WAGS posted their Fall 2015 division structures yesterday http://www.wagsl.com/div_structures/index_E.html
There is just not a lot of quality left in this league, now that ECNL, CCL, NPL, EDP etc has drawn top teams/clubs away. Taking a quick look at the projected gotsoccer flight values (if they were calculated today) for the Division 1 groupings:
U14 = 810
- 10 teams in this group
- only 2 teams ranked in top 10%
U15 = 612
- 6 teams in this group
- only 1 team ranked in top 10%
U16 = 1139
- 5 teams in this group
- only 1 team ranked in top 5%
U17 = 1890
- 5 teams in this group
- only 1 team ranked in top 2% (and they're playing up)
U18 = 452
- 6 teams in this group
- no teams ranked in top 15%
Obviously those will change some after pre-season tournaments, but there isn't likely to be any significant jump. Even if you look at adding the MD sit-out teams into these divisions, there aren't any highly-ranked teams that would impact these flight values.
Another interesting thing is that if the highly-ranked teams in each of these flights win their divisions, none of them will earn any points because of their 20% deduction. Those teams won't be challenged at all on a weekly basis.
There is just not a lot of quality left in this league, now that ECNL, CCL, NPL, EDP etc has drawn top teams/clubs away. Taking a quick look at the projected gotsoccer flight values (if they were calculated today) for the Division 1 groupings:
U14 = 810
- 10 teams in this group
- only 2 teams ranked in top 10%
U15 = 612
- 6 teams in this group
- only 1 team ranked in top 10%
U16 = 1139
- 5 teams in this group
- only 1 team ranked in top 5%
U17 = 1890
- 5 teams in this group
- only 1 team ranked in top 2% (and they're playing up)
U18 = 452
- 6 teams in this group
- no teams ranked in top 15%
Obviously those will change some after pre-season tournaments, but there isn't likely to be any significant jump. Even if you look at adding the MD sit-out teams into these divisions, there aren't any highly-ranked teams that would impact these flight values.
Another interesting thing is that if the highly-ranked teams in each of these flights win their divisions, none of them will earn any points because of their 20% deduction. Those teams won't be challenged at all on a weekly basis.
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