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I don’t pay much attention to it since it is rankings are deeply flawed.

All rankings systems have flaws but this one takes human bias out of the equation by using quantitative metrics only. I will say that they don’t mean anything until July once all the best teams have had a meaningful amount of summer games.

US Club rankings are a joke.

]US Club Lax rankings off?

I don’t pay much attention to it since it is rankings are deeply flawed.[/quote]

All rankings systems have flaws but this one takes human bias out of the equation by using quantitative metrics only. I will say that they don’t mean anything until July once all the best teams have had a meaningful amount of summer games.[/quote]
US Club rankings are a joke.[/quote]

What happened to it? True National, LI Express, West Coast Starz buy it or something? Having a 6-4 team at #5 shows the bias.

Exactly why US club rankings are a joke.

People say the rankings are not biased, I think they are biased towards teams with weak schedules. Winning a game by ten goals has a greater impact on the rankings than strength of schedule impacts. Ratings methodology should reduce to a max of 6-7 goal difference. Also there should be bonus multiplier for winning a game.

Spoken like a person who's team is ranked low. wait until July, Then the cream will rise to the top.

https://www.USCL.com/team_info.php?y=2021&t=103263

Tigers have beaten LI Express 3 times and yet still #2 and behind them. Makes zero sense.

Tigers are top ten, but no where near top five

Would love to understand your rationale?

They beatdown the Crabs this weekend; if the Crabs even get out of their bracket!!

But to be a parent who remembers it being “only 4” tells me your kid did get cut because you remember that number.

Not a fan, but they beat #1 last weekend by a lot and a bunch of times. Also beat the rest of the top teams. Top teams Sweetlax, Crabs, Tigers, Hawks, Stealth

Upstate again!

You must be new to BOTC. Back in the day when Hawks were good enough that people cared about their number of holdbacks, the talking points repeated again and again on this board were "but we only have four" and "sorry your son aint good and cannot compete."

wrong...Tigers and Crabs have never played

How can the crabs and Stealth both be a top team? Don't they share players?

And as a reminder, this guy doesn’t care about the Hawks anymore. 😉

How’s it going at NAL?

From now on you can refer to us as your Towerdaddy!

My youngest son's team played against / beat up Stealth in CT two weeks ago. I'm not one to give Crabs a compliment but rest assured, none of the kids on Stealth would make Crabs, at least at that age group. Definitely did not see any Crabs gear or the beautiful yellow helmets.

VLC doesn’t belong at NAL

Slow your roll.... Everyone is beating the Hawks these days...

Nice try you psycho.

NAL needs to get de turf next year. Tomorrow is going to be a joke.

Can you send the rest of your dads and coaches over tomorrow with your shine box. We need a quick cleanup after the mud today and dragging you through it.

New sheriff didn't last long. Looks like there's an opening thanks to parity at the 26 level now.

This is a troll post. We have more class than that.

As noted earlier, Tiger not even close to top 5. Consolation game Sunday.

Nope….Stealth kids went to 91 Nationals, I mean, 91 Storm.

So the Stealth kids that were playing in big hoco games for the crabs in the spring are now playing 91 storm? If true, that's w.[ChillLaxin] your kids out

Wrong. When is the last time Tiger XXVI Beat Sweetlax upstate, not in the last 2 years for sure. The do seem to have LI Express' number though.

Wrong.

Crabs sure doesn’t have LIE’s number. Guess they need a couple more holdbacks to beat them.

LI Express is the Clear #1 followed by everyone else and it’s not even close.

And LI Express sure has Sweetlax number. Are we ten wins no losses now?

Looks like Crabs needs to go out and recruit some more 16 year olds so they can compete with LI Express.

Same ones playing for crabs in the MD spring league?

Issue is they lost three blowouts to Tigers so they are number 2 behind Tigers ?

The Crabs are a joke. They look like a high school team out there. I can’t believe they came up empty this weekend. I guess it takes more than physical dominance to win lacrosse games.

NAL was the clearest proof that the parity you see in the college game (minus the Terps) is what we have in 2026. Anyone can beat anyone. Sometimes a team has a bad game. Sometimes the ball doesn’t bounce your way or hits a few pipes. Sometimes the refs are atrocious. You can’t tell me the Tigers stink because they didn’t make it to Day 2. They can beat anyone and have beaten Express handily.

Congrats to LI Express on running the gauntlet. They’re a great team. If they go undefeated this summer I’ll come back here and eat my words, but there are a lot of great teams at this age group. We should enjoy it and stop feeding into the fake hype machine of rankings.