MLSNext Cup - U13 & U14 Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Congrats to the DMV teams who made the playoffs for the MLSNext Cup U13 & U14 age groups.

[Anonymous]

Who are those teams?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are those teams?

For U13, SYC, Armour and Alexandria made the first tier. Achilles made the second tier.

For U14, SYC made the first tier, Alexandria made the second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who are those teams?

For U13, SYC, Armour and Alexandria made the first tier. Achilles made the second tier.

For U14, SYC made the first tier, Alexandria made the second.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Bethesda?

[Anonymous]

Let’s go Achilles!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s go Achilles!!!!

Wooohooooo!!!

[Anonymous]

Awesome - way to go DMV boys

[Anonymous]

Achilles has a U14 game on the schedule. How does MLSN cup work? (I am only familiar with girls ECNL playoffs. Is this the equivalent?)

[Anonymous]

This is the first year that the U13 and U14 teams are playing in the MLS Next Cup. Teams were selected based on their Quality of Play (QoP) rankings, not on their win/loss record. QoP is a new score created and calculated by MLS Next. So the Achilles U13 team played 32 games this season -- 3 wins, 1 tie, 28 losses. But their QoP ranking -- which was obviously better than their win/loss record -- got them a spot in the Premier level (2nd tier) of the MLS Next Cup. Who knows if the QoP rankings are valid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the first year that the U13 and U14 teams are playing in the MLS Next Cup. Teams were selected based on their Quality of Play (QoP) rankings, not on their win/loss record. QoP is a new score created and calculated by MLS Next. So the Achilles U13 team played 32 games this season -- 3 wins, 1 tie, 28 losses. But their QoP ranking -- which was obviously better than their win/loss record -- got them a spot in the Premier level (2nd tier) of the MLS Next Cup. Who knows if the QoP rankings are valid?

Achilles will likely lose all their games. But with great quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the first year that the U13 and U14 teams are playing in the MLS Next Cup. Teams were selected based on their Quality of Play (QoP) rankings, not on their win/loss record. QoP is a new score created and calculated by MLS Next. So the Achilles U13 team played 32 games this season -- 3 wins, 1 tie, 28 losses. But their QoP ranking -- which was obviously better than their win/loss record -- got them a spot in the Premier level (2nd tier) of the MLS Next Cup. Who knows if the QoP rankings are valid?

MLS seems to think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the first year that the U13 and U14 teams are playing in the MLS Next Cup. Teams were selected based on their Quality of Play (QoP) rankings, not on their win/loss record. QoP is a new score created and calculated by MLS Next. So the Achilles U13 team played 32 games this season -- 3 wins, 1 tie, 28 losses. But their QoP ranking -- which was obviously better than their win/loss record -- got them a spot in the Premier level (2nd tier) of the MLS Next Cup. Who knows if the QoP rankings are valid?

Achilles will likely lose all their games. But with great quality.

I wonder if we can apply QoP to sour grapes? We’ll call it Quality of Grapes (QoG) and measure micro tantrums.

[Anonymous]

Its not the top QoP rankings
The top 4 mid-atlantic u14 teams aren't going

[Anonymous]

Yeah quality of play is not going to make Achilles look better when they lose every game. A 28 loss record is atrocious. Achilles and their players simply do not belong in MLS Next.