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[quote=soccer_dc][quote=FPYCparent]Until yesterday, I was a fan of rankings and the predictive head-to-head projections that YSR offered.  (I haven't tried the new app to see what is new there.)

Here's my [i]new[/i] issue.  DD's team has left the cozy confines of NCSL D1 this fall season and is playing in another club's slot in another (better?) league.  Aside from paying to get the other club's uniform kit and requisite league patch ... as well as playing "home" matches at the other club's home venues, DD's team won't necessarily earn any rankings "credit" for their performance this fall.  Outside of one or two tournaments (where they'll play as FPYC), their team's match history won't reflect any "in-league" play for this fall.  In fact, the team they've replaced will get the match "credits."  The club's original team went 0-for-last-year in league play.  Yesterday, DD's team went out and beat a top team from a local club (one that had at least one newly-minted ECNL player as a guest ... and former FPYC teammate of DD).

In the end, I know it won't really matter in the grand scheme, but this was something I hadn't considered about rankings until league play started yesterday.[/quote]

I would tend to agree about rankings not meaningful except for the very top teams (ECNL,MLS) because they have a more consistent team roster, tournaments, and league schedule from year to year. It's especially inconsistent for younger age groups because they are more likely to form a new team just for a single tournament, use guest players, might have mixed age groups, mixed boys and girls. Some clubs at younger ages have multiple teams in different leagues with a different rosters chosen from a pool of players each week. Take the information in these ranking sites for what it's worth. There is some value in seeing records against common teams, which tournaments teams have entered, recent scores. But it's a stretch to attempt to rank these teams like it's the NFL[/quote]

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