NCSL Divisions

[Anonymous]

Hmm. We are Arlington Blue 09, and based on last season, I thought we would be in the top division, but I guess not. Oh well. Hopefully it'll be fun for everyone.


Who places teams? Well we were at division three last year and now division one and no way do we belong there! White is going to kick our butts.

No clue. My son's Alexandria team won division 5 last season and now we are suddenly in division 2, which I think may be tough for us. I don't really get how it works.

[Anonymous]

We are new to ncsl. Are the divisions listed in order by rank or difficulty on the site?

U9 C, P S (divison 1-3)

U10 C, O, X (division 1-3)?

[Anonymous]

Boys 09 division 1 is a weird division. Definitely moved teams down that did well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are new to ncsl. Are the divisions listed in order by rank or difficulty on the site?

U9 C, P S (divison 1-3)

U10 C, O, X (division 1-3)?

There aren't technically divisions at U9 and 10, but they have a common sense structure. They aren't aren't going to play BSC 1 v. Arlington 4, for example. It looks like they put most big clubs top two teams in C and some smaller clubs top team. Even within that, they will match up 1s v 1s and 2 v 2s for the big clubs. There are no standings or publicly posted scores at these ages.

So, I think, roughly speaking, what they are calling C at u9/10 is like a hybrid D1/2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are new to ncsl. Are the divisions listed in order by rank or difficulty on the site?

U9 C, P S (divison 1-3)

U10 C, O, X (division 1-3)?

There aren't technically divisions at U9 and 10, but they have a common sense structure. They aren't aren't going to play BSC 1 v. Arlington 4, for example. It looks like they put most big clubs top two teams in C and some smaller clubs top team. Even within that, they will match up 1s v 1s and 2 v 2s for the big clubs. There are no standings or publicly posted scores at these ages.

So, I think, roughly speaking, what they are calling C at u9/10 is like a hybrid D1/2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are new to ncsl. Are the divisions listed in order by rank or difficulty on the site?

U9 C, P S (divison 1-3)

U10 C, O, X (division 1-3)?

There aren't technically divisions at U9 and 10, but they have a common sense structure. They aren't aren't going to play BSC 1 v. Arlington 4, for example. It looks like they put most big clubs top two teams in C and some smaller clubs top team. Even within that, they will match up 1s v 1s and 2 v 2s for the big clubs. There are no standings or publicly posted scores at these ages.

So, I think, roughly speaking, what they are calling C at u9/10 is like a hybrid D1/2.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

the u9 and u10s are best guess for fall and adjusted a little closer in spring. You have to remember the top u9 teams may be terrible by the time they get to u11 for various reasons. So dont put to much into it.

[Anonymous]

There aren't technically divisions at U9 and 10, but they have a common sense structure. They aren't aren't going to play BSC 1 v. Arlington 4, for example. It looks like they put most big clubs top two teams in C and some smaller clubs top team. Even within that, they will match up 1s v 1s and 2 v 2s for the big clubs. There are no standings or publicly posted scores at these ages.

Agree, but it looks like when they did that for Alexandria, they didn't account for the fact that MLS Next was added as the top team and pushed all the other "colors" down by one team level. It'll still be fine, it just means that a 2nd level team from someplace else is against a 3rd level Alexandria team now; it is not that off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There aren't technically divisions at U9 and 10, but they have a common sense structure. They aren't aren't going to play BSC 1 v. Arlington 4, for example. It looks like they put most big clubs top two teams in C and some smaller clubs top team. Even within that, they will match up 1s v 1s and 2 v 2s for the big clubs. There are no standings or publicly posted scores at these ages.

Agree, but it looks like when they did that for Alexandria, they didn't account for the fact that MLS Next was added as the top team and pushed all the other "colors" down by one team level. It'll still be fine, it just means that a 2nd level team from someplace else is against a 3rd level Alexandria team now; it is not that off.

Who care like a pp said at u9 and u10 the difference between the top team and 3rd team is only a wide margin in the eyes of the top team parents.

[Anonymous]

re like a pp said at u9 and u10 the difference between the top team and 3rd team is only a wide margin in the eyes of the top team parents.

Ha! That is sweet of you to say, in my perspective as the parent of a child on the 3rd team, but it does seem like many of the kids currently on the top team are considerably better than him. Of course there is still plenty of time for him to improve, and I hope he will!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

re like a pp said at u9 and u10 the difference between the top team and 3rd team is only a wide margin in the eyes of the top team parents.

Ha! That is sweet of you to say, in my perspective as the parent of a child on the 3rd team, but it does seem like many of the kids currently on the top team are considerably better than him. Of course there is still plenty of time for him to improve, and I hope he will!

Not PP and I agree. Things will change considerably over the years, but it's not even close right now from what I have seen at multiple clubs. At ours it is a very considerable margin and every parent on the 3rd team would admit as much.

[Anonymous]

The teams really move around a lot the first few years. Our best U12 player was on the third team her first year. There are plenty of former fourth or fifth team players currently on the 2nd team, and vice versa.

[Anonymous]

So where are the 2010 and 2011 McLean Green teams playing this year? They left the CCL and were playing up an age group in the NCSL in the spring but don't seem to be listed in any of the NCLS divisions for the fall (just the McLean White teams are). Are they going back to playing in the CCL or also jumping to the ECNL Regional league like Loudoun and Arlington top teams? Or something totally different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are out... Noticed Mclean U11 & U12 teams are not represented. Didn't see Sterling's U12 team either. Did Arlington's teams each bump up a color for U12?

sterling is ncsl for their lower/younger teams and edp for their higher teams and since they went undefeated in div 1 ncsl they move to edp like their 07 team did a few years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. We are Arlington Blue 09, and based on last season, I thought we would be in the top division, but I guess not. Oh well. Hopefully it'll be fun for everyone.

If you are 09G Blue this past year, you are now 09G White as ranking is now ECNL, Red, White, Blue, etc