Agreed based on the limited recent games, they might be. But this team has been around for a while. It’s the same team as Pateadores SC NB…in the unranked section. I suspect a bad actor getting rid of old data to game the system.
Perhaps there should be a stricter criteria for top 50 teams.
You can't help yourself, can you? There is almost certainly no bad actor, there is just apathy from anyone looking at their own team data in terms of merging them. Is it healthy to always think there is a conspiracy/nefarious threat behind everything that you don't like or understand?
Pateadores is always going to be clunky with any aggregator software like this. There are a bunch of similarly named, but different, clubs - and they all register their team names into leagues/tournaments with various permutations, making it non-trivial to bring teams together that are probably the same (but named slightly differently). Other clubs that have this issue pretty regularly because of the number of different teams, number of affiliates, and frequently changed team names include Total, Strikers, Legends, Albion, City SC, Slammers, and probably a few more. For just the Pateadores in the main listed club "Pateadores SC", they show data for 75 different girls teams and 115 different boys teams from 2016 through 2008. And there are 7 club listings, including that one main one, in just CA (Pateadores HB, Pateadores IER, Pateadores IRV, Pateadores Long Beach, Pateadores Newport Costa Mesa, Pateadores Santa Clarita Valley, and the main Pateadores SC). If someone affiliated with the club cared about getting this data shown correctly, they'd need to stay on top of how these potentially hundreds of teams are registered in their various tournaments/leagues/events, name them consistently, and bring them together as needed. But most certainly don't see this as a priority, so it comes down to any interested parents to do it. In most cases - it works pretty well, as it only takes a singled interested party to keep things clean, but for clubs like this it can get large enough and complicated enough that team data isn't as collated as one may want.
In this case, if you are convinced that these two teams are identical, and that new data should be added to the other team - all it takes is to add it and hit save. If you're right, it's likely that you just helped make the data more accurate. If you're wrong, someone might potentially change it back or send a note to support ("WTF - who messed with my team!"). And if it turns out to be inaccurate, it is just as easy to remove the data afterwards - nothing is permanent.
Here are the two teams:
Here's how to add/merge that data:
Here's the resulting team, with all data sources in one:
Now it looks like the team has done amazingly well, almost suspiciously well, in the Surf cup - showing 3 green overperforms. It might be that the same team just did well, or the team entities might really not be the same, and a different roster is now cleaning up in tournaments.
