It usually updates by Tuesday or Wednesday after the previous weekends games. But as some have mentioned there are errors.Does the site update throughout the season, or only at the end?
Think they will include the 09 when they update it? Seems like the lowest age group is 08.It usually updates by Tuesday or Wednesday after the previous weekends games. But as some have mentioned there are errors.
Over the years he has added age groups. But I'd say no. More than likely it has to do with first establishing a team and at that age group they are building their resume.Think they will include the 09 when they update it? Seems like the lowest age group is 08.
That's new...so basically if some teams don't participate in the higher ranking tournaments chances of getting the necessary points to have a go ranking stance will not give teams opportunities. Yet at the same time this will be great for the higher ranking tournaments and more money for them as well. Just a theory for making more money perhaps for those clubs that have higher ranking tournaments.I noticed today that the application for Surf Cup asks for team info from youth soccer rankings site
That's new...so basically if some teams don't participate in the higher ranking tournaments chances of getting the necessary points to have a go ranking stance will not give teams opportunities. Yet at the same time this will be great for the higher ranking tournaments and more money for them as well. Just a theory for making more money perhaps for those clubs that have higher ranking tournaments.
Youth Soccer rankings does not go by tournaments even though it list them. He goes by head to head competition against a opponent, he's got a algorithm which figures either you should win or lose ,and your rating goes up and down even within the same tournament. I think our team has barely won a game and our ranking score has goes down because the algorithm calculates you should have defeated the team by a bigger marginThat's new...so basically if some teams don't participate in the higher ranking tournaments chances of getting the necessary points to have a go ranking stance will not give teams opportunities. Yet at the same time this will be great for the higher ranking tournaments and more money for them as well. Just a theory for making more money perhaps for those clubs that have higher ranking tournaments.
...so basically if some teams don't participate in the higher ranking tournaments chances of getting the necessary points to have a go ranking stance will not give teams opportunities.
Sounds good to me.Actually, this is precisely what Youth Soccer Rankings did not do, and why I like that site so much and wish it had the resources to get current.
It is not a point based ranking system like GotSoccer. Instead it is a form of power ranking that only takes game results into account. It doesn't care whether those results are from a regular season game, or a tournament, or what kind of tournament. It simply looks at the game score and the ranking of the opponent. By having a giant database of recent games, it can look at results between common opponents, and common opponents of opponents, etc, to build a mathematical power ranking that is more accurate than the point based system you mention and which is used by GotSoccer.
The point value assigned to teams by Youth Soccer Rankings is not a reflection of how many tournaments the team entered, or the perceived quality of those tournaments. Instead, the point value assigned to the team is a power ranking value that can be used to predict how two teams will fare head-to-head. Simply subtract the value for the two teams and that predicts by how many goals one team would beat the other.
I discovered it last year and followed it for the teams in our regular season bracket, as well as the tournaments we entered and I was quite surprised and impressed how good its predictive value was.
p.s. I am not associated with the site in any way. I am just a fan who thinks highly of concept and the implementation.
You can fix this automatically. Go to correct team then remove games played by another team. And vice versa, do report missing competition. Wait a few days for changes.I wish there was a way to get some of the errors fixed. I see that you can manually fix some of easier issues such as team name or age, but as an example my daughter's 2007 team won a big tournament over Labor Day (3W & 1D) but the site confused the results with our club's 2008 team which was playing up in age (1D & 2L). So my daughter's 2007 team dropped down 10 spots into the teens and the 2008 team jumped way up to the top of the Region. It's also thrown a bunch of other teams results out of whack because it looks like they beat a very strong 2007 team or lost to a weaker 2008 team, while the opposite is actually true.
The new site manager, Ryan, has been sending notes back about fixes that I suggested (some of Coast Soccer league games were duplicated into different age groups), so he's working on things. The problem I noticed was just fixed.
It is a great resource and shows how irrelevant gotsoccer rankings are. The predictive power of YSR is uncanny, although there are some assumptions such as boys v girls and age v age that I think are inaccurate.
I am sure it is an overwhelming task.
There have certainly been offers to help or get involved from posters here and probably elsewhere.
I'm guessing the guy who runs it is either integrating some of those offers or forging ahead solo and that is why the site has been a little more spotty than normal.
But big cheers to him regardless!
Very simple; Tournaments use it and others to determine if you are accepted. it is sort of a way to ensure quality teams and competitive balanceA question. Why is the ranking so important?
Just think about it beyond the obvious for moment. Does it really matter?