025. ECNL GAMEWEEKS 38/39: HIGHLIGHTS

About 1% of the season's games were played in these last 2 gameweeks... but make no mistake - the drama was high, as were the consequences! There were still teams on-their-way to clinching a last-minute spot into the postseason, and the "Nationwide Team Rankings ▫ All Ages Combined" had a few more surprises left in its rankings bag-of-tricks.

Our stories for ECNL Boys Gameweeks 38/39:

• Nationwide Team Rankings ▫ All Ages Combined:
  • Mountain's Colorado Rapids execute an impressive 3-spot uplift into the Top 10.
  • Midwest's FC Wisconsin didn't give-up, and jump 1o spots upwards into the rankings, fueled by game-results from all 6 age groups.
• Conferences & other regional highlights:
  • 68% of all games played during this period were from Midwest and Mountain...
  • ... and inside Mountain results we found this period's highest GF in a single game, with Real Colorado Academy ECNL B11 scoring 12 goals on a cool evening at Aurora Sports Park.
• Nationwide Team Rankings ▫ By Age Group:
  • Colorado Rapids 2008 Boys win their last 2 games of the season, and:
    • Grab 2nd-place in their age group conference ranking.
    • Clinch the last-spot in extremis that takes them into the postseason...

Gameweek summary

ECNL Boys and ECNL Girls:

Nationwide Team Rankings ▫ Boys - All Ages Combined

Mountain's Colorado Rapids with a "last-minute" entry into the Top 10, and FC Wisconsin rise by 10 spots.

Here's a snapshot of latest rankings - Top 10

See full rankings on our post in the Featured section.

For those wondering how a club jumps into the Top 10 on the last-weekend of those season, it looks like this - with 10 wins:

You'll find end-of-season drama everywhere in our rankings, including the middle-space, where Midwest's FC Wisconsin climbed up the rankings, from 73 to 63... biggest-mover of the last 2 weeks!

Conferences & other regional highlights

68% of all games played were from Midwest and Mountain

Consider these grids:

... and then this:

... and here's a week-over-week variance comparing to Gameweek 37:

One of the takeaways from these past 2 weeks is that goal-production on a per-game basis decline vs Gameweek 37, but reverted-back to averages observed in the last few weeks of the season. In an upcoming episode, we'll review these above grids with full-season data.

Nationwide Team Rankings ▫ By Age Group

Mountain's Colorado Rapids 2008 Boys clinch their postseason spot in their final 2 games of the last weekend

In-order to secure their postseason spot, Colorado Rapids 2008 Boys had to do more than just win these 2 games (see below):

• The math demonstrated that winning these 2 games would produce a PTS-G tie vs Utah Avalanche 2008 Boys... but that team had a Goal Differential advantage of +11, which they also had to overcome...
• ... and they did! They won these 2 games with an aggregated GD of 14.

That's it for this week!

Richard - from SoccerAnalytix.