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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s simple. Whichever clubs pay more to this new site/app will end up ranked higher. It’s all a business.  You know how it works.[/quote]

This is completely false. The rankings app is just an algorithm.[/quote]

Garbage in
Garbage out [/quote]

But it's not - they actually fix incorrect results. Our entire league has correct results and the app including all external tournaments. I'd say the rankings match almost exactly with how the teams would be subjectively graded as well. [/quote]

Does it rank passing accuracy?
Does it rank the number of successful dribbles with a positive net result?
Does it rank combined team decision making?
Does it rank goals off set pieces vs run of play?

[b]Basically, the app will tell you that the best team that has a horrible goalie is a bad team[/b] [/quote]

If you want to rank the litany of things that you listed above, then start an app to do that. Hire the statisticians to keep track of said items.  Geez, it's freaking youth soccer, not the EPL for Pete's sake.  All in all, I think the Rankings app does a decent job of placing teams where they should be.  I know when looking at my DDs ECNL team and who she was playing at playoffs, it was pretty accurate with the predictive side of things.   If you are looking at results - that is WINS, then yes, the team may have wonderful metrics as you describe, but if the goalie can't stop a beachball, then right, they are a bad team overall.  [/quote]

The point is, its not a soccer ranking app.
It's a scoreboard ranking app[/quote]
So? There is still value to a scoreboard ranking app. Most people understand what it is and what it isn’t. Scoreboard rankings are widely used in sports at all levels.[/quote]

Maybe focus on how the game is being taught, learned and applied by the kids for quality

Than the chubby kid letting in 6 goals every match because no one else wanted to be goalie and calling that team weak[/quote]

Oh for goodness sake.  If you don't want to look at the "scoreboard app" then don't look at it.  Look, for all of time, people wanted to know who was the best and in large part, that has always been decided on who is winning as decided by how that sport is judged.  In pretty much all sports, you are talking about out scoring your opponent.  It's not decided on who connected the most passes, or has the most possession or who wins the most 50/5t0 balls.   Are those things important in the overall development of players, sure, I'll admit that, but that's not what "rankings" are all about.

And the comment about the goalie is just pretty weak.  I'm not sure what level that your kids are playing, but by the time that teams are U13 and above they are having kids that want to play goalie and are serious about it.  If teams are playing at levels when folks really start to look at "rankings" and are in ECNL, MLSN, etc, there is a serious goalie and not just the leftover kid that got stuck there.

Pretty fun stuff for a thread that was started and then dead since 2018![/quote]

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