Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Let me clarify....good older teams have depth. They can sub without causing a decline in play. Most younger teams cannot.
Any team which loses its best player will suffer some degree of decline obviously. But the top teams in the area can sub multiple players and still play well and win games at all age groups - not just U17 and above.
This.. Seems like the weaker teams in the area have 7-8 players that could play on any team; then there's a cliff. And the cliff starts within the starting lineup. The stronger teams can swap in and out with no performance decline. They have 15+ players that are all pretty good.
7-8 is high. 4-5 maybe
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Let me clarify....good older teams have depth. They can sub without causing a decline in play. Most younger teams cannot.
Any team which loses its best player will suffer some degree of decline obviously. But the top teams in the area can sub multiple players and still play well and win games at all age groups - not just U17 and above.
This.. Seems like the weaker teams in the area have 7-8 players that could play on any team; then there's a cliff. And the cliff starts within the starting lineup. The stronger teams can swap in and out with no performance decline. They have 15+ players that are all pretty good.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Let me clarify....good older teams have depth. They can sub without causing a decline in play. Most younger teams cannot.
Any team which loses its best player will suffer some degree of decline obviously. But the top teams in the area can sub multiple players and still play well and win games at all age groups - not just U17 and above.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regarding the results posted above, I think the ECNL clubs are only playing 6 matches against each other (U13, U14, U15, U16, U17, U18/19) not 7.
Yeah - you're right. Must have double counted one age group. Hopefully this is better (it doesn't really change the conclusion):
Arlington (W12 D4 L2)
vs VDA W4 D1 L1
vs McLean W3 D2 L1
vs Loudoun W5 D1 L0
BRYC (W4 D2 L12)
vs McLean W0 D2 L4
vs Richmond W1 D0 L5
vs VDA W3 D0 L3
Loudoun (W1 D3 L14)
vs Richmond W1 D0 L5
vs VDA W0 D2 L4
vs Arlington W0 D1 L5
McLean (W5 D5 L4)
vs BRYC W4 D2 L0
vs Arlington W1 D2 L3
vs Richmond W0 D1 L1
Richmond (W11 D1 L2)
vs Loudoun W5 D0 L1
vs BRYC W5 D0 L1
vs McLean W1 D1 L0
VDA (W8 D3 L7)
vs Arlington W1 D1 L4
vs Loudoun W4 D2
vs BRYC W3 D0 L3
The match results were not correctly recorded on the ECNL boys website. your data source is not reliable.
Anonymous wrote:Let me clarify....good older teams have depth. They can sub without causing a decline in play. Most younger teams cannot.