How Many Formations Do Successful Youth Football Teams Really Have?
Many youth football coaches are looking for help in determining the right number of offensive formations for their youth football teams. The optimum number all depends on the age and experience level of your specific team. Many coaches feel the more formations they have, the more complex and difficult it will be for the defense to stop the offense. I’m not sure I buy into that train of thought and at some point there is a diminishing returns point as you spend inordinate amounts of time working on formationing, you confuse the kids and lose practice time elsewhere. Many times in the leagues my teams have played in, the teams with the most formations are the teams with the lowest offensive scoring output. If a formation that is different from your base formation gives your team an advantage, it may make sense to have an additional formation of two. But if you add formations in just so you can say you are running additional formations, that makes little sense to me. Formation advantages
