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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mlsn isn’t changing 26/27. [b]They won’t feel the effects until tryouts 27/28 imo.[/b] 26/27 they’re still recruiting from by rosters. As the years progress the by kid will be lower in the totem pole on the rosters they recruit from. I can see them changing 1 or 2 years after. They cant remain the top boys league while recruiting that 5th and under best kid on their ulittle teams.

And no they won’t just bioband every q4[/quote]

The effects of what?

I’m a SY proponent. And also totally OK with MLSN and GA staying BY. Who cares?! But what are these magical “effects”?

ECNL girls is dominant. ECNL boys isn’t. On the boys side this is like ECNL not liking the way the teams were picked, and leaving the playground to go play with the little kids. What is MORE likely in that scenario is ECNL losing kids that want to keep playing on the playground. What is unlikely is the kids on the other team agreeing, and quiting their “unfairly stacked” team, and going to play with the little kids with ECNL.[/quote]

The effect of Rae

Indisputable that the current top rosters skew q1 and q2, even more so with the ulittles. Think we can all agree the change to school year is going to flip to 8-12 for the ulittles.

And if there’s one thing that’s certain, the majority of parents are going to do whatever they can for any advantage [/quote]
Exactly if you think the 2nd and 3rd teams at ulittle ages are getting the same quality of training as the 1st teams then sure there will be no issues.  For a year or two not aligning will have little impact.   After that it will matter.  [/quote]
So youre saying that the top teams control who plays and for everyone else it doesnt matter.

Isn't this exactly what MLSN is already doing?

If MLS club tournaments stay BY and they dont participate in ECNL tournaments. Wouldn't ECNL be forced to play up against players 6 months older in MLS tournamants?[/quote]
No I'm saying at ulittle ages clubs give the top teams better coaches more practices ect.  That adds up over time.   If the ulittle leagues are going to start favoring Q4's they are going to be the majority of the more developed players.  Sure if you have money and pay for all the extras and accept a lower ulittle team you can make it through.   But the majority of top team ulittle teams are going to become Q4 and Q1 instead of the current Q1 and Q2 make up today.  Unless our culture changes to treat all u littles equally or the ulittle leagues become even more fractured with different age cutoffs the effects will matter.   [/quote]
OK I hear what you're saying but what I said still applies. The top clubs are BY this means if they stay BY the SY clubs will have to play at a 6 month disadvantage when participating in BY club tournaments.[/quote]

You have it backwards. Mlsn will have to play up in tournament play

And the top clubs are not staying by, everyone but mlsn is going sy. [/quote]
If a BY club hosts a BY tournament please explain to me which age grouping SY clubs will register in?

I'll talk you through it.

2010 BY means 1/1 cutoff. The only SY team that will be able to play in this level will be a 2011 SY team with an 8/1 cutoff. See how it works? The 2011 SY can bring older players 1/1 - 8/1 but these will be from the SY 2010 team. Which for most clubs will be too much of a PITA so only the SY 2011s will be playing.[/quote]
For the boys what this means is as long as MLSN Acadamies have a connection to MLS teams they'll have an advantage staying BY. MLSN can even say that they invite ECNL to their events but they either never show up or lose. (Carefully omitting that ECNL teams are giving up 6 months of development because of SY groupings.)

If GA connected with NWSL and stayed BY they'd have the same 6 month advantage at BY events over ECNL clubs.

On the other side of the coin if MLSN + GA stayed BY what would happen is neither would play in SY (ECNL) tournaments because they'd be giving uo 6 months of development.[/quote]

I understand what you’re saying but what youre missing is that there are not any by clubs. They’re SY clubs with a handful of by teams playing mlsn. Doing you really think a club like Albion is going to do by tournaments while 95 percent of the teams there are SY?

The big interplay tournaments in SoCal are going to be sy. [/quote]
What clubs like Albion will do is just not participate in SY tournaments. They'll host BY tournaments (inviting SY clubs) and only BY teams (mostly) will attend.

MLSN BY teams will stay at the top of the ratings because they have all the best players and only play each other.

If theres a BY/SY split the rankings app guy will likely need to break them out into different views. This would make ECNL boys teams look good because they'd be the top SY teams and MLSN would dominate the BY grouping.[/quote]

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