Politics/favoritism in youth sports

What in the holy frick are you talking about? Favoritism happens in everything and where does politics come into play here?

Politics as in goes to the same church lives in the same neighborhood, prominent parents, etc.

Your kid is fastest by far on the football team. Ever sees the field.

I have coached twenty seasons of high school sports. I see a lot of favoritism in daddy ball youth sport programs, but not very much at all in high school.

I had plenty of parents complain about favoritism but those were the parents of the weaker players.

Baseball is the worst

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99.9% of the time I have seen in middle school and up. 

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Ive seen well to do parents, socially close parents kids get the most action by far.
Team gets a group of friends together to form a team and needs a few more kids to make that team a possibility. Extra kids get shafted.