2017 Schedule Thread

[LionNYC]

Two days until the schedule is released!

Finally, some NYCFC news will be announced.

Unfortunately, this news is brought to you by the league office and not our front office.

 

[Jon]

Two days until the schedule is released!

Finally, some NYCFC news will be announced.

Unfortunately, this news is brought to you by the league office and not our front office.

Was this ever confirmed?

 

[mgarbowski]

Was this ever confirmed?

I don't think so. There's one tweet from RSL, which is better than some random source, but MLS is officially silent on the matter. So we can hope.

 

[Taurus]

Was this ever confirmed?

We know that it will be before the draft which is on Friday plus the tweet @mgarbowski mentioned.

"The complete regular season schedule, along with the national television schedules for the U.S. and Canada, will be announced in January, prior to the 2017 MLS SuperDraft presented by adidas."

http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/mls-announces-2017-home-openers-all-22-clubs

 

[Jon]

We know that it will be before the draft which is on Friday plus the tweet @mgarbowski mentioned.

"The complete regular season schedule, along with the national television schedules for the U.S. and Canada, will be announced in January, prior to the 2017 MLS SuperDraft presented by adidas."

http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/mls-announces-2017-home-openers-all-22-clubs

I'm going to be in Chicago beginning of May and Florida for a few weeks in July. I'd love to see them play in both places.

 

[Gotham Gator]

We know that it will be before the draft which is on Friday plus the tweet @mgarbowski mentioned.

"The complete regular season schedule, along with the national television schedules for the U.S. and Canada, will be announced in January, prior to the 2017 MLS SuperDraft presented by adidas."

http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/mls-announces-2017-home-openers-all-22-clubs

That can be read to mean "sometime between now and the draft", or it could be read to mean "on the day of the draft, right before it starts".

I am guessing it is supposed to be the later.

 

[Taurus]

I'm going to be in Chicago beginning of May and Florida for a few weeks in July. I'd love to see them play in both places.

I have yet to make it to an away game. Hoping to make one this year as well.

 

[Jon]

I have yet to make it to an away game. Hoping to make one this year as well.

We're very fortunate to have so many teams nearby... You got 5 teams within a 5 hour drive.

 

[mgarbowski]

We know that it will be before the draft which is on Friday plus the tweet @mgarbowski mentioned.

"The complete regular season schedule, along with the national television schedules for the U.S. and Canada, will be announced in January, prior to the 2017 MLS SuperDraft presented by adidas."

http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/mls-announces-2017-home-openers-all-22-clubs

The press release did say that, but the article MLS posted to its own website was stealth edited. It originally said the same thing but was changed to say just "next month." They can't stealth edit the press release or reporters would scorch them. So MLS walked back from that commitment as much as they could.
And so has RSL. In a more recent tweet yesterday when someone else asked when the schedule would be released they hedged "hopefully Thursday"

https://twitter.com/x/status/818596182817734656

I think Thursday is the plan but they are not sure they will be ready. My guess now is that coordinating the TV input to the schedule is the last piece. They just made a new deal in Canada this week.

 

[LionNYC]

THURSDAY OFFICIAL! Wait, that's TOMORROW!

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/...7-regular-season-schedule-thursday-january-12

 

[Taurus]

Or they can decrease the number of clubs we would play 3x's. Last year played 6 clubs 3x's. It would have to be 3 clubs 3x's for 2017

Read again, that's not the issue. The issue is you can't make an odd number of teams (11) play an odd number of games (3) against each other, it just doesn't work out.

What am I missing?

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/...7-regular-season-schedule-thursday-january-12

 

[mgarbowski]

What am I missing?

It's a math/logic problem
http://nycfcforums.com/index.php?threads/2017-schedule-thread.5139/#post-174074

 

[mgarbowski]

THURSDAY OFFICIAL! Wait, that's TOMORROW!

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/...7-regular-season-schedule-thursday-january-12

But we want it now.

 

[Taurus]

It's a math/logic problem
http://nycfcforums.com/index.php?threads/2017-schedule-thread.5139/#post-174074

Conundrum

 

[LionNYC]

But we want it now.

Hopefully it's early tomorrow rather than waiting and refreshing Twitter all day afternoon.

 

[JayH]

Hopefully it's early tomorrow rather than waiting and refreshing Twitter all day afternoon.

Or announced for noon. But then pushed back prompting hours of waiting-themed gifs and memes, and furious taps on F5. And then released at 3pm.

 

[mgarbowski]

Hopefully it's early tomorrow rather than waiting and refreshing Twitter all day afternoon.

Last year it was supposed to be 2pm and ended up closer to 4pm, which led to:

If someone would have told me just a few years ago that there would be a day where I was glued to the computer awaiting the release of the MLS schedule, I would have told them that they were fcking nuts.

 

[Gotham Gator]

As in recent seasons, the 2017 regular season schedule will see each club playing other teams in their own conference two or three times during the campaign, while facing the 11 teams in the opposite conference just once.​

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/...7-regular-season-schedule-thursday-january-12

 

[canchon]

Or announced for noon. But then pushed back prompting hours of waiting-themed gifs and memes, and furious taps on F5. And then released at 3pm.

#MLSScheduleisLateBecause

 

[Seth]

Are we that desperate here that we'll put up three pages of posts on the how late an official announcement may or may not be?

Spoiler

Yes.