The rankings are all fairy-dust that is sprinkled onto the parents to extract bigger checks.... Stop drinking the toilet water, I mean Koolaide. These rankings are a joke and everyone knows it. But if it can make the Directors a few more dollars, get all of these foolish teams to sign up for the Holy Grail of Lax ( Denver, DC, whatever it is called these days) then that is what they will print. Some of these "Ranked" teams would lose to a town PAL team.... and have..... Everyone go back to sleep and lets see what happens in the Spring.