Again, I am not trying to offend anyone here. As a coach from a team that benefits from the system, you feel that I am complaining. I feel that I am criticizing the system because I believe that it needs to be changed. I want the rankings to promote the teams in the state. You do not have a problem because the current rankings promote YOUR team. I believe that the system is very political. I wanted to know how rankings were actually done. If all I wrote was: "How are the rankings done?" Nobody would respond to the post. I had to mention several situations that I believe did not make sense. Many players on weaker teams are over looked and a lot of players on good teams are over rated. I played high school soccer is SC. I also went on to play Division 1 college soccer. For the past 4 years I have helped a few high school coaches. I speak for the players and the teams that do not get the recognition that they deserve.
Let me "complain" one more time. You have claimed that you are intelligent and the reason that you are the #8 team in the state is because you are the 8th #1 seed. With that logic, teams 9-16 would all be the #2 teams in each region. I am not the smartest person in the world, but I do not think that ranking system would work. Not to mention that #2 Riverbluff and #4 Irmo play in the same region.
