'03 Advanced Power Rankings

The following poll is based on nearly 600 lines of scoring data from TGPL, SDL, EAL Gold, EAL Silver, DIAL Gold, DIAL Silver, PTCL Gold and Silver, and PTCL U10 from 1/1/12 to date.
Also, considered were the following tournaments:
Winter Cup, Winter Classic, Freedom Cup, TGPL Tourn., and Lightning Cup.
Head-to-head matchups, strength of schedule, success vs. common opponent(s), and goal differential values were all considered. This program is not FBR. It was designed to compliment FBR and the Human Rankings and to provide for a 'BCS' like ranking system.
(Records are in W/L/T format)

1 SRSA '03 17-0-0
2 Dallas Texans South 03 (Adams) 19-0-1
3 Sting 03 Scarfone 8-2-1
4 Fever Black 03 14-1-0
5 Sting 03 Mendoza 10-5-1
6 Juventus Black 03G 13-1-0
7 Cosmos 03 Black 6-10-1
8 Polaris Black 03G Curiel 5-10-3
8 FC Dallas 03G Premier 2-6-1
10 Liverpool 03G Keegan 4-4-1
11 Liverpool 03 Dalglish 10-5-3
12 Sting West 03 (Davis) 7-6-2
13 Liverpool 03G Whelen 4-1-3
14 Sting 03 Goodman 1-4-0
15 AFC 03 Black 4-4-4
16 Dallas Texans FTW Hernandez 4-3-2
17 Sparta FC 03 3-4-2
18 Vitesse Dallas 03 7-2-0
19 GSSC Thunder Black 3-3
20 D'Feeters 03(Colon) 3-1-1
21 FC Dallas 03G Ledbetter 5-6-2
22 FWFC 03 4-4-1
23 Odyssey 03 Gold 2-5-1
24 Mustangs 03 3-10-3
25 Sting Parker 03 2-3-3
26 Legacy FC 3-3-0
27 Triumph FC 03 2-5-1
28 Solar Chelsea 03G Canevari 2-2-1
29 Mutiny FC 03 White(Andiel) 0-2-3
30 AYSES 03 Gold 2-2
31 Liverpool 03 Rush 2-5-1
32 TX Spirit 03 6-2-1
33 Odyssey 03G Blue 1-4-1
34 AMERICAN EAGLES 03 (GARRETT) 3-1-2
35 Liverpool 03 Case 2-4-1
36 Polaris 03 1-5-0
37 Liverpool 03 St.John 1-6-1
38 Lady Aztecs FC 03 2-5-1
39 Sting East 03 (Gutierrez) 0-3-0
40 AMERICAN EAGLES 03 (Duren) 5-0-1

nice job scoop.. dead on.

Good job - 1 question ... how did you account for teams that play up in U10 and compare that to the U9 crowd? Regardless how you did this is pretty representative. Good job.

It's clear that there is a big gap after #6 ... you could easily rearrange teams between #7 - 15 and have a strong argument. That list is so fluid and really depends on who is hot at the time.

1 thing does jump out ... obviously TGPL is the strongest league, but then shows EAL (Gold) as the #2 league followed by Primetime West (Gold).

The teams playing up are Cosmos, Polaris Black, SRSA, and Sparta....and all had common opponents. Without alot of knowledge of the 02s opponents, it was difficult to put a value on those games. Let's just say those teams were given certain recognition for playing up in addition to their 03 league. All 4 of those team ranked very high.
Odyssey 03 Gold is playing in a U10 9v9 league and they too were recognized, however, much more info is needed on their 02 opponents. Didn't have the luxury of common opponent there. Odyssey 03 Gold may climb significantly in future rankings. We'll see.
I agree with your comment on 7 thru 15 and who's hot...and that's exactly why you see LP Keegan jumping to #10.

scoop99 wrote:The teams playing up are Cosmos, Polaris Black, SRSA, and Sparta....

Odyssey was the other that I was thinking of because they are a bit of an enigma. It's a very good team that nobody knows about just because they seem content to stay in the background -- you rarely see them in tournaments. Not sure why. I've seen them play for several years now (although not in the last 6 months) and the team has stayed together from what I know. There are several Primetime tournaments coming up so that may be an opportunity to gauge that talent (assuming they play their "top" squad).

And not that it matters much but DT South plays in EAL U10 Silver (and is undefeated). I don't think that it will affect the rankings much but you never know. Surely adds cushion between #2 and #3.

You mention LP Keegan ... A very small squad (11 players) that was hit by injuries from Nov - March. On top of that, the coach resigned 1 week before the spring season started. Needless to say, it took a while for the coach/player chemistry to start to come together. It's a very athletic team that's starting to learn to play soccer. I think that's what has caused their inconsistency over the last 4 months. It will be interesting to see how they finish out the spring season and compete in tournaments.

Thanks for doing this. Does this reflect yesterday's games from TGPL?

Actually, that is a very good question. I had stated that the data was up to date thru today, but I did not have access to yesterday's TGPL scores. I will include those in an update in a couple of weeks.
Any upsets?

Sting Mendoza 1 - Cosmos 3

2 top Mendoza players were not there.....just saying

Thanks for doing this!

At some time will you add in the DIAL Silver teams that are not listed?

D'Feeters (MBemba)
Sting Blue Solis
Lady Titans
Sting White
Mutiny Maroon
Rockets

There are actually 76 '03 teams that were in this data set. It just gets too convoluted to figure anything past the top 40.
The DIAL Silver teams were included. With some tournament wins and/or improved 'strength of schedule' games, they can make their way into the Top40.

Zidane wrote:2 top Mendoza players were not there.....just saying

Were they with Scarfone or just out?

Cosmos were missing 3 top players as well...

There are actually 76 '03 teams that were in this data set. It just gets too convoluted to figure anything past the top 40.
The DIAL Silver teams were included. With some tournament wins and/or improved 'stregnth of schedule' games, they can make their way into the Top40.

Makes sense. Thanks again!

MaskedWriter wrote:

scoop99 wrote:The teams playing up are Cosmos, Polaris Black, SRSA, and Sparta....

Odyssey was the other that I was thinking of because they are a bit of an enigma. It's a very good team that nobody knows about just because they seem content to stay in the background -- you rarely see them in tournaments. Not sure why. I've seen them play for several years now (although not in the last 6 months) and the team has stayed together from what I know. There are several Primetime tournaments coming up so that may be an opportunity to gauge that talent (assuming they play their "top" squad).

And not that it matters much but DT South plays in EAL U10 Silver (and is undefeated). I don't think that it will affect the rankings much but you never know. Surely adds cushion between #2 and #3.

You mention LP Keegan ... A very small squad (11 players) that was hit by injuries from Nov - March. On top of that, the coach resigned 1 week before the spring season started. Needless to say, it took a while for the coach/player chemistry to start to come together. It's a very athletic team that's starting to learn to play soccer. I think that's what has caused their inconsistency over the last 4 months. It will be interesting to see how they finish out the spring season and compete in tournaments.

I think the LP Keegan would improve even more if they didn't play Rec on Sat and Academy on Sun. They would definitely benefit to doing straight academy imo.


I often wonder why also Odyssey dosen't play in tourny's or atleast in tourny's that have actual competition. Seems every tourny i see them in they play in the least amount of teams in them.

jj4mel wrote:

Zidane wrote:2 top Mendoza players were not there.....just saying

Were they with Scarfone or just out?

Just out....

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jj4mel wrote:

Zidane wrote:2 top Mendoza players were not there.....just saying

Were they with Scarfone or just out?

Just out....quote]

Wasn't necessarily trying to be a smart a$$. Just know Searls and Scarfone have been picking up players from the other Sting teams. Understand missing soccer for other DD interests. My DD missed Saturday's game vs Polaris '02 for a bball tourney.

Scarfone has used a few "guess" players from other Sting teams; however, only if it does not conflict with their other Sting schedule. (similar to other clubs where players get extra touches over the weekend)

MaskedWriter wrote:
Odyssey was the other that I was thinking of because they are a bit of an enigma. It's a very good team that nobody knows about just because they seem content to stay in the background -- you rarely see them in tournaments. Not sure why. I've seen them play for several years now (although not in the last 6 months) and the team has stayed together from what I know. There are several Primetime tournaments coming up so that may be an opportunity to gauge that talent (assuming they play their "top" squad).

This team has not had much turnover. Their core group of girls has been together for some time now (almost 3 full years). When my DD played for them for 2 years, there were several people that didn't want to travel much for games. Most of the kids on this team are from the Keller/Roanoke/Southlake area. I think this is probably still a reason for where they play and also what tournaments they play in. Hopefully they will surface more in the future. They have a strong group of girls and an excellent goalie.


Scoop99, thanks for putting the rankings together.

great work Scoop99!!

From 10-18/19 its a toss up, including Oddesey Gold.

Thanks. You are absolutely correct about 10-19
It's unbelievably close in that group! And there are some really good teams in the 20-30 range...some that receive alot of talk in this forum
..a couple in particular will see the top20 once they get some quality wins under their belts.
I say to them
"patience grasshopper"

Updated Power Rankings will be made available as soon as PTCL gets their scores up....they're getting like DIAL with their updates

...still waiting on some scores...and they are very important games for the

13-30 range. Sorry for the delay.