>>It is not players 1-11 that will win or loose championships. It's players 12-20 that make the real difference.<<
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When I first read this, the sheer genius of it was lost on me - but the more I've thought about it, the more I realize that this is quite possibly the single most brilliant observation on this forum - or for that matter on any forum in the galaxy.
By the logic above, players 1-11 (11 players) should be benched as a unit since they don't win/lose championships. Players 12-20 (9 players) should be started since they win/lose championships. That leaves them 2 players short.
Those 2 players by this logic are the key. Because as soon as players 12-20 are started, they become players 1-9. By the logic that players 1-11 don't matter, then players 1-9 matter less. So the top 9 of the original 1-11 who don't win/lose championships are then rotated in.
You can tell where this takes you - you're constantly swapping lineups for players 1-9 - who alternatively don't matter and do matter depending upon the lineup. It's a Schrodinger's cat kinda thing - where the state of the 1-9 is unknown. This confused me further since the coach is constantly observing and naming the players 1-11 and 12-20.
But then I realized that the coach doesn't win/lose championships either, it's only players 12-20. So if the coach doesn't know which players are players 1-20, then players 1-11 versus players 12-20 are an unknown - in essence, they are entangled and thus don't collapse into a known state.
But the top 2 players are in essence a standing wave function that is constantly collapsed. So they are the key.
So fundamentally the question is whether those two players were at the ECNL event that conflicted with the tournament. If they were there, then there precise position is known - which as per Heisenberg's uncertainty principle would imply that we can't know their identity since we know their absolute position.
The rationale behind all of this of course is Godel's incompleteness theory - that we can't understand those 1-20 players because we're working within the known system of soccer.
So all of this seems moot - or "mute", if you're from South Carolina and have a governor who influences the composition of a set of trustees that attempt to improve the quality of our universities by limiting higher paying out-of-state students (who tend to subsidize in-state student tuition) so that we don't have high-IQ carpetbaggers forcing high-technology industry into our state and thus crowding out higher paid service-industry jobs at McDonald's.
