SC Blues Cup 2010

by Dan on 02Aug2010

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Southern California Blues Cup will be Labor Day weekend of September 4th through 6th…

Brackets

Accepted!!

Our schedule can be found here and the full bracket schedule here. As of this writing our first game is at 10:30AM on Saturday. Results will be/are here [click to continue…]

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Fall 2010

by Dan on 30Aug2010

The only link that is currently live, as of 8/30/2010, is the “Results” link.

Fall schedule (Sporting Only)

Full Schedule

Results here

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Our Points Went Down?!

by Dan on 07Aug2010

Depending on how often you review the GotSoccer website, you may have noticed that our points went down.?? How does that happen? Good question. The points that you have go “stale” or “expire” after one year. So, our points went down from 14156 to 13903 which is the number of points that we earned in our first ranked tournament (Breakers Cup) as GU12 competitors. In that tournament we received an arbitrary number of points (253) for winning.

We’ll get some points for being a finalist at Breaker’s cup this year, but since it is not a tournament run on GotSoccer’s site, the data is entered manually at their convenience…

The other interesting thing to notice is that even though our points dropped our rank went up by two. There is no easy way to know this other than to monitor the site. They show on our page whether our rank is up or down, but it is from a month ago. I think they ought to show how you’ve done not only for the last month, but for the last year. To compare a team’s rank from day to day or even week to week is not particularly meaningful:

  • Injuries
  • Illness
  • Referees
  • etc.

I think it would be useful to plot the numbers monthly for a year or longer.

Trivia question: What is the maximum number of points the team can ever reach?  Remember that the most points you can receive for winning a tournament is 10,000 minus 20% of the number you brought to the tournament.  Also, as mentioned above, points expire after a year…

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Logging in Issues

by Dan on 18Jul2010

I’ve had a plug-in installed that allows us as users to not have to remember an extra password for the site. You could log-in using Facebook, AOL, Yahoo, gmail etc. Problems have cropped up with the plug-in that cause the site to crash UGH!! and other users have identified a huge security hole.

I have no choice but to deactivate this until the issues are resolved. Fortunately, you only need a password to get to the “private” info and the system can automatically give you a new password if you forget. (Click the link on the login page)

Sorry for the inconvenience…

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CVYSL Magic Cup 2010

July 5, 2010
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Accepted!! Magic Cup will be held August 28th and 29th at the Morgan Hill Soccer Complex. Our schedule can be found here and the full bracket schedule here. As of this writing our first game is at 08:00AM on Saturday. Results will be/are here

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Stampede 2010

June 30, 2010
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ACCEPTED Mustang Stampede Classic Girls 2010 will be held beginning Friday, August 6th and ending on Sunday, August 8th. The games are shown on our Calendar page (includes links to field maps etc.) Our first game is at 8:30 on Friday. All bracket games for our age are played at the same time. All games [...]

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Broadcasting LIVE!!

June 20, 2010

Brett has figured out how to stream from his video camera to the web using his laptop computer and a wireless cell phone card. He will broadcast from the fields during the games!! I’ll have the game on the site in the upper right corner, when they are live. After the game, I’ll figure out [...]

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FWR Practice field

June 16, 2010
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Balloon Fiesta Park is located at the north end of Albuquerque. The park can be reached from either the Northern Entrance (I25 Exit 234; Roy/ Tramway South to Balloon Fiesta Parkway) -or- Southern Entrance (I25 Exit 233; Alameda Road West to Balloon Museum Drive)

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Travel to Albuquerque

June 16, 2010
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Team Travel to Albuquerque- Their soccer bag should be carried on containing:

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The Mountain

June 12, 2010
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Earlier today, Saturday June 12th, 2010 the team assembled at coach Jim’s house at 9:30. We planned to take advantage of the Black & White limousine service but had to call in the “re-enforcements” and it became the Black, White and Blue (at least it wasn’t the black and blue service). My suburban had 8 [...]

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