The problem it is built around

Two things go wrong in youth football.

Neither comes from anyone acting in bad faith. They are what happens when placement is left to judgment.

The first

The team that plays down

A program concentrates its talent a rung below where it belongs and wins a title against children who are actually that age. Every player is age-eligible and weight-eligible. No rule has been broken. Everyone in the stands can see it.

The second

The team that gets moved

A program declares honestly, pays fees on that declaration, builds a roster around it — and is moved anyway, by a body whose authority is unclear, with no notice, no written standard, and no record of who voted.

Solve only the first and you produce the second with better arithmetic. MTFA is built to prevent both — and neither safeguard asks anyone to cast a vote.

Read how a team is actually placed on the placement page, or which body has authority over what on the people page.