UAA soccer 2021

[deiscanton]

It is early, but it is never too early to review the AQ tiebreakers for UAA soccer if two or more teams are tied in points for the Association championship at the end of all 7 UAA matchdays:

From the UAA Soccer Code of Conduct:

3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss-- Single round-robin

The team in the lead after all 7 matchdays of the single round-robin shall be the Association Champion.  If two or more teams are tied in points after all 7 matchdays, these teams will be the Association Co-Champions.

If there are co-champions, the tiebreaker is as follows:

(1)  Head-to-head competition between the co-champions.

(2)  Total goal differential up to a maximum of 3 goals per individual match between the co-champions.

(3)  Points earned in UAA road games (This step shall only be used if the co-champions have played the same number of UAA road games, otherwise, this step shall be skipped.)

(4)  Points earned against succeeding teams in the UAA standings.

(5)  Most wins in UAA competition.

(6)  Fewest goals conceded in UAA competition.

(7)  Most goals scored in UAA competition (Counting up to 3 goals per match.)

(8)  Coin flip administered by the UAA Executive Vice-President. (Dick Rasmussen)

In cases of ties among 3 or more teams, apply the criteria in order until an AQ is determined, or 1 or more teams are eliminated.  Once one or more teams are eliminated, go back to the beginning of the tiebreaker criteria among the remaining tied teams until an AQ is determined or another team is eliminated.  Repeat until an AQ is determined.

If a coin flip is needed to resolve a tie among 3 or more teams, the coin flip shall be used to eliminate
one team, and the tiebreaker criteria then gets reapplied back at the beginning among the remaining tied teams until an AQ is determined or another tied team is eliminated.

If the round-robin cannot be completed, and the designated tie-breaking criteria cannot be equitably applied, then the head coaches of the UAA men's soccer teams will vote as to who is the Association Champion and gets the AQ.  Any head coach of a team that may be affected by this decision will be replaced by the Athletic Director of that institution, who shall serve as a non-voting member of that committee.

[WUPHF]

Big weekend with league-leading NYU playing in St. Louis tonight and Chicago on Sunday. Emory gets a reprieve by UAA standards, hosting Case Western and Carnegie Mellon.  Brandeis and Rochester playing opposite their travel partners.  Let's go!

[deiscanton]

Big weekend with league-leading NYU playing in St. Louis tonight and Chicago on Sunday. Emory gets a reprieve by UAA standards, hosting Case Western and Carnegie Mellon.  Brandeis and Rochester playing opposite their travel partners.  Let's go!

For those who do not follow the UAA regularly, Brandeis is partnered with NYU and Rochester is partnered with Emory for travel purposes.

Jay Murry has a big weekend calling the Wash U soccer games for the Wash U Sports Network.

[d3commentr]

Shocker in Chicago with Brandeis winning 1-0. Chicago controls much of the play just for their defense to pass a late ball directly to Brandeis forward with a nice finish.

[blooter442]

Shocker in Chicago with Brandeis winning 1-0. Chicago controls much of the play just for their defense to pass a late ball directly to Brandeis forward with a nice finish.

That was a pretty shocking pass, the Brandeis striker seemed to initially think that someone was between him and the goal. Then he realized he was in all alone and did a textbook R1-Circle (for Playstation FIFAnatics like myself). Horrible error but great finish.

I know Chicago hasn't set the world on fire to date, but they won the last 4 UAAs in a row (and 5 of the last 6) and Brandeis has not been at their 2012-2017 level, so that is still a very big win for the Judges, and first time beating Chicago since the UAA-winning 2015 season. Despite the strength of the UAA, it seems like the heavy hitters still win the majority of the time (as might be expected in soccer, where randomness is perhaps more prominent than other sports), but results like these happen just often enough to keep people on their toes.

[Gregory Sager]

I feel for that Maroons defender. Man, that must be the sickest pit-of-the-stomach feeling in the world.

When Brandeis's Max Horowitz, who was literally all alone on the left side of his attacking third, had the ball passed right to him by an opponent, he looked shocked for a moment. It was almost as though he was thinking, "Hey! What's this for? It's not my birthday!" An eyeblink later he came to his senses and hooked home the hero-maker strike.

[d3commentr]

Link to the Brandeis goal: https://twitter.com/BrandeisJudges/status/1449175059394961412?s=20

[blue_jays]

Shocker in Chicago with Brandeis winning 1-0. Chicago controls much of the play just for their defense to pass a late ball directly to Brandeis forward with a nice finish.

That was a pretty shocking pass, the Brandeis striker seemed to initially think that someone was between him and the goal. Then he realized he was in all alone and did a textbook R1-Circle (for Playstation FIFAnatics like myself). Horrible error but great finish.

I know Chicago hasn't set the world on fire to date, but they won the last 4 UAAs in a row (and 5 of the last 6) and Brandeis has not been at their 2012-2017 level, so that is still a very big win for the Judges, and first time beating Chicago since the UAA-winning 2015 season. Despite the strength of the UAA, it seems like the heavy hitters still win the majority of the time (as might be expected in soccer, where randomness is perhaps more prominent than other sports), but results like these happen just often enough to keep people on their toes.

The final should have been 3-0 minimum with the quality of corner kicks UChicago whipped into the box all night. But the Maroons are terminally snake-bitten this year. Brandeis played for the tie and lucked out with a win.
It will be interesting to see how many wins it will take for someone to claim the UAA title this year. Every game is up for grabs.

[WUPHF]

I picked a bad day to dismiss a few otherwise very good, but less likely to win the league teams. Emory and Case are tied 2-2

[Gregory Sager]

Case Western Reserve and Emory draw 2-2 in Atlanta.

[Gregory Sager]

NYU beat Wash U, 2-1, in St. Louis.

The Violets were very impressive, as, except for a couple of brief stretches in the final twenty minutes or so, they had the run of play all night. This was not exactly the most gentlemanly contest I've ever seen; the Violets were edgy to the point of borderline goonery, adding a lot of yakety-yak in the faces of the Bears as well. I think I counted eleven cards handed out in this one, but it's worth noting that five of them were on the Bears; they seemed frustrated to the point of unraveling, although they kept it together well enough to push hard at the end in a vain attempt to get level.

[blue_jays]

NYU beat Wash U, 2-1, in St. Louis.

The Violets were very impressive, as, except for a couple of brief stretches in the final twenty minutes or so, they had the run of play all night. This was not exactly the most gentlemanly contest I've ever seen; the Violets were edgy to the point of borderline goonery, adding a lot of yakety-yak in the faces of the Bears as well. I think I counted eleven cards handed out in this one, but it's worth noting that five of them were on the Bears; they seemed frustrated to the point of unraveling, although they kept it together well enough to push hard at the end in a vain attempt to get level.

NYU's gotta be careful they don't get an NJAC reputation with all those cards, lol

[deiscanton]

NYU beat Wash U, 2-1, in St. Louis.

The Violets were very impressive, as, except for a couple of brief stretches in the final twenty minutes or so, they had the run of play all night. This was not exactly the most gentlemanly contest I've ever seen; the Violets were edgy to the point of borderline goonery, adding a lot of yakety-yak in the faces of the Bears as well. I think I counted eleven cards handed out in this one, but it's worth noting that five of them were on the Bears; they seemed frustrated to the point of unraveling, although they kept it together well enough to push hard at the end in a vain attempt to get level.

The Wash U scorekeeper made an error in the final box score when it came to bookings.  Wash U's #13 Arman Sanchez-Conde, who scored the only goal for the Bears this evening, got his second booking of the night in the final minute of the match.   Since Arman Sanchez-Conde already got a yellow earlier in the match, the second booking should be a red card, as you cannot get 2 yellows in the same match.  Therefore, it should be recorded as 1 yellow and 1 red for Wash U's #13, and he cannot play in Sunday's match vs Brandeis as a result of the red card's mandatory 1 game suspension.

[deiscanton]

NYU beat Wash U, 2-1, in St. Louis.

The Violets were very impressive, as, except for a couple of brief stretches in the final twenty minutes or so, they had the run of play all night. This was not exactly the most gentlemanly contest I've ever seen; the Violets were edgy to the point of borderline goonery, adding a lot of yakety-yak in the faces of the Bears as well. I think I counted eleven cards handed out in this one, but it's worth noting that five of them were on the Bears; they seemed frustrated to the point of unraveling, although they kept it together well enough to push hard at the end in a vain attempt to get level.

NYU's gotta be careful they don't get an NJAC reputation with all those cards, lol

So far, no individual NYU player is in danger of facing a 1 game suspension solely due to yellow card accumulation.  (5 yellows in 5 separate matches are needed to get a 1 game suspension on yellow card accumulation.)  The most yellows that any individual NYU player has this season is 2 yellows in 2 separate matches, although as a team, NYU has been booked with 17 yellows and 1 red card this season as of the end of the game vs Wash U. 

[deiscanton]

The last match of the evening on UAA Matchday #3 just went final as of 11:20 PM Central/12:20 AM Eastern.

Game was delayed due to thunderstorms in Rochester, NY and apparently did not start in earnest until after 10 PM Eastern.

Final:  Rochester 1, Carnegie Mellon 0

Rochester's goal came in the 56th minute from on a header from Will Eisold with an assist from Tommy Nelson.  The header came off a free kick.

Shots in favor of Rochester, 14-12

SOG in favor of Carnegie Mellon, 6-3

Rochester had the advantage on corner kicks, 11-4

Carnegie Mellon committed 6 fouls to Rochester's 5.

No bookings given this match.

Rochester called offside twice to Carnegie Mellon's 1 offside.