as far as play calling you can definetly call plays not to run up a score but i would never tell my kids to pysically lay down in a football game, you could get urself killed. baseball is different. as a coach you can hold ur runners at each base.
by the high school ranks a kids needs to learn failure and success. i laughed my ass off when my uncle told me they won’t keep score at my lil cousins soccer games. ok that fine for tiny kids but you gotta start somewhere. i started playing competetive baseball at 7. the kids pitched, not the parents, we used real baseballs, no facemasked helmets and no trophies for the whole league. its made getting to the playoffs that much better cause you knew it meant garentteed trophies. Winning is fun! no winners or losers= lame… no booing is lame.
by not keeping score you penalize the better team, by keeping fans from booing you penalize the fan for the expense of the team that sucked and the team being booed. this country has become a bunch of emo faggots.