Can someone rank the major LI travel teams, other than WP and Taz?
1/2 91 WolfPack Aiello 1/2 Legacy Taz Keenan
3 Express A Schwalje (Will get beat by Wolfpack and Taz but can handle all the rest)
4 Igloo A Windchill 5 Legacy Launch Taylor 6 True Blue 7 24 A Lightning 8 Team Long Island Spadaro 9 E3 Vitulli 10 Express B OReilly 11 Empire A Green Rotanz 12 Outlaws
The Rest: 91 Orange Gargulio Empire B White Express C Fighting Ducks Mama Boys Igloo B 24 Thunder
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Can someone rank the major LI travel teams, other than WP and Taz?
Provided the above list is accurate (not so much order, but inclusion) the entirety of those 12 teams are what constitute A for 2024, with the top 3 being AA. And, unless you're playing in a tournament that clearly has an AA division WITH A FULL COMPLIMENT of AA teams, then all of these teams should be playing in A brackets.
While I'm not that familiar with the teams after Express, if Launch is really a # 5 caliber team, then there is an ENORMOUS drop off after the top three (I don't know what is happening with Igloo right now). The AA teams would beat all of those teams by at least 20+ goal's. Seriously, that is accurate. Based on that, while apparently a lot of people don't want to hear it, there really are very few "A" caliber teams on Long Island. Possibly just Express. Maybe Igloo. That's it. Not trying to stir the pot here, but with that kind of difference from the AA teams, to the next level... that next level of A just does not exist here on LI.
The point is you really don’t know. Maybe Launch is #5, maybe #12. Most teams have kids come and go every year. Some kids my have gotten bigger and stronger. Some kids caught up to the other kids in skills and quickness. Some kids worked hard in August and September, some kids went to the beach. My son played half the teams on this list last year and I have no clue which team is good or not. Some of these teams play in town tournaments to get t shirts, some play in better tournaments and get beat down. Which of those teams improved from competition? They only way to rank these teams is to know every kid on each team and rank them. Otherwise is just white noise.
