PPL 1 Spots

epicgoodsport wrote:Play Goncalves or Pino's team.  See how you do.

heyyouguys wrote:So... if someone could condense all this info into a summary that would be nice... because im confused. Who is suspected to be in d1, who in d2. Are d3/d4 going to be for all the teams in the QT?

Marvelousmar wrote:

Beast_04 wrote:Barca had one guest player but the rest were all regulars.  There were some position changes, so some of the boys weren't used to where they were playing.  They played really well overall, and hopefully we can carry that into the placement tournament this weekend.

That was our 4th game of the weekend too, and all of the teams we played were in higher divisions than us, so as Marvelousmar said the comparison may be "a little" unwarranted, it is not completely off base.    I am a little biased though.

Hey Beast you know I love you guys.  That is why I said "a little"  and you know I am a little biased considering how the result of our last match went.....( Yes I will never let you live it down until the end of my days in North Texas)  

I know Azzurri well and I am starting to get to know you guys, love your style and the way you play.  But I when it is 40C and a team has 1 guy on the bench vs 5 guys on the bench at the 4th game.  Fatigue factor has to go to Azzurri.

All the teams you played were in higher divisions.  I am not quite sure about that statement.  Texas Sporting White was a brand new team the game against them was their first game together they had guest to help out in the heat, but the coach was still figuring out half the kids names.  Texans North is not the same team from last year with maybe 6 -8 kids from their team from last year.  FC White was a higher division team but from quality of players I think your team has significantly more skilled players.  So the only higher division team ( and divisions bavisions in my word) Higher Quality team you played was Azzurri with 1 sub.  The result was a good one but not enough to try to draw a comparison.  My opinion again if I were king for a day is that out of the 50 Plano teams you guys fall somewhere in the top 15.  The three Plano teams you played probably currently do not. (One of them is trying to get into the top 15 but then again I have a soft spot for one of those teams as well)  

I think I try to provide an unbiased opinion of what I saw this weekend.  I saw you guys play the Texans and you were the better side. Guests or no guests, it's tournaments in summer everyone has guests except at QT and Placement.  So the rule says 5 guests players and as long as they are in the correct age group you will never here me complaining about guest players.    The ball movement of your group was great and keep doing what your doing.  
Good luck during the season.

foghornleghorn wrote:

Marvelousmar wrote:

Beast_04 wrote:Barca had one guest player but the rest were all regulars.  There were some position changes, so some of the boys weren't used to where they were playing.  They played really well overall, and hopefully we can carry that into the placement tournament this weekend.

That was our 4th game of the weekend too, and all of the teams we played were in higher divisions than us, so as Marvelousmar said the comparison may be "a little" unwarranted, it is not completely off base.    I am a little biased though.

Hey Beast you know I love you guys.  That is why I said "a little"  and you know I am a little biased considering how the result of our last match went.....( Yes I will never let you live it down until the end of my days in North Texas)  

I know Azzurri well and I am starting to get to know you guys, love your style and the way you play.  But I when it is 40C and a team has 1 guy on the bench vs 5 guys on the bench at the 4th game.  Fatigue factor has to go to Azzurri.

All the teams you played were in higher divisions.  I am not quite sure about that statement.  Texas Sporting White was a brand new team the game against them was their first game together they had guest to help out in the heat, but the coach was still figuring out half the kids names.  Texans North is not the same team from last year with maybe 6 -8 kids from their team from last year.  FC White was a higher division team but from quality of players I think your team has significantly more skilled players.  So the only higher division team ( and divisions bavisions in my word) Higher Quality team you played was Azzurri with 1 sub.  The result was a good one but not enough to try to draw a comparison.  My opinion again if I were king for a day is that out of the 50 Plano teams you guys fall somewhere in the top 15.  The three Plano teams you played probably currently do not. (One of them is trying to get into the top 15 but then again I have a soft spot for one of those teams as well)  

I think I try to provide an unbiased opinion of what I saw this weekend.  I saw you guys play the Texans and you were the better side. Guests or no guests, it's tournaments in summer everyone has guests except at QT and Placement.  So the rule says 5 guests players and as long as they are in the correct age group you will never here me complaining about guest players.    The ball movement of your group was great and keep doing what your doing.  
Good luck during the season.

I think the first tournament post-July 1 is not a good gauge upon which to measure a team, be it a newly promoted Classic D2 team or a 3rd place PPL3 team.  It was a good game.  Azzurri was missing some key players and had only one sub.  Barca played well and it was probably everyones first humid & hot game with our mild summer thus far.  Should be an interesting soccer season!

Marvelousmar wrote:Mm.  So now the interesting math begins.  Do you give everyone 10 points in that bracke thus providing 2nd place a solid shot at PPL 3.  Or do you do some sort of percentage of points thing.  Not quit sure what they will do.