Today we release our summer update for the 2014 Top 150 Boys.

As part of our continuing effort to improve Players To Watch, we are now ranking four graduating classes each of boys and girls. We’ll continue unveiling these updates throughout the summer. Next week it will be 2014 Girls.

Jeffrey Farina

For the 2014 Boys, the top of the list stays relatively static, but there are a number of new entries ino the overall list along with considerable movement up and down the chart due to additional feedback and evaluation. New players ranked this quarter include Jeffrey Farina of the Chicago Fire, Miguel Jaime of the Colorado Rush, Klint Parker of Charlotte Soccer Academy and Jordan Speed of Dallas Texans.

You can see the full rankings list here.

The regional rankings for 2014 Boys will be unveiled beginning Tuesday and through Friday for our 16 regions in this class. Many new players are being added to these list as we continue hearing from each area.

As far as how we arrive at the rankings, it’s no simple task.

We keep a national database of players as the starting point for our rankings (if you’re not in it, create a profile here). We track an extensive list of selections to national team camps and other honors including USSF Development Academy (Boys), ECNL (Girls), and U.S. Youth Soccer National League event and season awards, plus U.S. Soccer Training Centers, ODP, id2 and other player identification programs.

From there we look at additional signs of top player performance in a club environment, with the help of an extensive network of observers around the country, especially college club and other coaches on the ground (recruiting interest shown is a major factor). As a matter of policy, we never share which coaches said what about whom. Another policy is that parents’ opinions about their own children are not considered, but you are welcome to provide feedback about honors and other details that may be of help to us in keeping their profiles up to date and sifting through thousands of players nationwide

In the end, there’s always some level of subjectivity about players, because after all, how good someone is relative to someone else is largely a matter of opinion, but we do our best to make our rankings as educated an opinion as can be.

The rankings will now be updated every quarter. Keeping current rankings for 8 classes of 150 players each is no small task, and it is counterintuitive to think the rankings would change daily or weekly. We will announce each update.

So that’s it. You can read the newest version of the rankings here. As always, thank you for reading TopDrawerSoccer.com

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