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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NCSL has more than a few D1 teams that are far better than the top CCL  teams[/quote]

There is an element of truth in some of what you say.  But this statement is absolute nonsense.  The top CCL teams (Skyline/Legacy/Herndon/Alexandria) are very good - massively better than ALL the NCSL D1 teams.

Take the boys U16 group as an example, which I picked at random.

NCSL Division 1 contains
Loudoun Black which is [b]Loudoun's 3rd team and currently leads NCSL Division 1[/b].  The first team plays ECNL, the second team plays CCL1.
SYC White which is SYC's 3rd team.  The first team plays CCL1, the second team plays CCL2.
Alexandria White which is Alexandria's 2nd team.  The first team plays CCL1 and MLSNext.

Loudoun Black, the division leader, has a YSR rating of 35.32.

CCL1 is currently topped by Legacy with a YSR rating of 39.88, nearly 5 goals better!  The worst clubs in CCL1 at this age are NVSC, SYA and LMVSC with YSR ratings of 36.36, 35.25 and 34.99 respectively.  These three teams have managed to amass 4 wins between them out of a combined 44 games in CCL1.

So it is true to say that the top teams in NCSL Div 1 are as good as the cellar dwellers in CCL1.  But [b]the best teams in CCL are massively better than the top teams in NCSL division 1[/b].[/quote]

You can’t reliably use NCSL spring Standings for HS age groups to draw meaningful conclusions. That division includes NPL teams, including an NPL team (Vienna) that was in the same bracket at Jeff Cup as Loudoun’s ECNL team. Those 2 were a bracket below another team in the NCSL Div 1 (SDor Elite 05), which has beaten Loudoun’s ECNL team, as well as a number of other teams in elite leagues. NPL has ‘NPL State Cup’ on-going, SDor also plays EDP. The reality is that the rosters for these teams can vary drastically from their ‘normal rosters’ since they are in multiple leagues (plus HS) so the results should be taken with a grain of salt. Whether teams that play in NPL, CCL and EDP - in addition to NCSL - should be considered ‘NCSL’ teams is debatable but, either way, I think it is a good thing that clubs are doing multiple leagues since it increases the amount of game play and, in the case of NCSL, it’s typically fairly local travel.[/quote]

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