I got this summers LastPlanet BOYS Tournament Guide up based on the database of tournament matches played in the Pacific NW last year. This gives you a summary the strength of the teams in that tournament (and levels if the tournament has multiple) to help you choose from the many tournaments in WA/OR/ID, whether you play in the lower divisions or the upper. For very strong teams, there's also a few CA tournaments listed but it's heavily skewed towards the top end. You can use the table when playing up in age too (in order to get suitable opponents in smaller tournaments for example).
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3...2013-2014.html
and in left nav box in http://lastplanetranking.************ under LP Tools
How to use.
#1 Look up the estimate of your 2014-2015 strength using the widget in the tournament guide. So say you were U12 last season, you need an estimate of your U13 strength (next u level up).
Look up widget here: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3...team_rank.html
#2 Click on the 'median strength' column in tournament tables to sort by strength
#3 Scroll down to find all the tournaments/divisions that are about +/-100 of your 2014-2015 strength
#4 Click on the tournament names to do an 'eye-ball' test. This takes you to a page that shows all the teams in that division last year. They'll be a year older than your team, but you should be able to get a sense of the types/levels of teams that entered that.
** if you are using Firefox, click on median strength and then click on age to get median strengths sorted within an age group. Doesn't work in Chrome or IE though. Or you can use the method below to do sorting:
Second way to use
#1 Look up your 2014-2015 strength as above
#2 Download the tournament file (link on tournament guide) and open in Excel
#3 Use data:sort to sort by age and then by median strength (or date and median strength...)
Have fun on the pitch this summer! Only boys at the moment, crunching the girls U11-U14 data will take another weekend.
--LP
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3...2013-2014.html
and in left nav box in http://lastplanetranking.************ under LP Tools
How to use.
#1 Look up the estimate of your 2014-2015 strength using the widget in the tournament guide. So say you were U12 last season, you need an estimate of your U13 strength (next u level up).
Look up widget here: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3...team_rank.html
#2 Click on the 'median strength' column in tournament tables to sort by strength
#3 Scroll down to find all the tournaments/divisions that are about +/-100 of your 2014-2015 strength
#4 Click on the tournament names to do an 'eye-ball' test. This takes you to a page that shows all the teams in that division last year. They'll be a year older than your team, but you should be able to get a sense of the types/levels of teams that entered that.
** if you are using Firefox, click on median strength and then click on age to get median strengths sorted within an age group. Doesn't work in Chrome or IE though. Or you can use the method below to do sorting:
Second way to use
#1 Look up your 2014-2015 strength as above
#2 Download the tournament file (link on tournament guide) and open in Excel
#3 Use data:sort to sort by age and then by median strength (or date and median strength...)
Have fun on the pitch this summer! Only boys at the moment, crunching the girls U11-U14 data will take another weekend.
--LP
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