Houston is home. The only west teams we have left to play away is LA, who have been terrible at home, and Colorado
2017 Schedule Thread
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Does that score that mlssoccer.com put out consider other factors such as home/away?
For example, Houston is pretty strong this year, but are awful on the road, and we have them at Yankee Stadium. On a strange flip side, we are at LAG this year and they cannot seem to figure it out at home.
For our other tougher West games, those are also at home with SKC and Portland.
Yes, the strength of schedule does not just look at the average points of the teams that you play. It uses each opponent's average home or away points depending on where you play them. So, we benefit - oddly - from playing LA in LA, where they have been poor.
My mistake. So we really only have to deal with our Eastern Conference opponents...
Don't remind me of that RSL shitshow.
What I found interesting was this in a related article from 3 days ago. Over the last two seasons, only 2 teams below the playoff line in points per game at this point in the year ended up making the playoffs.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017...-through-and-their-playoff-odds-going-forward
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017...-through-and-their-playoff-odds-going-forward
If we resort to "points per game," which offers a better correlation to a team's final standing, only two teams have entered the playoff field after being on the outside after 55 percent of the season: the 2015 New England Revolution and, of course, the 2016 Seattle Sounders who made a dramatic run to MLS Cup. They made it at the expense of Orlando City SC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC in their respective conferences.
Better be a good game if I am staying up until 1 AM to watch
That is a shit move by MLS and the networks. There is no reason why west teams hosting east ones can't start their games by 7pm pacific time. Even that's pushing it - 4pm PT is perfect for both coasts on a Saturday.
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If a game is played on national TV but nobody is awake to watch it, did it happen?
I can't imagine that ESPN prefers that a game between 2 of the biggest markets in the country start at bedtime for one of those markets. It also seems unlikely that they bumped this game in favor of a semifinal of the Rogers Cup which is what's on in prime time. Is there something else driving this?
They changed the station from FS1 to ESPN2. I find that to be the oddest part.
That is odd. FS1 is showing the US Women's Amateur Golf Semifinals. Can't believe that's driving this either.
I checked and the original time for this game when the schedule was released in January was 8pm.
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