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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is everyone saying that SYC is ranked number 3 in Va? I thought the clubs below were all better on the girls side.

VDA
FVU
Arlington
McLean
RU
NVA 
VRSC
Loudoun

And those are just the bigger names. Things are changing fast.

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Everyone isn’t saying it.

But the Soccer Rankings App says it.
-And that is, perhaps, the only accurate tool to rank all teams across all platforms.

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Such garbage and you know it. Stick to managing SYC’s Instagram account.

It is A tool, not the only one. And it has more than enough limitations, which have been discussed in this forum to death. Among those limitations for the benefit of the OP….

A club that plays more games and tournaments gets more points in the app, which overall ranks their club higher. So, a club with not actually top 3 older teams as measured against actual opponents can claim to be “#3 in Virginia” because the rankings app simply aggregates the total across all age groups. So, the u9, 10, 11s playing as much as they do in reportable environments means they get more points than any other club at that age. The app eventually corrects for this in individual age group rankings by only using a set time period but the points themselves accrue to keep those teams higher ranked (appropriately) but also subject to their recent results (also, appropriately)

Does that make them the #3 club? In a math problem? Yes. In real life, of course not. A simple look at each age shows the fall off from early ages to later. So, some of those clubs don’t even have younger age groups, which means not having 3-4 years of point accrual means VDA is the #5 girls program.

Is that true? Does anyone actually believe that? Clearly not.

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