14U TEAM RANKING (Bracketologist)updated after ASA STATE

[bracketologist]

Don't see how Firecrackers 95 should be ranked over BS96 and CA96, both these 96 teams are better IMO, both have stronger pitching and defense and have beaten the FC 95 team since moving up to 14s..

The one thing I did learn at SurfCity is that some teams are great friendly and pool play teams... and others have players that only respond to "the bright lights".

I heard a lot of parents staying “but we beat/tied them at a friendly”…… only to lose by 8 or 10 runs in bracket play…..

[Clean_up]

I think YB is trying to say the Rebels were ranked higher than some of the other 96 teams who did better maybe? In any case, thanks for the support, but Bracket is right about teams playing different in friendlies than in tournaments. We beat FC95 in a FRIENDLY during Winter 2-1, a close game and have not seen them since. So, do we deserve to be ranked above them? Not really, based only on that one game.

Being consistently ranked as a top 10 team is just fine, we will just do what we do and hopefully upset a few teams along the way and qualify for Nats..

[bracketologist]

Done.... we now have 38 teams in the 14u poll.

With HS ball starting... time to go watch the 12u.

[RICHARD SKINNER]

Speaking of 12's when's the next "bracky 12U" poll come out? Should be interesting.

[tpallotto36]

Ozone Gold just came off an impressive Triple Crown Presidents Day tournament in which they finished 4th out of 27 teams and they were the only 96 team left in the final 4. Also in Oct we where in the Monster Mash TCS and finish 3rd. The only lost came to PowerSurge 3-2 in the Semis in the international tiebreaker. We are no longer playing in the side circut..

[Stan the Caddy]

Ozone Gold just came off an impressive Triple Crown Presidents Day tournament in which they finished 4th out of 27 teams and they were the only 96 team left in the final 4. Also in Oct we where in the Monster Mash TCS and finish 3rd. The only lost came to PowerSurge 3-2 in the Semis in the international tiebreaker. We are no longer playing in the side circut..

May I suggest this fine book...

[bracketologist]

Ozone Gold just came off an impressive Triple Crown Presidents Day tournament in which they finished 4th out of 27 teams and they were the only 96 team left in the final 4. Also in Oct we where in the Monster Mash TCS and finish 3rd. The only lost came to PowerSurge 3-2 in the Semis in the international tiebreaker. We are no longer playing in the side circut..

I've told Scott at PowerSurge that playing in those TCS tournaments would cost him a place or two in the poll!

No Ozone Gold is a very solid team ........ just one of a couple teams that play mostly in USSSA and TCS. Kind of reminds me of another San Diego team that loves to play the side circuit and that would only come out and play in April........... The only quesition is will Ozone be able to pull off a TNL and be competitive at State?

[bracketologist]

Speaking of 12's when's the next "bracky 12U" poll come out? Should be interesting.

New 12u poll next week. After that 12u polls will include coaches ballots....I will start sending out the ballots 1st of March.

[cent]

Can't keep my parents from the casinos, warm weather, sitting by the pool, adult drinks at the Fields of Dreams, and all the great restaurants in Palm Springs. They make me go to those Triple Crown tournaments, its terrible what they do to me.

[ice_67]

Can't keep my parents from the casinos, warm weather, sitting by the pool, adult drinks at the Fields of Dreams, and all the great restaurants in Palm Springs. They make me go to those Triple Crown tournaments, its terrible what they do to me.

This year we're going to make you sneak up to the roof of the snack bar and collect the hundreds of foul balls that never come down.