I took a look at the YSR rankings today and compared them with the Surf Cup pool-play results for the highest 16-team G2009 bracket. The expected bracket results (1st-4th) based on the YSR rankings proved correct for 14 of the 16 teams. Nearly every team finished where it was expected. True, nobody knows which teams brought ringers, and which teams were missing players, but overall, I am impressed with YSR’s accuracy.
If I recall, MarSpeed’s original objection (described in a different thread), was based on his belief that there is no way that YSR should rank 32 of Calsouth’s teams in the top 100. Based on how well YSR tracked this tournament, I would say that its rankings of the top 100 are likely also accurate. I would go farther than that. Based on intuition and having seen so many teams play over the years, I believe the number of Calsouth teams is probably closer to 50 out of the top 100.
My grid is below. Sorry for the wonky formatting.
YSR
Rank Team Surf Bracket Projected finish Actual Finish
1 Slammers - Aguirre (Cal South) B 1st 1st
3 Slammers - Cruz (Cal South) D 1st 1st
6 Players Elite (Nevada) B 2nd 2nd
5 Blues - Mulligan (Cal South) A 1st 1st
8 Legends FC (Cal South) A 2nd 2nd
13 Blues Navy (Cal North) B 3rd 3rd
21 Solar Angelone (Texas) C 1st 1st
24 FC Sporting Pumas (Cal North) D 2nd 4th
28 Blues - Vaught (Cal South)
29 Slammers - TD (Cal South) C 2nd 2nd
30 Liverpool (Cal South)
33 Seattle United Copa (WA) D 3rd 2nd
34 San Diego Force - Allnut (Cal South)
41 Dallas Texans (Texas) A 3rd 3rd
44 LA Galaxy San Diego (Cal South)
50 Beach - Perez (Cal South) C 3rd 3rd
53 OC Surf Pre-Acad. Hernandez (Cal South)
54 IR Academy Purple (Cal North) C 4th 4th
55 Albion - Whitaker (Cal South)
58 LA Galaxy South Bay (Cal South) B 4th 4th
101 SD Surf Academy Select (Cal South) D 4th 3rd
161 Santa Barbara Elite (Cal South) A 4th 4th