023. ECNL GAMEWEEK 37: HIGHLIGHTS

This is the season's last week with 100+ games played across either Boys or Girls, and 98%+ of season game-volume is behind-us. Nonetheless, there are still opportunities to win games, and secure rankings spots!

Our stories for ECNL Boys Gameweek 37:

• Nationwide Team Rankings ▫ All Ages Combined:
  • Ohio Valley's Nationals Soccer Club exited the Top 10 list, replaced by Florida Kraze.
  • Northeast's Charlotte SA Academy enters the Top 25 by winning a single game during the week.
• Conferences & other regional highlights:
  • Northeast's recent weekly game-volumes have been high, and this week was no exception - they completed 57 of 248 nationwide games played.

Gameweek summary

ECNL Boys and ECNL Girls:

Nationwide Team Rankings ▫ Boys - All Ages Combined

Ohio Valley's Nationals Soccer Club drops from Top 10 ▫ Charlotte SA Academy enters the Top 25

Here's a snapshot of latest rankings - Top 10:

See full rankings on our post in the Featured section.

Ohio Valley's Nationals Soccer Club started Gameweek 37 ranked #9 across the country. Consider the following:

• The team begins the week with a cumulative PTS-G of 2.23.
• During Gameweek 37, they play 12 games, and deliver PTS-G of 1.58 during the week.
• Net effect: their cumulative PTS-G drops by 0.09, and they lose a coveted position inside the nation's Top 10.

Let's also highlight that - during this current season - this organization was ranked #1 across the country for 15 consecutive gameweeks in a row. It's a strong organization, and we look-forward to its winning ways in the upcoming postseason.

Mid-Atlantic's Charlotte SA Academy only had to play 1 game this week. They won that game - improved their PTS-G by 0.01 - and entered the nation's Top 25.

Conferences & other regional highlights

Northeast delivers high game-volume, but relatively-low goal-production on a per-game basis.

Consider these grids:

... and then this one:

At SoccerAnalytix, we're perpetually-intrigued by performance variances across conferences and age groups. With high GF-G, does it mean that there are "really-strong" teams inside a conference... or does it mean that it's a relatively less-competitive conference? It turns-out that it's always a mix of both reasons... and - over time - we'll present to you a statistical approach that isolates each one of these aspects.

By the way, due to expected lower game-volumes, we'll review Gameweek 38+39 through a single episode in 2 weeks.

That's it for this week!

Richard - from SoccerAnalytix.