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Anonymous
The 07 boys appear to be ranked higher within the state than the 09 girls. Both seem to be strong teams which could be considered competitive, ranked between 5 and 10 in the state. Neither quite meets the defintion of a top team though - the SYA boys are ranked below, and lost to, Arlington's second team for example. |
Anonymous
Just trying to help you out, but can’t help the helpless. |
Anonymous
| I have no dog in this fight but I would think a team ranked in the top ten would be “competitive” regardless of individual matches. |
Anonymous
You must be a Arlington parent, good job calling our 1 game. That game was a fluke, they hadn’t lost to Arlington in 4 years against the 1st, 2nd, whomever. They are also the the only team in the league to beat Alexandria’s MLS team. How about we top it off by mentioning they played a higher flight than Arlington in Jeff cup and was a finalist in the 3rd flight. Stop trying to take these kids down, they are a good team. |
Anonymous
Not trying to take the kids down. I explicitly said that they were indeed a competitive team. And I agree that individual results are not compelling evidence of much. I only brought up the Arlington 2nd team result because - a PP (you?) had offered the Alexandria result as evidence that SYA were a top team, which is of course a single game result too. You can't have it both ways. If the Alexandria result is evidence of something, then so is the Arlington result. Or, if the Arlington result is not evidence, then nor is the Alexandria result. - in this case, Arlington's 2nd team YSR ranking is higher than SYA's 1st team. That is stronger evidence because it is based on the relative performance of both teams against a wide range of opponents and takes into account the strength of the opponents. Also many of these opponents are in common. My point is that, while SYA are a good, competitive team, they are not quite a top team and, if you believe the Jefferson cup seeding is evidence of anything then playing in the third flight in Jeff would support my position. VDA, SYC, Alexandria, Richmond, Skyline, Achilles, Pipeline, and SAC/Armour are all local teams which played in higher brackets. |
Anonymous
| Valor is barely alive and it’s already dying. Are there legal consequences to these entities for such a fiasco? |
Anonymous
Body of work bud. 07 SYA and Alexandria are only game competitive teams for boys in that age group. Arlington is garbage, and magically has different players when they play either of the aforementioned. |
Anonymous
Wouldn’t call Arlington garbage 07s. But year SYA 07 has consistently one of the strongest teams. Pretty much is been SYA or Alexandria. Sounds like a jealousy factor. Christ I’ve been trying to steal a couple of there kids for 2 years. Cant say that about Arlington. |
Anonymous
The problem with your position is that Youthsoccerrankings is based on body of work. Pipeline, Baltimore Armour, SAC, Potomac, Maryland International, and SAC Spurs, Alexandria, Arlington ECNL, Sterling, VDA ECNL, and Arlington Red are ALL ranked higher on their body of work. If we just look at the CCL league table: 1. Alexandria W15 L1 T0 GF81 GA8 GD 73 2. SYA W12 L2 T1 GF48 GA17 GD 31 3. Arlington Red W9 L2 T5 GF48 GA21 GD 27 Looks to me like SYA and Arlington's 2nd team are pretty close. And obviously if you consider non CCL games Arlington Red has done a little better than SYA - for example they beat Sterling who in turn beat SYA 4-0, which is why youthsoccerrankings has the two teams ranked almost identically with Arlington Red just very slightly ahead. Alexandria appears to be a considerable cut above. I also highly, highly doubt that Arlington magically has different players when they play SYA or Alexandria. Why would they bother? This isn't even their first team for heaven's sake. |
Anonymous
Body of work means over years. Those rankings once you get into top 10 is pretty much subjective. But I do know over last 5 years there only been SYA and Alexandria. |
Anonymous
By first team do you mean ECNL. Well guess who shows up In the rosters when’s red plays. ECNL players. I see the player cards. And y’all still generally lose to them. |
Anonymous
Are you seriously trying to say that a U14 SYA team is better than another U14 team because of how they both played when the kids were 8 years old? What matters is how they're playing now. Perhaps SYA is not developing the kids well? Or maybe Arlington's second team added some kids. In any event, there clearly is not a gap any longer. |
Anonymous
. Lol keep enjoying being a 2nd tier program.. behind SYA and Alexandria |
Anonymous
| Shame the 07 Boys SYA team always seems to choke in State Cup. Upsets in years gone by to NVSC and Burke in early rounds. Not been to a final 4. |
Anonymous
Good thing they have redemption, going to qualifiers. Auto bid |