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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a list of college commitments from the National league website: http://www.usyouthsoccer.org/national_league/national_league_college_commitments/[/quote]

Combining U18 & U19 boys that is about 68 commitments for up to 1200 league players for about a 5% commitment rate. While not official numbers and certainly great schools are represented there is nothing there that would convince me that ODP would not help a player stand out. [/quote]

Actually, there are 32 boys teams at U18 but 16 teams at U19 so 48 teams x 20 players per team is 960 players (not 1200).  So that is a (reported) commitment rate of 7.2% for those juniors and seniors.    Of course there are dozens of boys DA teams around the country who send every boy on their rosters to play on a college team, so the commitment rate for boys playing in the National League competition will be depressed by the strong presence of DA teams on the boys side.

On the girls side of the National League teams, it looks like there are 308 college commits reported at U18 and U19 (out of 960 players) so about a 33% college commit rate for high school juniors and seniors.  That seems like a pretty good ratio for the girls considering that the dozens of ECNL teams don't participate in National League competion.[/quote]

The Boys side was being discussed. Based on the official standings there are 48 teams combining U18&U19/20 age groups. Adjusting for the max roster size of 22 kids that leaves a maximum of 1056 possible kids. The percentage of commits is now at 6%.

So again, please tell me that ODP is of no help here. Since there is no significant bump in terms of average based on the league I would think that ODP would help some of those kids stand out a bit. The process could simply expose them to a college coach they might not have otherwise played in front of.

ODP can be a time suck but a year or two would not hurt at all. [/quote]

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