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Due to the birth year age group change previous youth soccer rankings are no longer any good. I am attempting to build a realistic ranking model that eventually tournaments can use to help seed teams. The methodology uses the excel solver and a "best fit" algorithm that takes as input scores from all tournaments and league play to then come up with a "strength" number for each team. The difference in strength numbers tells you how many more goals better one team is than another. Due to small sample sizes early in the season there will be a few strange rankings. As more games are played things will look more normal. Teams improve their ranking by winning by more than the expected goal differential or losing by less than the expected differential (basically doing better than expected). Teams move down in the rankings by doing the opposite. I have done this for the G04 rankings and I now have a volunteer who is keeping track of all the G05 scores so I can post rankings for this age group too. We have tried to minimize mistakes (we are hand inputting scores from tournament websites) which is hard to do due to teams being listed with slightly different names in each tournament. I will only list the top 200 teams. The SRS column tells how strong your team is compared to other teams. Only games played between Cal South teams are considered. In order to include Cal North or games/teams from other regions you would need to include all teams from those regions to make rankings accurate and that is not a task I am will to take on. Game recorded begin May 7th and include the CRL Play-In games.
Here is the link:
http://coachingkidssoccer.blogspot.com/2016/08/cas-g05-youth-soccer-rankings-1.html
Here is the link:
http://coachingkidssoccer.blogspot.com/2016/08/cas-g05-youth-soccer-rankings-1.html