Of the teams I have seen and or played I would rank the following tier1: (no sig in order listed) Buckeye Heat 97, Static 97, Lasers Orange, Classics 97, - right behind them at tier 2 would be: Buckeye elite, Hawks Buelow, lasers gray, vipers silver, hawks lenos and others that i know are tough (most of these I have not seen play): static 98, hawks shepherd, nightmare, Nitro, Hawks Hoff 97 - and I know there are more - one thing that keeps some very good teams from getting recognized is the tourneys they play in .. for example the Metro was a great one to have your team seen and measured up against the best 14u's .. if you are not playing those teams, your team can't be accurately measured and get credit for how good they are. It always amazes me how many really good teams schedule around the harder venues.
All in all the 14u age is very interesting - there are a lot of very good teams that any given game can win- that was evidenced by the very few blowouts at 14u last weekend in the Metro - several 3-5 run wins but that is normal - very few RR's at all....