Quote:

There's another factor someone privately e-mailed me about that I offer for your consideration. I was told that the typical CUFC team, particularly the Elite teams, were much larger in terms of roster size than either the typical CSC or NECSA team. So if you take the scenario that you've got 18+ players on an elite team at CUFC where you had 15 or so players on a team at CSC, then denying the Challenge team those "bottom" 3 players would probably hurt the Challenge team a lot.



As far as I can tell, the U18 Girls Elite is the only team that has taken advantage of the SCYSA rule that allows more than 18 on the roster. I don't have the official numbers, but, aside from U18G, my observation is that the average roster size is just on the low side of 17. So I would say this is about 2 more than the average NECSA & CSC team. I don't call that being "much larger" but 2 players can make a difference.