Anonymous wrote:Ranking are based on points obtained from doing tournaments. This is a extremely flawed way of ranking teams considering most ECNL teams don't chase tournament points.

Skyline FC (SOCA) 04 girls were ranked #1 in VA and got handled by local ECNL teams. Don't put to much thought into it.

GOTSOCCER, yes. YSR uses an algorithm based on scores during both league play and tournaments. Not saying it is 100% accurate, but its actually decent.

Anonymous wrote:Ranking are based on points obtained from doing tournaments. This is a extremely flawed way of ranking teams considering most ECNL teams don't chase tournament points.

Skyline FC (SOCA) 04 girls were ranked #1 in VA and got handled by local ECNL teams. Don't put to much thought into it.

I agree but many ECNL teams avoid tournaments for the risk of exposing as an average teams.

Ranking are based on points obtained from doing tournaments. This is a extremely flawed way of ranking teams considering most ECNL teams don't chase tournament points.

Skyline FC (SOCA) 04 girls were ranked #1 in VA and got handled by local ECNL teams. Don't put to much thought into it.

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Anonymous wrote:Skyline is no where near ECNL quality. Neither is BRYC.

I agree BRYC is weak. Skyline is significantly better than BRYC. I would say that Skyline boys are better than all of BRYC, McLean and Loudoun. They are not as good as Arlington or Richmond.

So they may not be ECNL quality - whatever that is - but they are better than plenty of local ECNL clubs.

Are they better than VDA?

Depends on the year. However, from YSR, you can see why Skyline is a good team to add to ECNL and why some are saying BRYC and Mclean maybe should be replaced:

U-13
1 RICHMOND UNITED ECNL [26] 34.57
2 VDA ECNL [28] 34.46
5 LOUDOUN SC SOCCER ECNL [84] 33.38
6 ARLINGTON SOCCER ECNL [144] 32.8
17 SKYLINE ELITE [446] 31.15
19 BRADDOCK ROAD YOUTH CLUB ELITE ACADEMY ECNL [500] 30.92
31 MCLEAN YS YSA ECNL [831] 29.78

U-14
2 ARLINGTON SA SOCCER ECNL [53] 36.12
3 VDA ECNL [84] 35.59
6 SOCA SKYLINE ELITE [167] 34.81
7 LOUDOUN SC SOCCER ECNL [170] 34.8
8 RICHMOND UNITED ECNL [193] 34.67
23 BRADDOCK ROAD YOUTH CLUB ELITE ACADEMY ECNL [578] 33.04
37 MCLEAN YS GREEN [871] 32.15

U-15
1 ARLINGTON SA SOCCER ECNL [6] 39.41
2 RICHMOND UNITED ECNL [11] 39.07
3 SOCA SKYLINE ELITE [13] 38.9
7 VIRGINIA DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY ECNL [169] 36.92
9 BRADDOCK ROAD YOUTH CLUB ELITE ACADEMY ECNL [205] 36.68
10 MCLEAN YS ECNL [219] 36.52
24 LOUDOUN SC SOCCER ECNL [481] 35.26

U-16
1 RICHMOND UNITED ECNL [4] 40.73
2 ARLINGTON SA SOCCER ECNL [5] 40.72
4 LOUDOUN SC SOCCER ECNL [103] 38.79
6 SOCA SKYLINE ELITE [133] 38.5
11 MCLEAN YS ECNL [248] 37.81
17 VIRGINIA DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY ECNL [337] 37.35
24 BRADDOCK ROAD YOUTH CLUB ELITE ACADEMY ECNL [498] 36.63

U-17
2 MCLEAN YS ECNL [24] 41.19
3 SOCA SKYLINE ELITE [37] 40.86
4 ARLINGTON SA SOCCER ECNL [41] 40.76
5 RICHMOND UNITED ECNL [44] 40.68
7 VDA ECNL [64] 40.51
8 LOUDOUN SC SOCCER ECNL [66] 40.5
10 BRADDOCK ROAD YOUTH CLUB ELITE ACADEMY ECNL [86] 40.27

U-19
3 LOUDOUN SC SOCCER ECNL [39] 41.45
4 RICHMOND UNITED ECNL [55] 41.27
5 ARLINGTON SOCCER ECNL [68] 41.08
6 VDA ECNL [86] 40.79
7 BRADDOCK ROAD YOUTH CLUB ELITE ACADEMY ECNL [97] 40.58
9 MCLEAN YS YSA ECNL [159] 40.04
37 SOCA ELITE [510] 37.43

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Anonymous wrote:Skyline is no where near ECNL quality. Neither is BRYC.

I agree BRYC is weak. Skyline is significantly better than BRYC. I would say that Skyline boys are better than all of BRYC, McLean and Loudoun. They are not as good as Arlington or Richmond.

So they may not be ECNL quality - whatever that is - but they are better than plenty of local ECNL clubs.

Are they better than VDA?

Anonymous wrote:Skyline is no where near ECNL quality. Neither is BRYC.

I agree BRYC is weak. Skyline is significantly better than BRYC. I would say that Skyline boys are better than all of BRYC, McLean and Loudoun. They are not as good as Arlington or Richmond.

So they may not be ECNL quality - whatever that is - but they are better than plenty of local ECNL clubs.

This means BRYC will soon be replaced or they now have club to compete with on their level.

Anonymous wrote:Neither is your face.

Lol. I’ll take the criticism.

Neither is your face.

Skyline is no where near ECNL quality. Neither is BRYC.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is a good move for both. Now we need a Virginia Beach team added to ECNL.

you must think that everyone gets a trophy for participating. There isn't that many "elite" teams and also this does is water down the league so it will be a bigger ccl.

Huh? You must not know geography. This isn't adding another northern virginia team and diluting talent. There might be a kid or two Charlottesville kids that travel to join Richmond, but not many. Skyline has decent teams. Not really sure what you are talking about.

I know my geography. It's like CCL but a bigger scale. Crappy teams still play CCL 1 because you have to have a team in the top division. BRYC is one example. Not drawing in the players for whatever reason, but they continue to play ECNL. They're not moving them out to ECNL-R where they probably are better off. And yes i believe that NOVA parents believe all their kids should be playing at an "elite" level. So there is a dilution of talent.

ECNL is the "it" league for the moment. That will change, it might take three or four years, but it will happen. If you don't believe me, look back at the posts from 2017 and see what leagues people were talking about.

I agree that they need to find a way to keep the level of competition sufficiently high or the league will decay as others have done before it. If there is no way to relegate or cut teams then eventually the better clubs get fed up and start a new league. It's a cycle that will continue until there is either promotion / relegation, or a league which is willing to fire its own members for non-performance.

That said, I think Skyline might be good enough to belong in ECNL anyway. They're certainly better than plenty of ECNL clubs today. Time will tell I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is a good move for both. Now we need a Virginia Beach team added to ECNL.

you must think that everyone gets a trophy for participating. There isn't that many "elite" teams and also this does is water down the league so it will be a bigger ccl.

Huh? You must not know geography. This isn't adding another northern virginia team and diluting talent. There might be a kid or two Charlottesville kids that travel to join Richmond, but not many. Skyline has decent teams. Not really sure what you are talking about.

I know my geography. It's like CCL but a bigger scale. Crappy teams still play CCL 1 because you have to have a team in the top division. BRYC is one example. Not drawing in the players for whatever reason, but they continue to play ECNL. They're not moving them out to ECNL-R where they probably are better off. And yes i believe that NOVA parents believe all their kids should be playing at an "elite" level. So there is a dilution of talent.

ECNL is the "it" league for the moment. That will change, it might take three or four years, but it will happen. If you don't believe me, look back at the posts from 2017 and see what leagues people were talking about.

Wait, so now that you do know where Charlottesville is located and that it isn’t part of NOVA, what are you complaining about? Skyline joining ECNL is bad for who exactly?

Bad for ECNL. A weak club

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is a good move for both. Now we need a Virginia Beach team added to ECNL.

Legacy might be a better candidate.

It’s called CCL

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a good move for both. Now we need a Virginia Beach team added to ECNL.

Legacy might be a better candidate.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is a good move for both. Now we need a Virginia Beach team added to ECNL.

you must think that everyone gets a trophy for participating. There isn't that many "elite" teams and also this does is water down the league so it will be a bigger ccl.

Huh? You must not know geography. This isn't adding another northern virginia team and diluting talent. There might be a kid or two Charlottesville kids that travel to join Richmond, but not many. Skyline has decent teams. Not really sure what you are talking about.

I know my geography. It's like CCL but a bigger scale. Crappy teams still play CCL 1 because you have to have a team in the top division. BRYC is one example. Not drawing in the players for whatever reason, but they continue to play ECNL. They're not moving them out to ECNL-R where they probably are better off. And yes i believe that NOVA parents believe all their kids should be playing at an "elite" level. So there is a dilution of talent.

ECNL is the "it" league for the moment. That will change, it might take three or four years, but it will happen. If you don't believe me, look back at the posts from 2017 and see what leagues people were talking about.

Wait, so now that you do know where Charlottesville is located and that it isn’t part of NOVA, what are you complaining about? Skyline joining ECNL is bad for who exactly?