Awesome with you learning pitching to help sustain your community's program. That is my motivation, too.
Interesting. I figured we were about average. All three grades make up our team. There are 5 other teams in our half of the district--two of which are roughly an hour drive--so we always do a 5 inning V and 3 inning JV, and each school gets a home date. That's 10 of our V games already, then we found a few teams we felt we could compete with and added those, which made 8 more dates...so I guess it was actually 18 games. And we plan expecting rainouts. I think we had 4 or 5.Man, I'm not sure if it would be fun or torture to have 16 MS games. DD2's school plays 5 (five!) games this year plus a quick round-robin tournament. 8 schools in the district, 2 can't field an 8th grade team . 1 of the 5 is a good program, usually a good game, 4 of those 5 games were/will be total stinkers.
DD played 13..I would categorize it as torture..Man, I'm not sure if it would be fun or torture to have 16 MS games. DD2's school plays 5 (five!) games this year plus a quick round-robin tournament. 8 schools in the district, 2 can't field an 8th grade team . 1 of the 5 is a good program, usually a good game, 4 of those 5 games were/will be total stinkers.
I think as far as scheduling, we can either do whatever we want, or they just don't pay attention.Based on other posts here, I think your schedule is more average than our pitiful schedule.
HS state limit is 20 game regular season, but tournaments are allowed, so with 2 of those and playoffs, we were at 33 games. Furthest drive was about an hour. Last year we made a 3 hour drive for one game, this year they came to us.
For HS, the sections are aligned somewhat geographically within the size category (6A in our case), but are not aligned by school district, since within the district they are all different sizes. We only ever play one of the 4 other schools in the district.