2019 Schedule Thread

I would also like to point out something no one else has mentioned: We have a match on 9/11. That one's gonna be chilling to be at

Yeah, against Toronto. Something about fighting all enemies foreign and domestic.

I'll be wearing my For Club and Country scarf from the 2014 World Cup.
 
We are going to *hate* the late-season trend. Again.

So we're playing 13 games over the final 9 weeks. I put together the below chart trying to show this stretch in a linear fashion. The chart has our schedule from August 3 until the end of the season, with rows alternating between weekends and weeks. The blanks rows are where we don't have a midweek game.


DATE _| DAY | LOC _| AWAY @
08-03 | SAT | Away | RSL
08-08 | THR | Home |
08-11 | SUN | Away | ATL
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08-17 | SAT | Away | CIN
08-21 | WED | Home |
08-24 | SAT | Home |
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08-31 | SAT | Away | VAN
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09-07 | SAT | Home |
09-11 | WED | Home |
09-14 | SAT | Home |
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09-22 | SUN | Away | DAL
09-25 | WED | Home |
09-29 | SUN | Away | NER
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10-06 | SUN | Away | PHI

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And don't tell me it's fucking Yankee Stadium. Because I don't know why it is easier to play at Yankee Stadium on a Wednesday as opposed to a Saturday or Sunday. Baseball goes all week.
It's Yankee Stadium, and it's not even debatable. The information is in this thread, posted less than a week ago:
http://nycfcforums.com/index.php?threads/2019-schedule.6344/page-6#post-268705

MumonA MumonA identified 12 possible weekend home games. Our schedule uses 10 of those. One of the two we don't use is during an international break. One of the 10 we are using also is during an international break, so the schedule makers split the difference there. That's completely rational and probably in fact the best decision. That leaves just one possibility identified by Mumon that we are not using. That's July 27, a Saturday. We play Friday night July 26 instead. The Yankees play Tuesday July 30. To play on Saturday would require a midsummer afternoon game to comply with the 72 hour rule. We have no midsummer afternoon games this year. Home or away, there are no games before 7pm between May 25 and September 7, except 4pm in Atlanta in August, and that's indoors. You want to kill them for not scheduling the only high sun midsummer early afternoon game, go ahead. But those are the only two areas of wiggle room they have: to play both international dates and a midsummer afternoon game.

I'm sympathetic. My kids are older. Your dilemma sucks.
But it's Yankee Stadium.
 
Downgrading my seats to lowest above GA feels like a win....... and yet I still feel like I'm losing.
 
I honestly not terribly mad at the schedule, as it has a ton of away games on Saturdays. Makes it perfect for travelling weekends. Fly in Friday night, leave Sunday. Fun filled day and a half in a new city. Mini vacations without wasting PTO means more time to waste PTO on longer/more extravagant vacations. Our home schedule sucks ass at times, but to me it's made up in great Away Days.

Also, game #3 vs LAFC is on St. Paddy's day itself. Adding another green scarf to the collection in a drunken manner? CHECK.
Also, Seattle right before the 4th of July and Toronto FC on 9/11 are big games on/before big days in our nation's history.
- With the parade happening on the 16th (the parade never occurs on a Sunday), there is less of a chance LAFC will be a half hour late like Orlando City was last year due to the parade.
 
At least with the Houston game being a weekday game at Yankees Stadium there is a better chance of McNamara get some minutes in front of the crowd.
 
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We're irrelevant. A month ago I linked to the mlssoccer.com post-cup 2019 Preview discussion and noted that NYCFC was not even mentioned. All I got was people jumping down my throat because I dared to treat the MLS panelists as anything other than biased hacks and morons who hate NYCFC. But the networks and sponsors agree. As of now we are not expected to matter in 2019. Maybe we sign a star, and maybe we play above expectations. And maybe people someday will judge ideas without dismissing them because of who said it.
For the record, I’ve been onboard that we’re irrelevant to cup discussions for well on 6-7 months now. And I approve your busting the balls of the sunshine spurter conspiracy theorists. The conspiracy is our shitty ownership, shitty FO and shitty coaching.
 
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Last year wasn't Dome's fault because of midseason takeover, schedule, etc.
Team starts slow in 2019 because -- hey Vieira started slow in 2016, so can't blame Dome.
Team finishes slow in 2019 because of schedule. Can't blame Dome.

Dome back in 2020 with a mediocre-at-best record for 1.5 years.

Every team has weekday games this year. Dome doesn't get that as an excuse.

I do like the fact that we don't have weekday night games until the end of April. Lessens the odds of a brutally cold night game. The only night game the first two months is at Toronto March 29, which could be pretty miserable weather up there. Stacking the midweek games later in the season definitely makes them at least more palatable from a weather perspective.
 
Quick reminder to everyone: remember when I was criticized for being too negative when I complained about the new ticket trade-in program? I even had an extended, heated "discussion" with a senior front office member who disagreed with my assertion that it was beneficial to the team, but likely negative for City members (and at best neutral).

With the schedule out now, it's a little easier to illuatrate my point. Under last year's program if you wanted to trade out of the late April weeknight game against CHI and into the late September Saturday evening game against ATL, you could do it nice and clean.

NOW, you'll have to pay the difference between the CHI deflated price and the ATL inflated price. Based on other teams that tier, that could very easily be a 20-30%+ gap. So if you're average ticket price is $40, you might get $35 credit towards a $45 ticket.

If you have club seats, maybe the upcharge will be $30 or $40.

Curious to see if they screw us over by making the lesser opponent weekend games top tier.

Of course you may want to trade the LAFC tickets for FCC midweek tickets, with the grand plan of accumulating enough credit to do eventually balance everything out, but that goes to my original point. It's at best neutral for STHs and at worst a negative situation where you have to reach for the wallet after fully paying for your season.

And before anyone responds that a higher face value will mean higher realized prices on StubHub, I will respectfully state that I don't think anyone who has regularly sold tickets on StubHub would agree with that.
 
Quick reminder to everyone: remember when I was criticized for being too negative when I complained about the new ticket trade-in program? I even had an extended, heated "discussion" with a senior front office member who disagreed with my assertion that it was beneficial to the team, but likely negative for City members (and at best neutral).

With the schedule out now, it's a little easier to illuatrate my point. Under last year's program if you wanted to trade out of the late April weeknight game against CHI and into the late September Saturday evening game against ATL, you could do it nice and clean.

NOW, you'll have to pay the difference between the CHI deflated price and the ATL inflated price. Based on other teams that tier, that could very easily be a 20-30%+ gap. So if you're average ticket price is $40, you might get $35 credit towards a $45 ticket.

If you have club seats, maybe the upcharge will be $30 or $40.

Curious to see if they screw us over by making the lesser opponent weekend games top tier.

Of course you may want to trade the LAFC tickets for FCC midweek tickets, with the grand plan of accumulating enough credit to do eventually balance everything out, but that goes to my original point. It's at best neutral for STHs and at worst a negative situation where you have to reach for the wallet after fully paying for your season.

And before anyone responds that a higher face value will mean higher realized prices on StubHub, I will respectfully state that I don't think anyone who has regularly sold tickets on StubHub would agree with that.
Maybe i missed something, but since when is there tiered pricing for STH match tickets? I use the ticket trade in program a lot and i hadn’t heard of this. Here is the 2019 trade in info page.
https://www.nycfc.com/2019-city-ticket-trade-in
 
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Maybe i missed something, but since when is there tiered pricing for STH match tickets? I use the ticket trade in program a lot and i hadn’t heard of this. Here is the 2019 trade in info page.
https://www.nycfc.com/2019-city-ticket-trade-in
"
  • Increased flexibility: If you can’t make it to a game, and don’t need additional tickets for another game, you can trade-in those tickets and combine the value to upgrade your seats
"

They sent out an update a few months ago talking about it- how they're going to value prime time games (as they deem fit, of course) at higher and weekday against shitty teams at lower prices and count that in your ticket trade.
 
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  • Increased flexibility: If you can’t make it to a game, and don’t need additional tickets for another game, you can trade-in those tickets and combine the value to upgrade your seats
"

They sent out an update a few months ago talking about it- how they're going to value prime time games (as they deem fit, of course) at higher and weekday against shitty teams at lower prices and count that in your ticket trade.
I thought that meant that you can trade in a bunch of tickets, combine the value and get pitchside or something...
 
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