JCYSL requires every coach to evaluate his/her players so that the Region can more effectively organize balanced teams within each age division for the next season. Accurate player evaluations are essential to the process of forming balanced teams. It is important that you be impartial, objective, and accurate. Please take your time and give this evaluation the consideration it requires.

For each child on your roster determine a rating for each skill area based on a player’s ability compared to his/her peers WITHIN YOUR DIVISION. Please do not base any rating on a player’s performance on your own team. Also, keep in mind that it is unlikely that ALL of your players will be rated the same. If you have players that have dropped throughout either season, please rate them based upon the time that they played but please make a notation about when they stopped playing. If you do not feel that you saw them enough to rate them, please just make a note. PLEASE REMEMBER TO EVALUATE FALL ONLY PLAYERS ALSO.

Please consider only a player’s effectiveness – as compared to his/her peers – when making your evaluation. You will rate each player on basic skills based on a scale of 0 (very low) to 5 (perfect) Rating. Please resist the temptation to give high scores to make the kids feel good. The players are NEVER given their ratings so there is no reason to be generous or overly critical. Ratings that are too high or too low actually hinder the team balancing process. Remember, good objective player ratings are required to have balanced teams and balanced teams are more fun for everyone!