Here’s the final fall Bored MD rankings. I think these are more accurate than the US club rankings, but it’s hard to assess fall ball because so many kids are missing and teams aren’t practicing as much. So I place more weight on the summer results than fall, which is why a couple teams that had some very nice results at the end of the fall aren’t higher. There’s a lot more parity between the northern hotbed teams and the Maryland teams now. We still haven’t seen a team from the West breakthrough other than the Mad Dog West and WCS all star teams.

1. Annapolis Hawks (1)
T-2. Madlax (2). I know about the ten goal loss to Express North. But there are a lot of other wins over the summer and fall to balance that out. Impossible to compare with Venom given the lack of a head to head, the fact Venom hasn’t played much, and the lack of many compelling games overall this fall among all teams.
T-2. Team 91 Venom (4). Needs to play more but excellent results.
4. 3D New England (3). Played the toughest fall schedule and racked up a ton of wins against top 15 teams.
5. Express North (7). What a run at NAL! Huge wins against Madlax and BBL. If can play at that level in the summer, they will challenge for the very top spots.
6. BBL (5). Play a very strong schedule. Probably top overall strength of a schedule for summer and fall. Only criticism is they struggle a little against the top 5, but very solid team.
7. 2way (6). Huge unknown given the lack of games against MD teams. This is a guess. Hopefully we will see them in the summer.
8. FCA (8). Results might not match the talent level yet. But very good team.
9. WCS (unranked). They’ve only played one tournament and the results are win over True, tie with Team 91 Ga, and two goal loss to Madlax among top competition. Hard to know where that puts them. But obviously likely to have tons of athletes when they come east this summer.
10. Next Level (10).
11. Freedom (11). Very similar to Next Level in terms of results. Next Level has had the better of the head to heads.
12. Mad Dog West (12)
13. Long Island Express (9). Really hard to pin this team down. Keep expecting them to post better results outside Long Island.
14. Crabs (13). Need to play more and better competition, but there are signs they might move up the rankings in the spring and summer.
15. Legacy (15)
16. Laxachusetts (unranked)
17. True Annapolis (unranked)
18. Thunder (upstate NY) (unranked)
19. Team 91 GA (unranked)
20. Alpha Elite Colorado (unranked). Colorado looks to still not have consolidated. Alpha seems to have the best results.

National teams - Nationals, True National, Mad Dog National also very good.

MD/DMV Specific Top 10

1. Hawks
2. Madlax
3. FCA Blue
4. Next Level
5. Crabs
6. True Annapolis
7. Bethesda
8. Kelly Post
9. Blue Claws
10. FCA White