Is DA done?

[jpeter]

Would you mind providing a link to YSR?

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I took a look seems like they only track certain leagues + gotsoccecr events.

Missing a lot of data possibly I dunno but good for them to provide a service people like, guess you can give them data or links to upload or something?

While this whole da shakeup and league mombo jumble is interesting to discuss I'm sort of glad on a personal level my son already made his commitments in FEB and signed up or participated in things in anticipatipn of next season that so far are still a go as planned.

 

[thedudeabides]

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I took a look seems like they only track certain leagues + gotsoccecr events.

Missing a lot of data possibly I dunno but good for them to provide a service people like, guess you can give them data or links to upload or something?

While this whole da shakeup and league mombo jumble is interesting to discuss I'm sort of glad on a personal level my son already made his commitments in FEB and signed up or participated in things in anticipatipn of next season that so far are still a go as planned.

YSR, tracks every single official result that shows up online, which is 95% + of all games. If there are games missing, there is usually a glitch on the reporting side. If the games were reported and don't show up, they have a self correcting feature. If that fails, they have a way for a team representative to point out the mistake and it is usually corrected within 48 hours. I have no idea what you are talking about because there is no other system that tracks the amount of games YSR does. Please provide a link to a more reliable or thorough system. My company would pay a lot for that service.

 

[jpeter]

YSR, tracks every single official result that shows up online, which is 95% + of all games. If there are games missing, there is usually a glitch on the reporting side. If the games were reported and don't show up, they have a self correcting feature. If that fails, they have a way for a team representative to point out the mistake and it is usually corrected within 48 hours. I have no idea what you are talking about because there is no other system that tracks the amount of games YSR does. Please provide a link to a more reliable or thorough system. My company would pay a lot for that service.

Ok if you say so don't see the da games, bunch of tournaments other leagues like some of usclubs leagues, etc but whatever

 

[Ed Ho]

Ok if you say so don't see the da games, bunch of tournaments other leagues like some of usclubs leagues, etc but whatever

Jpeter is right. I just looked for our team - a top non MLS DA (or at least used to be in that league) and YSR did not have the La Galaxy Cup, super Copa, or Generation Addidas tournaments. Those were probably 3 of the top 10 tournaments last year. And then they were counting some other team from our club in our record for 2018. Just keeping straight which team actually played is frequently a problem. And any person can email YSR rankings and tell them that the info is wrong and they will add or remove. I’m pretty sure no parent on here is going to reply that they asked YSR to include missing results that make their team look worse.

YSR is definitely the most accurate of the 2 sites that do this - by far - but it is more directionally correct vs completely accurate.

I think the biggest win of mixing DA vs non DA is that the playing styles are different. Possession, high press, counter attacking, bunker / pure long ball teams. At the youth level, it’s about making decisions and the more styles and types of players they encounter will test their soccer IQ - and hopefully develop.

 

[eastbaysoccer]

Coronavirus Claims U.S. Soccer Development Academy — Is College Soccer Next?

To think about how else American soccer will change during this time, we should ask ourselves where it already appeared most vulnerable. Answering that question honestly should warn us that the men’s college game could be in for a serious decline.

www.forbes.com

 

[jpeter]

Coronavirus Claims U.S. Soccer Development Academy — Is College Soccer Next?

To think about how else American soccer will change during this time, we should ask ourselves where it already appeared most vulnerable. Answering that question honestly should warn us that the men’s college game could be in for a serious decline.

www.forbes.com

Good post & article.

With the NCCA coming out this week in saying no Athletics until in person colleges resumes and the students return to campus there could be financial problems as a result. The non money makers could be in the most Jeopardy and we've already seen a few of them just drop soccer already especially at the smaller to mid sized universities.

Hopefully things get back on track eventually and the football money starts to pour in again but got to hurt losing the basketball tournament and funds that would have been collected

 

[gottouch]

could see MLS taking TFA, and maybe Barca (their location is a tough travel)

Tough travel is right. How would the MLS travel work? This seems a bit crazy if you do not

I don't have a son that plays for LAFC. I have been to many of their youth matches and scouted many of their players. I'm just making observations on what I have seen from tracking players/teams for many years using stats and real results over hype. Was anything I said about them not true or overly biased? I know for a fact they have been beating up non-mls DA's for the last few years and sometimes with youngers. You can't have a so called uniform DA system when there is a 5-6 goal difference between the top and bottom. It's bad for both ends of the spectrum.

We have quite a few friends with boys on those teams. We have played against and sometimes been close. Always enjoyed watching them play. They are always very strong. I agree about the goal differential. Often not a lot of parity among that DA bracket at all.

 

[Kante]

A good article with a ray of hope for what could come next. SoccerAmerica has done more in the last two years to hold the powers that be accountable than most - if not all - other soccer pubs. In these tough times, probably worth subscribing to 1) stay up developments in a rapidly changing environment 2) help keep these guys afloat

FC Dallas president Dan Hunt in face of the current soccer crisis: 'I think we need to be investing even more in youth soccer'

Hunt believes rival MLS clubs who are not committed to youth development will fall behind, whatever the new world looks like.

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Key quote the article:

"It's incumbent on owners to take the lead in this," he (FC Dallas Dan Hunt) said, "and I want to be that person. I hope we have some other fellow owners who care, and I know we do, but we have people with varying interests in how they develop young players. For any ownership group to say they don't have good talent in their market is farcical for me. It's a joke because it tells me you are not working at it."​

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Any time he hears that from another owner he says he laughs and asks, "Is the DNA of a player in Dallas better than the DNA of a player in your market? Then people get real quiet because they know it's because of a lack of effort."​

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[focomoso]

So I would agree with much of that. ...

So, yes. We're mostly just splitting hairs here. YSR is definitely _way_ better than Got Soccer. We played the supposed number one team in the country according to got soccer and lost 1-0 (we are definitely not just one goal below the best team in the country). Got Soccer's model is closer to the one used in tennis. You give each tournament a numeric value and assign points based on how well teams do. This works in tennis because the value of the tournaments is set by prize money, but it fails miserably in youth soccer. This is why a... reasonably good, but nothing special team from New Jersey, can be ranked number one. They would probably be, top 20 or 30 if they played in SoCal.

But I do think that DA teams are (were) undervalued in the YSR rankings because of the lack of games between groups - not out-of-state DAs, I have no way to assess them - but in so cal, the same sandbagging effect holds. Beating up everyone in flight 1, especially, as you say, if you pour on the goals at the end of a blowout, inflates your ranking. This happens less often in the DA (LAFC notwithstanding).

 

[jpeter]

U.S. Soccer Development Academy Club Realignment Tracker

U.S. Soccer Development Academy Club Realignment Tracker (Boys 1.0)

SoccerWire is launching a DA Club Realignment Tracker.

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To keep up with this evolving story, SoccerWire is launching a Boys DA Club Realignment Tracker, which will be updated regularly, as more former DA clubs finalize their plans for the 2020-2021 season. An initial Girls DA Club Realignment Tracker will be posted later this week.