2024/07/23 Journal, Entry 2
Registrations have been filling out our roster. We got several returning players back, pushing our retention to 81%. Historically, area-wide retention (not counting age-outs) hovers around 75% per team. This year, our area was hit really hard with defections. The league retention will come in around 68%. Still, over the three year span, it has nevertheless averaged around 75%.

In our area, we give free registration to new players. This was done to rebuild numbers after the idiotically destructive COVID response. Our highest registration ever was 332 players back in 2009. It dropped to an all time low of 97 in 2020. It has since rebounded into the 160s. We expect to land around 70 new players this year. If we can attract 70 new players each subsequent season, maintain 75% retention, and the kids enter at the historical pattern of grade distribution, we expect to stabilize at about 160 players each year and remain solvent.

Enrollment Projections: