2018 Season - National Perspective

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Ejay

Quote from: Goldenrj on April 26, 2018, 02:37:58 PM
Hampden-Sydney beat D1 Longwood 4-0.

At first I was impressed, until I see that Longwood was 1-15-2 and were outscored 11-40 last season. :o

Gregory Sager

... and there's only 18 players on Longwood's spring roster, including only three players who registered a point last season. The starting goalkeeper's gone as well.
"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

Falconer

Quote from: D3soccerwatcher on April 22, 2018, 11:43:10 PM
Messiah Instagram reports Messiah lost to Bucknell University 1-0 this weekend.

I didn't see this game myself, but someone who did told me this: Both teams played well with at least a few scoring chances, but Falcons didn't do as much as they could have with theirs. On the Falcon side of the ball, lots of people playing new positions. (They are losing five starters to graduation, and I think he said that at least one key returning player, Shea Quintin,  did not play owing to injury.) Bucknell scored in the second half when Messiah's target was manhandled and lost the ball, leading to a quick counterattack with a very nice finish.

That's all I know. If anyone actually saw it, I'd love to hear another opinion.

Ejay

Quote from: Gregory Sager on April 27, 2018, 12:18:21 PM
... and there's only 18 players on Longwood's spring roster, including only three players who registered a point last season. The starting goalkeeper's gone as well.

I've got 1 year of eligibility left.  Maybe I'll look at some graduate classes  :P

Gregory Sager

"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

Buck O.

So, as it turned out, the NCAA decided not to have the refs keep time on the field after all.

Good call, NCAA!  (I don't get to write that very often.)

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/harsher-illegal-participation-penalties-approved-soccer

Goldenrj

Quote from: Gregory Sager on April 27, 2018, 12:18:21 PM
... and there's only 18 players on Longwood's spring roster, including only three players who registered a point last season. The starting goalkeeper's gone as well.
Yeah, not a good team. It does show that decent D3 teams can beat bottom D1 teams.

D3soccerwatcher

Quote from: Falconer on April 27, 2018, 01:44:23 PM
Quote from: D3soccerwatcher on April 22, 2018, 11:43:10 PM
Messiah Instagram reports Messiah lost to Bucknell University 1-0 this weekend.

I didn't see this game myself, but someone who did told me this: Both teams played well with at least a few scoring chances, but Falcons didn't do as much as they could have with theirs. On the Falcon side of the ball, lots of people playing new positions. (They are losing five starters to graduation, and I think he said that at least one key returning player, Shea Quintin,  did not play owing to injury.) Bucknell scored in the second half when Messiah's target was manhandled and lost the ball, leading to a quick counterattack with a very nice finish.

That's all I know. If anyone actually saw it, I'd love to hear another opinion.

Report I got was Messiah had 2 SOG's for the game.  And the Bucknell goal came off of a pass to a back who mishandled it.

Hopkins92

Quote from: Buck O. on April 29, 2018, 02:25:27 PM
So, as it turned out, the NCAA decided not to have the refs keep time on the field after all.

Good call, NCAA!  (I don't get to write that very often.)

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/harsher-illegal-participation-penalties-approved-soccer

Not really directly relevant, but time wasting is one of my pet peeves about soccer (and it happens a lot on all levels.)

538 just came out with this re: FIFA and stoppage time: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/world-cup-stoppage-time-is-wildly-inaccurate/

TL:DR - Basically the average amount of stoppage added is around 6 minutes, which includes both halves. By 538s estimation, it should be close to double at around 13 minutes a game.

Keep in mind, they capped a lot of this by not starting the time wasting until, say, 20 seconds after a ball went out of bounds, or 60 seconds after a goal. I'm not really sure why, because the point is that timekeeping is ridiculous in the FIFA system. It's slightly less problematic in NCAA and high school leagues that use a scoreboard, but it's still THE WORST in comparison to other sports that keep a clock... By a really wide margin.


jknezek

Quote from: Hopkins92 on July 10, 2018, 04:50:32 PM
Quote from: Buck O. on April 29, 2018, 02:25:27 PM
So, as it turned out, the NCAA decided not to have the refs keep time on the field after all.

Good call, NCAA!  (I don't get to write that very often.)

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/harsher-illegal-participation-penalties-approved-soccer

Not really directly relevant, but time wasting is one of my pet peeves about soccer (and it happens a lot on all levels.)

538 just came out with this re: FIFA and stoppage time: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/world-cup-stoppage-time-is-wildly-inaccurate/

TL:DR - Basically the average amount of stoppage added is around 6 minutes, which includes both halves. By 538s estimation, it should be close to double at around 13 minutes a game.

Keep in mind, they capped a lot of this by not starting the time wasting until, say, 20 seconds after a ball went out of bounds, or 60 seconds after a goal. I'm not really sure why, because the point is that timekeeping is ridiculous in the FIFA system. It's slightly less problematic in NCAA and high school leagues that use a scoreboard, but it's still THE WORST in comparison to other sports that keep a clock... By a really wide margin.

I don't say this very often, but fivethirtyeight missed a very important point in this article. One might even say they missed the most important point. In a 90 minute game, plus stoppage time, the point is the ball is supposed to be in play for about 60 minutes. Stoppage time is supposed to make up for minutes under 60, not minutes under 90 less some variance. 90 minutes by itself builds in a lot of the time fivethirtyeight is complaining about. That is why FIFA, as late as 2017, was having roundtable discussions about going to two 30 minute, stopped clock for out of play, halves. It was brought up around the Confed Cup last year as an alternative. It hasn't gone very far yet, but FIFA wants 60 minutes of game play. Whether that is done with the current system, or with a stopped clock system, is something that is being studied at some level, though it will be very hard to change the existing tradition.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2017/06/18/fifa-panel-invites-debate-on-radical-60-minute-game-clock/102990272/

Regardless, the fivethirtyeight article actual shows it's not too bad as it is. If you add up the minutes in play column and the stoppage time actual, you get around 60 minutes in most games. Looks like the lowest is around 55 minutes and the highest around 70 minutes. If you go by their stoppage time expected, you'd be way over in almost every case, between 65 and 75 minutes in just about every game.

Fivethirtyeight let someone who misunderstands the purpose of a 90 minute game, in a very fundamental way, screw up this article. That's a shame.


Ejay

Quote from: oldonionbag on August 07, 2018, 03:45:07 PM
I know these don't mean much of anything this far out...but the preseason rankings are out: http://unitedsoccercoaches.org/web/Rankings/College_Rankings/NCAA_DIII_MEN/web/Rankings/NCAA/DIII_MEN.aspx?hkey=8152a37c-dcf4-4681-b87d-1404b6d21915

While technically just released on August 7th, they were in fact first published on December 6th... https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d3/united-soccer-coaches

I wish they would do an actual preseason poll.

TyWebb

Here is a link to the Men's and Women's 2018 Preseason conference polls. The only conference posted so far is the CCIW which was discussed in the CCIW thread.

http://www.d3soccer.com/notables/2018/Preseason-Conference-Polls

Ron Boerger

Former Trinity (TX)/MLS defender Lance Key is returning to the sidelines of his alma mater on a part-time basis, this time on the men's side, per his Instagram post.   After completing his MLS career, Key had coached the Trinity women (2004-2016, national finals in 2013) prior to departing for other opportunities.

Flying Weasel

FWIW, last night Messiah defeated Rutgers-Newark 2-1 in Newark.  The final score is all I know at this point.  Messiah will host Randolph-Macon Saturday afternoon in another preseason match.