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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it shows you are on a decent pathway - training with good players at the very least every week if you are successful on game days.  For the smaller clubs breaking or even being mentioned with these big clubs that play ECNL or even GA- even better showing of development by their club and coaches to be in the same ranking.   That is what it means to me. [/quote]

That is a great common sense answer. Thanks. [/quote]

And there are a lot of ways these teams can be ranked to suit a particular narrative.

All the listed teams are good soccer teams in the larger sense. Richmond has clear separation from the group and VDA has a little bit of separation. But Arlington, Bethesda, Union, FCV and Loudoun are all in pretty tight grouping. Then Metro is on the outside looking in with a pretty sharp drop off after them.

Bethesda has obviously improved. Union seems to be coming together and will have faced the top 3 teams in the conference in the first 5 games. VDA will be fine. Arlington is off to a good start but seem to be stalling a bit.

FCV will roll in GA but their competition is highly suspect and so their score lines should give strong reason for pause. FCV tends to struggle in more evenly matched competition outside of their league conference. FCV has yet to beat an opponent that is ranked higher than they are currently ranked. If you are a top ten team Nationally this isn't that big of deal but when you are ranked 73rd there are still lots of opportunities to play higher ranked teams with a reasonable chance to succeed. [/quote]

Then you should add whoever is top of NCSL, I mean you are adding Metro.[/quote]

No, the level of competition at GA is much higher than NCSL. The average national ranking in Metro's GA conference is 374.

Of the teams ranked in ECNL-R for Northern VA the overall National Ranking average is 685. Great Falls and Villareal are not ranked or are at least not accurately listed, but their rankings would likely be worse than 1500 in the nation.

You don't have to believe Metro is good, but to say they are no better than NCSL when the team has been successful against significantly higher competition than NCSL or ECNL-R is crazy.  [/quote]

There are teams in lower level leagues that are much better than Metro and many other GA teams.  VYS 08, for example, beat Maryland United 08, which beat FCV 08 academy with the score 4-0.  I would not be shocked if VYS 08 could do extremely well in GA, if they played there. [/quote]

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