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Thanks to all. This is great! .... but I still don't get how to do it. Does one type in the word "code" surrounded by brackets? Or do we have to find a page and click on the bracketed "code" word? (Or do I have to find a 12-year-old computer nerd to do it for me?) And do I gather you got the red lettering by the same method?
Type a [ and then type the word code and then type a ] just like to get italics you type a [ and then type the letter i and then type a ]
ACC in the major rankings.... (as of 9/18) RPI 5 Duke 8 Wake Forest 10 Florida State 13 UNC 14 Boston College 16 Virginia 19 Miami 31 NC State 38 Maryland 59 Virginia Tech 114 Clemson Massey 3 UNC 4 Wake Forest 6 Duke 9 Florida State 15 Maryland 16 Boston College 17 Virginia 20 Miami 31 Virginia Tech 50 NC State 119 Clemson NSCAA 4 Duke 5 UNC 7 Wake Forest 10 Florida State 11 Maryland 13 Boston College 16 Virginia 30 Virginia Tech Soccer America 4 Duke 5 UNC 6 Boston College 7 Wake Forest 9 Maryland 10 Florida State 14 Virginia Soccer Times 4 UNC 5 Duke 7 Wake Forest 8 Maryland 9 Boston College 10 Virginia 12 Florida State 24 Virginia Tech 32 Miami 38 NC State
Here's an update on scores from around the conference... Boston College 2 @ Va Tech 1 (2OT) Duke 2 @ Clemson 0 Wake Forest 4 vs. Miami 1 Maryland 0 vs. NC State 0 (2OT) UVA @ UNC still in progress
A quick breakdown of resumes for NCAA selection/seeding at the halfway point of the season, using the latest Massey ratings. This will all of course change as the season unwinds, but here is where things stand now... Wake Forest 10-1-0 (3-0-0) Significant wins (Massey Top 50): 9 Florida State, 19 UCF, 20 Miami, 22 Auburn, 38 Nebraska, 40 South Carolina, 50 NC State Bad losses (Massey 100+): None Duke 11-1-0 (3-0-0) Significant wins: 9 Florida State, 20 Miami, 23 Notre Dame, 30 Texas A&M, 40 South Carolina Bad losses: None Boston College 8-0-2 (3-0-0) Significant wins: 15 Maryland, 17 Virginia, 31 Virginia Tech Bad losses: None (Tied 130 Syracuse) Virginia 8-2-1 (2-1-0) Significant wins: 3 UNC, 15 Maryland, 42 West Virginia Bad losses: None North Carolina 6-2-0 (1-1-0) Significant wins: 23 Notre Dame, 38 Nebraska, 43 Ohio State, 50 NC State Bad losses: None Florida State 8-3-0 (1-2-0) Significant wins: 5 Florida, 21 Marquette, 26 Oregon State Bad losses: None Maryland 7-2-3 (0-2-1) Significant wins: 31 Virginia Tech (Tied 1 Stanford, 50 NC State) Bad losses: None NC State 8-3-1 (0-2-1) Significant wins: None (Tied 15 Maryland) Bad losses: None Virginia Tech 8-4-0 (0-1-0) Significant wins: None Bad losses: None Miami 7-3-0 (1-2-0) Significant wins: None Bad losses: None Clemson 5-5-0 (0-3-0) Significant wins: None Bad losses: 151 Furman
Carolina92, I'm thinking that at some point, if you continue with your analysis, you'll shift from Massey to the RPI, since the RPI is what will count for the NCAA tournament. FYI, the NCAA will have its first "official" RPI release tomorrow. But, you can use the nc-soccer RPI ratings rather than the NCAA's ratings, since the nc-soccer RPI ratings are accurate. By my estimation, notwithstanding that the RPI isn't intended for use until the very end of the regular season (including conference tournaments), it's going to be ready to replace Massey pretty soon so far as NCAA tournament participation analysis is concerned. By the way, your "significant wins" info is critical in terms of differentiating teams "on the bubble" for the tournament. On the other hand, your "bad losses" info, based on my study over the past few years, is not a factor unless the losses occur during a team's last 8 games of the season.
Carolina92, thanks for the updates. FYI, that VA Tech's ACC record is now (0-2-0) with yesterday's loss. #1 was to Maryland. Didn't think they could be 2 games behind the other ACC teams.
Thanks, correction noted lvscrnc! In other news, the US U-23 National Team has announced the pool for their training camp Oct. 2-7. The camp is being led by full national team coach Pia Sundhage. More details... "...A unique training camp for the U.S. Under-23 National Team that will be led by U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Pia Sundhage, along with U.S. Soccer Women's Development Director Jill Ellis and U.S. Soccer Women's Technical Director April Heinrichs. The camp will take place at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. from Oct. 2-7. Sundhage will be at the camp to evaluate the group of top college players and young professionals for possible call-ups to U.S. Women's National Team camps heading into the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Vancouver, Canada in January and if all goes well there, the run to the 2012 Olympics in London." Some of the country's top teams are losing their major talent for that week. UNC, Stanford and Wake Forest were the only teams in the country to have multiple players called into the camp. Current ACC players called into the camp are: Mollie Pathman D (Duke) Amber Brooks M (UNC) Crystal Dunn F (UNC) Katie Stengel F (Wake Forest) Aubrey Bledsoe GK (Wake Forest) Kristen Mewis M (Boston College) Morgan Brian M (Virginia) This will impact the following games for these teams (which are on October 2nd or 6th): Boston College @ Clemson UNC @ Miami UVA @ Wake Forest Duke vs. Virginia Tech Duke @ Boston College UNC vs. Clemson and possibly these games happening on Oct. 8th as well: UVA vs. Florida State Wake Forest @ Maryland
And here's the press release from US Soccer... http://www.ussoccer.com/News/U-23-WNT/2011/09/Top-Collegians-and-Pros-Report-for-U23-WNT-Camp.aspx
I concur. There's not even games being played for this camp -- and it is a weirdly balanced roster -- 4 defenders and 8 mids and 9 forwards? come on. And, if Pia et al really are looking at the best players in the age group, why the heck aren't Henninger & Jones called up?
Some players have not been called up because they already have been seen, with Bianca being a good example. Although the timing is tough for the teams of players who are going, the timing is being driven by the schedule for the lead-up to the Olympics. A US Soccer question probably is whether they will go to the Olympics simply with the team that went to the World Cup or whether they will use the Olympics as an opportunity to introduce some new players to the team and senior world stage as the beginning point for the lead-up to the next World Cup. If they want to keep the latter option alive, then they have to start looking at potential new players now.
Saw that UVA beat UNC 1-0, but didn't realize that was the first victory over the Tar Heels in UVA history! 38th time's the charm I guess We'll have to see if they can prove themselves against Duke and Wake this upcoming week. Slaying the Tar Heels
There are players who've been called in for this camp that have "already been seen" quite a bit. I get your point, I do. There have been three U23 camps already this year. I'm just making the point that club teams seem to be getting little respect.
Maybe someone could explain to them about the wonder of video technology if they want to "look." There's just no reason for this. I mean December would be a good time - it's plenty before mid-January and seeing as they only need 5 days . . .
I can't help noticing this in Thursday's schedule, with the rankings being the teams' RPI rankings: #3 Duke v #6 Virginia #13 Florida State v #16 North Carolina I have no idea how the ACC season or the RPI rankings will end up, but wow!
The USWNT camp is in November and Olympics qualifying are in January. It's unfortunate but that's the schedule. If they wait until after the college season, there's no point in calling any U-23s in because the U-23s already missed all the potential training time with the USWNT and the US friendlies and shaking up the roster less than a month before the qualifying games is stupid. I'm sure if this was a non-Olympics year, they'd wait until after the college season. As it is, I imagine they'll take a look at the U-23s and then call the ones that perform well into the USWNT camp, maybe even get them some gametime experience at the senior level in the upcoming friendlies.
The reason the camp is stupid is because Pia has no intention of taking any of these players on the NT for the Olympics....none! So why make them leave in the middle of their season? Do folks think she's really going to shake up the roster for London?
How much "training time" do you think the full nats will have/need here? They've got ONE friendly against Sweden in November (call up some folks for that? maybe). Then they prep for the Olympic qualifiers with a camp in December (perfect time to call folks in) & then in January before you head for Canada on the 19th of January. Sorry, the calendar is why this is SOOOOOO stupid. If the Olys were in December, this camp would make some minimal amount of sense.
Does this mean that the few U-23s who make the cut (and who likely will sit on the bench throughout the Olympics) will miss some NCAA tournament games in November? If so, that will make some other college coaches very happy!
My mistake, it appears that those games on October 2nd will not be affected. Players will fly to the national team camp after their respective games that day. That means only these games should be impacted (but no official word yet): Duke @ Boston College UNC vs. Clemson