SDL Division 1 02B Season Stats

I was bored...and I am an insomniac so here you go everyone, chew on this. Also note that the formatting looks a little wierd but you get the idea.

Season Records:
AYSES Gold Loftin - 2W 0T 5L GD: - 18 Pts = 6
DT Scott City - 6W 0T 1L GD: + 12 Pts = 18
DT Scott United - 3W 0T 4L GD: - 3 Pts = 9
DT South Adames - 7W 0T 0L GD: + 40 Pts = 21
FCD Goncalves Blue - 4W 2T 1L GD: + 5 Pts = 14
FCD Goncalves Red - 0W 0T 7L GD: - 25 Pts = 0
FCD Depew - 0W 0T 5L GD: - 10 Pts = 0
FCD Snell Predator - 3W 2T 2L GD: - 8 Pts = 11
FCD Snell Premier - 2W 1T 4L GD: - 10 Pts = 7
FCD Snell Premier M - 3W 1T 3L GD: - 2 Pts = 10
Liverpool Fagen - 4W 2T 1L GD: + 10 Pts = 14
Liverpool Souter - 4W 0T 3L GD: + 2 Pts = 12
Solar Renner Maroon - 4W 0T 3L GD: + 6 Pts = 12
Solar Renner Dynamo K - 2W 2T 2L GD: + 7 Pts = 8
Solar Renner Dynamo M - 4W 1T 1L GD: + 12 Pts = 13
Solar Stricker White - 6W 0T 1L GD: + 3 Pts = 18
TFC Haylock - 0W 0T 7L GD: - 19 Pts = 0
TFC Larry - 1W 1T 5L GD: + 2 Pts = 4

Rankings Winning Percentage SoS (2xOWP/3 + OOWP/3):
21 pts - DT South Adames 1.000 .4398
18 pts - DT Scott City (+12) .8571 .3805
18 pts - Solar Stricker White (+3 reported) .8571 .4444
14 pts - Liverpool Fagen (+10) .5714 .3867
14 pts - FCD Goncalves Blue (+5) .5714 .4532
13 pts - Solar Renner Dynamo M .6667 .3926
12 pts - Solar Renner Maroon (+6) .5714 .4476
12 pts - Liverpool Souter (+2) .5714 .4164
11 pts - FCD Snell Predator .4286 .4833
10 pts - FCD Snell Premier M .4286 .4393
9 pts - DT Scott United .4286 .4384
8 pts - Solar Renner Dynamo K .3333 .4282
7 pts - FCD Snell Premier .2857 .5155
6 pts - AYSES Gold Loftin .2857 .4274
4 pts - TFC Larry .1429 .4866
0 pts - FCD Depew (-10) .0000 .5123
0 pts - TFC Haylock (-19) .0000 .5060
0 pts - FCD Goncalves Red (-25) .0000 .4739

Strength of Schedule (2/3 Opponents' Winning Percentage, 1/3 Opponents' Opponents' Winning Percentage)

My observations:

Texans South is still the top dog and may be pulling away from everyone else

I haven't seen DT Scott City play, but had become impressed by their results till I see they have compiled that record against the weakest SoS in D1

A lot of teams closely bunched together in the middle of the pack and most of them can beat each other any given day. Many of them are inconsistent from week to week or play to the level of their competition which is probably pretty typical for 9 year old boys.

I don't put much stock in Solar Renner's team results because it doesn't seem like these are 3 distinct teams. For me, Solar Renner has 10W 3T 6L. I think if Renner actually separated his teams based on ability he would probably have a D1 team that is closer to Texans South vs 3 middle-of-the-road teams.

AYSES Gold has tumbled a bit this season. Last fall many considered them a really good team grouping them with Solar Stricker White, Fagen and Solar Dynamo, but they've struggled to get the results this spring.

Why do FCD Red and TFC Haylock insist on playing D1? I don't think either team has won a game last fall or this spring in SDL. Wouldn't it be more fun for the boys to compete in D2? I especially don't understand this situation for FCD Red. Goncalves has another really good team in FCD Blue. Play one team in D1 and the other in D2 similar to Stricker's approach.

FCD Depew may be another candidate to play as D2 next season.

TFC Larry has struggled to get results this season, but they moved up from D2 and have the 4th toughest schedule in D1. That's tough!

I still think Snell should drop one of his teams to D2 as well, but I'm pretty confident he won't do it.

Interesting stats. Good job, must have been a long nite.
Ayses used to be a tough team to beat, now only 2 wins.
DT Scott City, is this a new team? How long have they been together. It would be nice to see them play against DT South.

There was 1 Dallas Texans Scott team last fall in SDL D1. They had 2W 1T 5L in Fall 2010 SDL.

I'll add a little insider information if no one minds...
AYSES has struggled for results this season but quite a bit of that is due to them having 18 kids and rotating through players. Not all their players are D1 players and they will be better served next season playing in Div2 or 3 next season when the Gold team plays in Div1. Certainly not an excuse, just an honest statement of fact. They've played each team close (except Texans south), regardless of what the final score might say, in fact they were up 3-1 at the half against Renner before somehow allowing 7 goals in 15 minutes to lose that game and make it look like a completely different scoreline. It's hard at the younger ages to just look at results and decide a team's ability, but that's all I had to go on with what I posted.

Also, there is so much turnover between teams (Renner, Snell, Goncalves, Scott) that I really don't know which team is which. I don't think any coach actually has two or three separate rosters, I'm pretty sure that they change for each game if I'm not mistaken. If anyone knows about Scott or Goncalves then that'd be nice to know, just curious.

debit wrote:My observations:

Texans South is still the top dog and may be pulling away from everyone else

I haven't seen DT Scott City play, but had become impressed by their results till I see they have compiled that record against the weakest SoS in D1

A lot of teams closely bunched together in the middle of the pack and most of them can beat each other any given day. Many of them are inconsistent from week to week or play to the level of their competition which is probably pretty typical for 9 year old boys.

I don't put much stock in Solar Renner's team results because it doesn't seem like these are 3 distinct teams. For me, Solar Renner has 10W 3T 6L. I think if Renner actually separated his teams based on ability he would probably have a D1 team that is closer to Texans South vs 3 middle-of-the-road teams.

AYSES Gold has tumbled a bit this season. Last fall many considered them a really good team grouping them with Solar Stricker White, Fagen and Solar Dynamo, but they've struggled to get the results this spring.

Why do FCD Red and TFC Haylock insist on playing D1? I don't think either team has won a game last fall or this spring in SDL. Wouldn't it be more fun for the boys to compete in D2? I especially don't understand this situation for FCD Red. Goncalves has another really good team in FCD Blue. Play one team in D1 and the other in D2 similar to Stricker's approach.

FCD Depew may be another candidate to play as D2 next season.

TFC Larry has struggled to get results this season, but they moved up from D2 and have the 4th toughest schedule in D1. That's tough!

I still think Snell should drop one of his teams to D2 as well, but I'm pretty confident he won't do it.

Nice observations Debit. You are absolutely correct in regards to some of these teams going down a level. While this sounds bad and not trying to knock on these teams but it may be better for their development.

In regards to Renner's teams. You never know what team you will be playing that weekend since he mixes his players on all 3 teams.

I haven't seen Texans Scott play but by looking at their results they seem to be a good team. I would like to see them play DT South 02.

Now AYSES was considered a top U9 team going in to this season based on last season's results. Have they lost some players?

I have seen a lot of movement of players between teams this season. This may be the reason why so many changes in rankings.

There still one more full year of playing around with these teams before players make up their mind for the time being.

It seems DTS took some players from AYSES.
It will be interesting to see movement during the next few months.
Some 02teams have 03 players that eventually will stay with 03 teams.
Some 01 teams of 02's that will do the same.

Offside wrote:It seems DTS took some players from AYSES.
It will be interesting to see movement during the next few months.
Some 02teams have 03 players that eventually will stay with 03 teams.
Some 01 teams of 02's that will do the same.

Hey Offside who took some of the AYSES players? Which Dallas Texans team?

debit wrote:My observations:

Texans South is still the top dog and may be pulling away from everyone else

I haven't seen DT Scott City play, but had become impressed by their results till I see they have compiled that record against the weakest SoS in D1

A lot of teams closely bunched together in the middle of the pack and most of them can beat each other any given day. Many of them are inconsistent from week to week or play to the level of their competition which is probably pretty typical for 9 year old boys.

I don't put much stock in Solar Renner's team results because it doesn't seem like these are 3 distinct teams. For me, Solar Renner has 10W 3T 6L. I think if Renner actually separated his teams based on ability he would probably have a D1 team that is closer to Texans South vs 3 middle-of-the-road teams.

AYSES Gold has tumbled a bit this season. Last fall many considered them a really good team grouping them with Solar Stricker White, Fagen and Solar Dynamo, but they've struggled to get the results this spring.

Why do FCD Red and TFC Haylock insist on playing D1? I don't think either team has won a game last fall or this spring in SDL. Wouldn't it be more fun for the boys to compete in D2? I especially don't understand this situation for FCD Red. Goncalves has another really good team in FCD Blue. Play one team in D1 and the other in D2 similar to Stricker's approach.

FCD Depew may be another candidate to play as D2 next season.

TFC Larry has struggled to get results this season, but they moved up from D2 and have the 4th toughest schedule in D1. That's tough!

I still think Snell should drop one of his teams to D2 as well, but I'm pretty confident he won't do it.

Very good overview.

Agree with your take.

DT South is the best at this point.

The real questions come in the middle and the bottom of the rankings.

I know the better Goncalves team has 2003s playing with them. Does he have an 03 team? Solar, you never know which kids will be out there when you play them so who knows with them. Dynamo M vs Snell this weekend. Pick: M. K plays Fagen. Pick: Fegan.

FCD Depew is a Div 2 team without question. Same for TFC Haylock. We played against Haylock in a tournament last Fall (he had them playing up against 01s) and they have no business playing in Div 1. I'm sure he's a good coach but give the boys a chance...4 goals all season. Depew did better last Fall - Maybe Snell 'developed' a few more players. Haylock vs Depew this weekend. Battle to stay in Div 1. Pick: Depew

Not sure about TFC Larry. How did they do in Div 2 last year? They are set to play DT South this weekend. Pick DT South

futbolista wrote:

Offside wrote:It seems DTS took some players from AYSES.
It will be interesting to see movement during the next few months.
Some 02teams have 03 players that eventually will stay with 03 teams.
Some 01 teams of 02's that will do the same.

Hey Offside who took some of the AYSES players? Which Dallas Texans team?

DTS 02 Adames, I heard, got a few and Solar Dynamo a few.
If true that would explain why AYSES didn't do too well.

DT South still has the same roster as last season. No Ayses players there.

Soccerdad79 wrote:DT South still has the same roster as last season. No Ayses players there.

That's correct Soccerdad79 no AYSES players on DT South 02.

That's correct, there have been two AYSES players who have left but neither went to DTS. When the coaching change occurred some parents were understandably upset and went elsewhere.

txsnowman wrote:I'll add a little insider information if no one minds...
AYSES has struggled for results this season but quite a bit of that is due to them having 18 kids and rotating through players. Not all their players are D1 players and they will be better served next season playing in Div2 or 3 next season when the Gold team plays in Div1. Certainly not an excuse, just an honest statement of fact. They've played each team close (except Texans south), regardless of what the final score might say, in fact they were up 3-1 at the half against Renner before somehow allowing 7 goals in 15 minutes to lose that game and make it look like a completely different scoreline. It's hard at the younger ages to just look at results and decide a team's ability, but that's all I had to go on with what I posted.

Also, there is so much turnover between teams (Renner, Snell, Goncalves, Scott) that I really don't know which team is which. I don't think any coach actually has two or three separate rosters, I'm pretty sure that they change for each game if I'm not mistaken. If anyone knows about Scott or Goncalves then that'd be nice to know, just curious.

Actually Goncalves has one team the other one is a mix of '02 & '03 team coaching by a parent. About Scott mixing the players like Renner & Snell.

I thought this season went well for most all teams due to the high level of competition. With the exception of teams that played the bottom 3 or 4 teams and those that played DTS, the scores were usually pretty close. Like Debit said, inconsistency at this age is to be expected. Looking back at the scores, you never knew who would win a certain match based on past history. I like that the teams are close as that creates better competition which is better for us all. Looking forward to some fun scrimmages with many of you in the off season!

Those 2 Ayses players now play for Liverpool. One of those kids are my wife's cousin. Liverpool is a pretty decent team.

IMHO...The stats at this age don't really tell much about the teams or players. But it does say a lot about the coaches. A coach who has had the same group of players for a number of seasons should be improving in skill and ranking. You can tell when a coach has reached his potential. The team stagnates. At that time, players should start looking for a new team. Am I mistaken in thinking this? Looks like DTS has an excellent program. Those coaches who have the same kids and can't seem to improve might want to take a second look at their program and make some changes.