> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.socceranalytix.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # BETHESDA PREMIER CUP • NOV 2025 • A FEW DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS • 062 - URL: https://www.socceranalytix.com/bethesda-premier-cup-nov-2025-a-few-data-driven-insights-062/ - Published: 2025-12-08T15:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-02-19T18:30:16.000Z - Description: Episode 062 • The Bethesda Premier Cup ended on Sunday, November 23, 2025. The math is pretty clear: they know how to build balanced age group divisions! - Author: Richard - From SoccerAnalytix How can you know if a tournament's age group divisions have been well-structured and balanced? Sometimes, you can find the answer in the game results data... The Bethesda Premier Cup is recognized as a Top 5 Boys US Tournament. In the November 2025 event, 250 teams participated in the showcase-level age groups: Using average goals scored per team per game (GF-G) is a useful metric to compare these age group / division permutations: Inside these age groups, we're observing approx. <20% variances in goal-production across divisions. There's an exception inside the U18/19 Patriot Division - more on that below. Beyond this exception, tournament officials have structured teams into groups that reflect fairly-similar levels of game proficiency. For example: - In the U16 age group, the tournament average GF-G is 1.30\. The variance between the lowest/highest GF-G bracket is -17.6%. - Said differently, the variance between the lowest/highest GF-G brackets and the *average age group GF-G* of 1.30 itself is less-than +/-10%. - In our opinion, this data demonstrates that teams with similar strengths have been grouped into well-balanced divisions... where the ability to score is similar across these divisions. Let's highlight: this data does not infer similar strength *across* divisions from the same age group. For example, it's *likel*y that the average team inside the top U16 #1 Champions Division would produce much-higher GF-G against an average team inside the #5 U16 Liberty Division. Coming back to the observed exception. Inside the U18/19 #4 Patriot Division, 18 out-of 98 total division goals (18.4%) were scored inside 2 out-of 48 in-division games (4.2%)... against the same team. This is indeed an outlier, but it's the only one across a 250-team tournament. ## "Top 33%" Team Performances Inside Divisions & Age Groups At SoccerAnalytix, we often segment tournament performances across Top, Mid and Base teams (ie: 1/3 slices). In this case, let's isolate how the Top 1/3 teams inside each division performed: 3 observations: - Is it a coincidence that goal production increases in-relation to age? - These top teams are scoring closer to ≈3 GF-G, higher than their respective entire-division GF-G averages. - The GF-G variances inside these Top 33% division subsets are larger than what we observed within the entire-division GF-G averages. As it relates to higher-performing teams, these larger variances are typical - which we can further dive-into in another post. ## Club Performances Inside the Cup In a tournament such as the Bethesda Premier Cup, it's obvious: clubs join-into the event with multiple age-group teams representing them. In fact, many clubs have a few teams inside a single age group - but they're competing inside different divisions. Is club performance related to the number of teams it has nurtured into this tournament's Top 33% cohort? Consider this: Coming soon - let's analyze MLS NEXT Fest December 2025 results! --- By Richard - From SoccerAnalytix