Add in City + Fram dominate GA Southwest
How’s the 2023-24 season going?
- Thread starter CharlieMurfee
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Legends and Beach own ECRL
From standings at the end of last season (from oldest to youngest age group standings), Koge and Surf are tops in the Sonoran division
Koge - 1/1/1/3/3/2
Surf - 2/2/2/1/1/1
Blues - 3/3/6/2/2/3
Del Mar - 6/7/4/5/5/4
In Mojave, Legends is the top club with Beach second
Legends - 3/3/1/1/1/5
Beach - 1/2/2/3/2/2
Eagles - 5/7/5/2/3/1
Slammers - 8/1/3/4/4/4
LAFC - 4/5/4/8/8/3
We were in the 07s - Beach and Legends ran away with it. 20pts more than others including the other division.. they were that far ahead. Beach hadn't lost in 2 years.
This is a 2010 forum....
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Not really sure how a single team is relevant to how leagues compaire to each other. The Southwest ECRL dosen't really have a club/team that dominates league play like Liverpool does in DPL. The GOATS and Unicorns are playing in the ECNL; this kind of prevents superteams in the ECRL. With the exception of 2 or 3 weak teams in the ECRL Southwest, just about every matchup I watched could have went either way last year. 90% of games seem to be within 2GD. Beach was consistantly strong throughout the year, and came out on top in playoffs, but I wouldn't say they dominated. Same at Finals, strong, but gamesbwithin 1GD.
I’m confused? I thought Slammers G10 won the RL Mojave? I mean they had a plaque that said that. No NL players needed either..
Blues won RL Sonoran and SW. Not sure what data you’re looking at.
For your reference:
I was responding to the comment "Blues and slammers dominate ECNL locally?" I posted the ECNL results.
Maybe a little league clarity is in order... (on the girls side)
GA + ECNL = Top Teams for clubs
DPL + ECRL = Typically 2nd Teams for clubs (but can be the Top team if they don't have a GA or ECNL team) *
NPL = Top Teams for clubs that aren't in GA ECNL DPL (it's also the highest level of Socal League) **
* DPL is closely aligned with GA and ECRL is directly aligned with ECNL.
** NPL is a league comprised of the top teams from different regional leagues as an example if you live in LA or San Diego SOCAL League. Other parts of the country have different regional leagues, but their top teams play in NPL.
I defined the leagues is a specific order mostly to annoy certain people. ;-)
The reality is that no matter what league you're playing in you want to be in the top 5% of the teams playing. With leagues like DPL ECRL or NPL you want to be in the top 1% of the teams playing.
GA + ECNL = Top Teams for clubs
DPL + ECRL = Typically 2nd Teams for clubs (but can be the Top team if they don't have a GA or ECNL team) *
NPL = Top Teams for clubs that aren't in GA ECNL DPL (it's also the highest level of Socal League) **
* DPL is closely aligned with GA and ECRL is directly aligned with ECNL.
** NPL is a league comprised of the top teams from different regional leagues as an example if you live in LA or San Diego SOCAL League. Other parts of the country have different regional leagues, but their top teams play in NPL.
I defined the leagues is a specific order mostly to annoy certain people. ;-)
The reality is that no matter what league you're playing in you want to be in the top 5% of the teams playing. With leagues like DPL ECRL or NPL you want to be in the top 1% of the teams playing.
rainbow_unicorn
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Why do you have to be in the top 5% or 1% of teams in a league? I thought one of the problems with US soccer is parents obsession with winning and development taking a back seat?
Most parents and players at the top levels of youth soccer start looking at playing in college at the u14 level.
If this is what your kid wants to do being on the top 5% or top 1% of certain leagues means coaches will reach out to you vs you reaching out to them.
At the highest levels of youth soccer teams can switch between possession and direct depending on the team they're playing against. While player "development" is still occurring it switched from individual skills to team tactics.
Thanks very clear picture, our team played flight one last year and have some work to do as new comers if we want to be in the 1% or even the 5% in one of those leagues. Opening day tomorrow let's see how we do.
rainbow_unicorn
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Top 1 or 5% basically means you have to be on the winning team of a division. That's just dumb. I would say upper third of a division would be ideal to get the most looks from colleges at showcases/playoffs. And just cause you're on a good team does not mean you're a good player. There are plenty of players on bottom half of league teams that are ballers and who will be recruited by colleges.
I never said not being on the top 5% or 1% will preclude players from playing in college.
Just highlighting the difference between the players that will get offers thrown at them and the ones that will have to grind by making relationships with coaches on the teams that they want to play on.
RandomSoccerFan
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Looks like TopHat 2010G went 1-1 this weekend in league games, including a loss to a team 20+ in rankings. That's 3 out of 4 significant underperformances so far this season - it's unlikely they will stay top 5 (or 10) for much longer unless the next few game results are markedly different.
No excuses but I looked at the Southeast GA schedule and ANPBK Palm Beach Kicks 10G GA who beat TopHat 10G GA Gold (1-0) has already played 6 league games. This was TopHat 10G GA Gold's first games of the season.
Not sure why GA Southeast Is doing a staggered start. Especially in FL and GA where you can play year round.
I have no idea what either team has been doing during the summer. I do know that sometimes it takes a couple of games to get a team in sync. Maybe there's a new coach, maybe there's new players, maybe there's a new DOC pushing a different style of coaching.
I looked at ANPBK Palm Beach Kicks 10G GA's club website and they seem very originized. https://www.predatorssoccer.org/
Some interesting results this weekend in RL. It will be interesting to see how this season plays out.