Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is the DMVlax 1st team, 2nd teams, etc, rankings any good? Not sure how madlax owner is able to put a credible list together. No way this guy has seen everyone play. He has an agenda - picking favorites and boosting madlax.
Anyone putting a list like together will have at least some biases. You may not like the guy but CM is as knowledgeable as anyone about all the HS programs and players around here, through his club program (his own guys and also the guys the play against) and he also is announcer for 1st Amendment sports and covers a lot of the local HS games.
So it's never going to be a perfect list but it's not worthless either.
Whatever you think of CM, his DMVlax analysis is actually pretty good most of the time. I don’t agree with everything he says for my son’s team, but his knowledge of the landscape for different teams is pretty impressive.
I don’t disagree generally - the team write ups are thorough and he would be in a position to know. It breaks down at the player level solely bc the guy can’t help himself from being either petty - e.g. deliberately avoiding mentions of players who “used” him and left for other clubs, or nepo - putting his own very undersized and mediocre kids in the ostensibly objective team reviews. If you can navigate around that, it’s decent info.
Anonymous wrote:I think it's funny how much work the dcum crowd think CM actually does at ML. The ML coaches run the poll and do season previews, they know the top players in the area from playing against them and coaching them at Nike Nationals.
Anonymous wrote:Is the DMVlax 1st team, 2nd teams, etc, rankings any good? Not sure how madlax owner is able to put a credible list together. No way this guy has seen everyone play. He has an agenda - picking favorites and boosting madlax.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is the DMVlax 1st team, 2nd teams, etc, rankings any good? Not sure how madlax owner is able to put a credible list together. No way this guy has seen everyone play. He has an agenda - picking favorites and boosting madlax.
Anyone putting a list like together will have at least some biases. You may not like the guy but CM is as knowledgeable as anyone about all the HS programs and players around here, through his club program (his own guys and also the guys the play against) and he also is announcer for 1st Amendment sports and covers a lot of the local HS games.
So it's never going to be a perfect list but it's not worthless either.
Whatever you think of CM, his DMVlax analysis is actually pretty good most of the time. I don’t agree with everything he says for my son’s team, but his knowledge of the landscape for different teams is pretty impressive.