Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
DCE 26 already beat 91 this past fall. But oh year “their best players were at football”. See ya at HOCO.

Fall scrimmages don't count for squat Einstein.

Yes they do, at this level. By 8th grade, all kids on elite level travel teams are hoping to play lacrosse in high school and college, and most are playing year round. Most teams have roughly the same roster as they do for spring and summer, and often it is the weaker players missing, which is actually a net plus. And, in the rare case where a team is missing a large chunk of its roster, they choose they choose their tournaments accordingly. So if team A beats Team B when both teams have 90% of their rosters, that is a good indicator of where the teams stand.

By the way, I love the word "scrimmage" - were the coaches on the field stopping play when they wanted to teach something?


Yup if the Baltimore Ravens Pre-season games counted they would have made the playoffs. But, they don't count. Fall tournaments in college count as wins in the spring too!

You can leave BOTC now.............

Assuming that the "tournaments do count at this level" poster is either MM or an MM minion, he is correct in one specific way that is SUPER important to MM - National rankings absolutely include fall tournament games against other "relevant" teams. As MM knows well, you get almost as many ranking points for losing to a top-ranked team, as you do for beating a semi-elite team. The 2028 91MD team went something like 2-15 last year, including 5? losses to Madlax, and if that's repeated this year, the team will be well ranked.

So tournaments count FOR WHAT is really the appropriate question.

If "FOR RECRUITING!" is the answer, that's kind of a joke, being that the average college coaching tenure is about 3 years and we are talking about 8th graders. Only 30% of coaches make it 5 years and 24% of coaches make it 6 years. Heck, that coach that looks at your kid in 8th grade, there's an almost equal chance that he won't even be coaching college - anywhere - by the time your son reaches 11th grade.