G04 Rankings

Its all up to you now Tango. The Youth National Soccer Ranking site looks like its down forever. I like your rankings but what I liked about that site is you can click on the teams and it showed who they played. Here is the link that says "Good By" and has an explanation why he is shutting it down.
http://youthsoccerrankings.us/
 
Yamadori said:
Its all up to you now Tango. The Youth National Soccer Ranking site looks like its down forever. I like your rankings but what I liked about that site is you can click on the teams and it showed who they played. Here is the link that says "Good By" and has an explanation why he is shutting it down.
http://youthsoccerrankings.us/
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Well, the pressure is on! :)
I can't imagine doing what he did, maintaining rankings for all clubs nation wide. It is tough enough just to do one age group for one region (CAS G04). I have someone else collect the scores for all the G05 games and I just calculate the rankings having sent that person the spreadsheet template to fill out. If anyone wants to collect scores for any other age groups I can send them the spreadsheet template.

As far as clicking on teams and showing who they played, I could do one of two things.

1. Publish the spreadsheet (read only) at google docs and people can search and filter on their own to see who each team has played and what their results are for each individual game.

2. Someone show me how to code the website to expand the teams with all games played like they did on YS rankings site. Since I use the free blogger site I doubt you can do too much that is fancy.

Open to other ideas.
 
Just reflecting on these rankings and how much I enjoyed watching CRL this last season.........

DD is a 2004 player and the CRL season this past year was by far the most competitive league she has been involved in so far. While there were a few outliers, overall the games/teams seemed super competitive. The teams were largely playing at a level that was pushing each other to get better. Many games that I saw were close enough for the winner to say, "Whew, that was close." And the losing team could say, "We almost had that one." There were also quite a few draws.

By way of comparison, the fall SCDSL season did not feel the same.

So, looking at the top ten teams in the rankings and comparing them with the SCDSL and CSL Brackets (after all the games have been completed):

SCDSL Flight 1 East had one top ten team (1 0f 9 teams for 11%).
CSL Gold had two top ten teams (2 of 8 teams for 25%).
SCDSL Flight 1 North had three top ten teams (3 of 10 teams for 30%).
SCDSL Flight 1 South had four top ten teams (4 of 10 teams for 40%).

By way of comparison, California Regional League had 6 of the top ten teams (6 of 12 teams for 50%). So CRL, as a league, had more of the top competition playing against each other. I think this explains why it seemed to me, as a spectator, to be so competitive (in a positive way).

Now, extending this to next year, the DA would capture 8 of the top 10 teams based on the current rankings (8 of 14 teams for 57%). Now I know there will be a ton of movement before next season, but I think it will only serve to concentrate talent into the DA teams. Even without that, the percentage shows that the DA league would have an even higher percentage of the top teams than the leagues we competed in this last year.

I view this as a good thing and part of the reason why I am optimistic about what next year could bring.

I also want to note that I would be saying the same thing about ECNL, if the DA never came along. In fact, ECNL Southwest would have 8 of the top 10 teams competing (8 of 12 teams for 67%).

Regardless, I like the fact that the trend will be to have these teams pushing each other even more than before. I believe concentrating the high level teams into a more focused league will only increase the development of the players involved.
 
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