No problem. Prepping your team is a little easier. You obviously do the fielding and bullpen work you'd always do. You're doing it with bettwe players. You have dads scout opponents for weaknesses to zones and off speed. Or in some cases you have teams that just cant hit above 60MPH and if you have a kid who throws 65, that's all you do.
Anyway. Hitting? Most LL seasons are full of guys who throw 50-60mph from 46 ft. Thats not bad and if you and i went and caught that we'd be like wow. It feels like about 80-90 that close. So you start AS paractice about a week or 10 days before the tourney and you start with coaches throwing, and some live kid pitching. That's one station when you hit. Another is you have guys on the machine at 60. Every day you go up 1 mph so by the time the tournament starts your kids are hitting 70. They don't notice 1 MPH a day. They adjust after 3-4 pitches. That becomes the new normal.
About 3-4 days before the tournament the brackets come out and if you're playing a power in the first couple rounds you then bring in 14-15 year olds who play and pitch frosh or soph baseball at their school. And they pitch to your kids. And they don't let up.
So your kids before you face a top guy are facing 15 year olds. Breaking pitches. And 70 or 70+. It's why these games can be so low scoring. Thats like hitting 100mph and these guys are 12. You hope to get a walk, slap a ball, get an error and catch a bomb on the barrell.
if you're not facing a power in the first couple rounds I think you bring in the HS kids later. I forget now. Because you don't want your kids really far in front of everything either. Tournament starts around 6/19 to 6/25 in most places. I have spent many a 7/4 prepping for a championship game underneath a fireworks show with a sighing wife showing her disapproval. Next round is really fast. Like 7/11 and for us it was only 4-6 teams. After that it narrows.
Our District had 16 teams and we were the next smallest league. It was nearly impossible for us to do anything. I won two district titles and everyone thought I was a miracle worker. Our league at all levels had won I think 2-3 games prior to our time. I won two championship games, lost one, and finished 3rd in one. So I don't know how many wins that was, but probably about 20-25. Like 5-6 each year depending on whether you came from winner or losers bracket. Sectional you can win with I think 3 wins. And you get more rest. I sucked in sectionals. Never won a game.
They're all-star teams. The best players in their league.