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.
Hard to say what is A. Clearly Taz and WP are AA but they take 22ish players and do not play the other 6-8 kids. If those other 6-8 kids formed another team then another team would exist that could beat Express A Schwalje.
Those 4-12 teams are probably A players outside of Long Island or Maryland.
Taz and WP cause a serious problem to every tournament director because no one wants to play them. So all teams try to go into other brackets.
To say LI has very few A teams is ignorance at best - while other areas have come a long ways towards the quality of lax talent out there, LI and MD still are the primary locales for the sport. To extend that "there really are very few "A" caliber teams on Long Island" concept to its logical conclusion, what you are actually saying is that there really are very few "A" caliber teams ANYWHERE". Which, when you think about it, is a ridiculous statement!
