations in Melbounre/Victoria so its alot easier but just a thought

^^Apparently they doing the North/South thing because people don't like travelling on Tuesday nights. But honestly if you're in YL you should have a license/car. If you don't have a licence/car is it really that hard just to carpool with some team mates???
The promotion/relegation system could work out ok but in the end it's probably just going to be North/Sturt playing each other every week in the top pools and teams like Magic/Centrals/Woodville playing each other weekly in the bottom pools.

my bad Sturt/North wouldn't play each other so it'd be North and somebody else playing each other while in South leage it'd be Sturt/Forestville playing each other each week.

Why is YL other than Div 1 treated as an after thought.

Why is there not more than 2 Divs in Summer season.

Why did BSA back away from fully timed games for Div 1 & 2 which they announced initially

Why is Div 2 treated worse than Div 2 juniors who do not have pro/rel and enjoy NOT being in North South pools and enjoy pitting their skills against all teams generally in an equal number of games

Why do 8 out of 10 teams make finals in winter

Why pay the upcoming increase in game fees when I can play fully timed senior games

In a year or two's time I see the YL decline if it is not already doing so. This will end up being another red mark against BSA and an I'll thought out competition which when announced was exciting but has failed to deliver for most participants

I'll should be ill

Youth league was a great idea in theory but BSAed in practice.

Season starts in 2 weeks and I have looked at the draw and hard to get excited about playing again

I thought U 20's was better but nevertheless IF it is better it doesn't mean it is good.

Why is this so hard to fix?

I have just had another look at the draw and I notice that in some junior phases and groups they have 6 teams and not 5 teams and so avoiding byes.

When looking at the youth league we have 4 North and 4 South groups of 5 teams which means that each week we have 8 teams not playing. In fact when looking at the North pool they have two Forestville teams to make up the numbers.

Why does each North South pool require the same number of groups. The logic of the groups is slightly flawed anyway so why move a "south" designated team to a "north" pool.

If you left to two forestville teams in the south pool you would have 3 groups of 6 teams in the North pool and so no byes and in the South group 2 groups of 6 teams and 2 groups of 5 teams which results in only two teams not playing each week.

We end up having 6 more teams playing each week and perhaps some slightlier happier players as they may have more variety in the teams they play.

Don't we want people playing basketball rather than not!!

Hogwash, Not a bad idea but I personally want to play all the good teams from the other pool during the winter season. Perhaps Div 2 should be as per juniors and Div 3 and below can operate in North South pools

the phasing is not so bad, it's the north/south division that sucks. if you look at last season the north pools were generally weaker and because they mainly played amongst themselves there were teams making finals that wouldn't have if they had to play all the team in their division evenly. i know a lot of the teams would prefer to ditch the north/south divisions and do the travel

Travel is a genuine issue in basketball in SA. They have tried to do something about that which is good. Having a div 1 only in U23s and seniors one to whatever might be the answer. Realistically div 1 should be the carrot and really is div 3 and below district standard?

So what is different between Div 2 Juniors and Seniors v Div 2 YL?

Maybe div 3 and below is ok but surely each competition should have the same rules regarding North South pools for Juniors YL and Seniors.

To me this is sending a very clear message to YL other than Div 1 - "Go look somewhere else to play!"

Wait - there's more! It seems there is a chance that game fees for YL Div 2 and below will be increased to the same level as Div 1. For that I don't get fully timed games and I don't get to play in a competition which is balanced with all clubs participating. Someone at BSA must think that because I play Div 2 not only can I not play basketball but I am stupid too!!