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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The app is way more accurate than gotsoccer.  Gotsoccer rankings are an antiquated system.  Can't believe you diehard "soccer" parents don't know of the app.  Like where have you been?  Gotsoccer is garbage.  Whenever someone mentions rankings from gotsoccer, I laugh and it shows you obviously know nothing about rankings.  [/quote]

I know the app,[b] it immediately lost any credibility when i found out how it ranks teams[/b]. I don't bother with any youth soccer rankings, outside the top 25 or so teams you are truly wasting your time. To think there is any merit to these arbitrary crowdsourced rankings in the hundreds is comical. [/quote]

It ranks teams purely based on the outcomes of their games.  That's it.  [/quote]

Ha, sorry my friend. I hate to break it to you here… that’s not the case.

Think about it this way, in college football the top 25 has multiple polls. Coaches, AP, BCS and they rarely ever have consensus. That’s the top 25 in a sport with massive $ on the line. If you expanded those polls out to a hundred it would have massive differences depending on the methodology of rankings, weight given to different conferences etc.

To attempt to do that in youth soccer where team ranks and results are carried over year to year instead of reset is inaccurate to say the least.

On top of that the algorithm used to rank teams on the app is not transparent by design and the rankings can be altered by users.

I’m not saying don’t use it but understand its an app created to make a profit and not contributed to by any youth soccer governing body for any meaningful ranking.  [/quote]
The rankings app is about as good as you're going to get for ranking youth soccer.

The only thing I don't like about it isn't really the rankings app fault. Top clubs tend to only play each other because of the league they play in. What this means is top clubs insulate their teams from loses from lower level teams. Also lower level clubs will never get a chance to play higher level teams. Because of this lower level clubs need to blow out other lower level teams to push their ranking up. (Most coaches pull back when they're 5 goals up as a show of respect. This screws the team in going up in the ranking)[/quote]

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