They brought two teams and split up their AA team into two evenly matched A teams by bringing up their B kids. We played both teams and the one team we played in the Championship. One of their parents told me the split once the tournament dropped their AA bracket. They were not a B Team I think we beat them by 3 goals but I think it was a 2 goal game with 4 minutes left.They did beat us at Elite 8. They are legit and certainly not a B Team. Their righty attack is a force and generates about 75% of their offense and their face off kid is top notch.
Since there were only 4 AA teams BL and the other 3 were supposed to split up there teams. Each of the BL teams had 1/2 of the AA kids...
What the [lacrosse] is"AA"!!! is it made up so they B teams who think they are A can be called A for a weekend...silly
haha so true! soon AAA AA and A can't call kids B and C might hurt their feelings ...sad !! just like starting to call second and third teams by names ...ALL A JOKE ! not fooling anyone !
If you're going to assign teams to some sort of talent or ranking categories, then you need to pick how many tiers that ranking will include. Then you need to come to a clear consensus on what being in one versus the other is determined by (teams near the bottom of one versus the top of the other will always bring about debate). None of that exists today - people like to speak as though there is a clear two-tier system, A and B, but in application, it's a one-tier system with the best of the best called out, and then a few more programs right below that, and then EVERYONE else - there are too many teams in the "everyone else" category ('B") for this to be a valid two-tier system. In a true two-tier system, there are are a number of good 'B' teams that would be more appropriately lower A teams. The only other way to do it would to have every team numerically ranked, and then define the decile that define the categories, IE, top 10 = A, 11 - 30 = B, etc, etc; this would actually allow for more than two tiers, which would also provide insight into matching teams up better for tournaments et al That isn't happening unless someone builds a system that tracks all of this based upon numerous objective factors (forget bringing in subjective factors like voting!). It also would only be valid for a given year since teams have turnover in players - each year you would start over, but there would nothing to provide preseason ranking on other than the previous year's team ranking. It would be an interesting graduate project for a former lax player in an appropriate field of study (statistics/math?).
