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[quote=Anonymous]I checked another one of your claims.

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[b]2025 14-1: 96 (added 9, kept 6)
2024 13-1: 211[/b]

In summary:
Four teams added more players from other clubs than they kept from last year: 13-1, 14-1, 15-1, 14-2, 16-2
[u]Every one of these teams improved in rank, with an average improvement of 115 ranking spots.[/u]

[b]In reality what Paramount is doing is assembling 1 year all star teams that combine a few players from the previous year Paramount teams with the best players from the other clubs. There is no argument that those teams succeed, and you can congratulate their coaches on how they get those all stars to perform.[/b]

[You wrote somewhere later:]

Now consider this scenario: A team finishes just outside the top 12 the region last year and doesn't win a bid. This year it wins a bid. [b]In between the seasons, the team cuts 60-70% of its returning players, doesn't promote any players from its lower team, and then replaces all of its starters with new players from other clubs.[/b] Would you claim the club is good at developing its players?
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You claim that Paramount "cut" 9 players from 13-1 and added 9 "best players" from other clubs, and that this was the reason the team’s national ranking improved from 211 to 96.

First, let’s look at the top 5 ranked 13U teams in the region for the 2023–24 season (based on national rankings):
#16 MDJRS 13 Elite
#46 Metro 13 Travel
#140 Blue Ridge 13 Blue
#187 MVSA 13 Wahoo!
#211 Paramount VBC 13 Hannah

Paramount 13-1 was number 5 in the region.

So where did the 9 players from Paramount 13-1 go? (It is easy to find this info on Google and Instagram.)

1 went to MDJRS, the top team in the region.
1 went to Metro Travel, the second-best team in the region.
1 went to Blue Ridge, the third-best team in the region.
1 moved outside the continental United States.
1 moved from 13U to 15U in another club.
1 went to Paramount 14-2.
3 joined two other strong clubs.

Did Paramount really cut 3 weak players who then ended up on top teams like MDJRS, Metro, and Blue Ridge? I don’t know—but I doubt it.

This year, Paramount 14-1 moved up from #5 to #3 in the region, despite losing 3 players to higher-ranked teams, one player moving away, another moving up an age group, etc:
#19 MDJRS 14 Elite Black
#48 Metro 14 Travel
#96 Paramount VBC 14 Cozad

As I wrote before, players leave for a variety of reasons. You can’t just claim, without evidence, that Paramount cut all those players and then replaced them with better ones from other teams.[/quote]

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