2018 Schedule
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With a wildcard every week like last year, it won't be a problem at all.
No, it won't be a problem, but it should result in more of a rotation of players selected. As I've noticed the last 2 years, by mid-season there ends up being around 3-5 guys that is on every fantasy team's roster. With more teams having bye weeks, and without diving too deep into the schedule, probably more of a rotation of mid-week games, I think there will be less of the same players on every roster (at least on a week-to-week basis).
Fantasy lost all interest once they went to an every week wild card.
Yeah I didn't enjoy it as much this year. Fantasy soccer is just a little bit awkward. I'm switching to pick'ems next season.
One interesting observation on the schedule.
For both of our "rivalry" opponents, we play 2 games at home and only 1 on the road. This just continues the original rotation with Orlando and New Jersey - they both got the extra home game against us last year.
We make up these extra home games by playing 7 of the West teams on the road and only getting 5 of them at home.
For both of our "rivalry" opponents, we play 2 games at home and only 1 on the road. This just continues the original rotation with Orlando and New Jersey - they both got the extra home game against us last year.
We make up these extra home games by playing 7 of the West teams on the road and only getting 5 of them at home.
Ha!
PS: At first I thought you were referring to that fact we don't play Atlanta on June 3. We play them at home June 9. My answer to that would be that the previous game is June 2, so June 3 is when we know if the team is undefeated and can start working on that tifo with confidence.
Which is pure after the fact BS, because I just got the date wrong.
I'd take more Eastern Conference games at home. They are always a six point swing in terms of playoff seeding.
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We have the 4th longest schedule of Eastern Conference teams in terms of travel. ~4K miles more than Red Bulls, ~9K more than Toronto.
We have the 4th longest schedule of Eastern Conference teams in terms of travel. ~4K miles more than Red Bulls, ~9K more than Toronto.
Most of that likely due to NYC having 7 West Conference Away games while RB and TFC presumably have only 6. As you noted, we probably prefer the odd extra East conference Home game, but this is the price for that.
ETA: By "most" I mean the difference between NYC and RB. The extra 5k with Toronto is a puzzler and would take more investigation than I'm willing to give..
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I did some back of the envelope stuff and this could explain all of it. Toronto is 100-300 air miles closer than NYC to 5-6 MLS cities I tested. Take 200 miles as the average, which is 400 round trip, times 17 equals 6,800 miles. That's enough to explain the whole difference with our added West coast trip added in. Same seems true for Atlanta.
This league needs to grow up and allow teams to charter flights for all away games. It's pathetic at this point that you have teams owned by billionaires flying their players commercial.
Two more seasons of incremental TAM/Cap increases and another collective bargaining agreement, and Parity will pretty much be out the door. It’s gonna be painfully obvious the difference between teams that use the discretionary TAM and those that don’t, and there’s gonna be no going back after that.
But also with that increase in use, and subsequent better TAM level signings, you’ll have those players demanding from the CBA better travel treatment and the lower wage players demanding some sort of perk/benefit. Charter flights are the easiest route that doesn’t increase overal wage spending but helps the product on the field. The cheap teams will probably balk at it and not use all opportunities, so another nail in parity’s coffin.
Totally agreed, and I bet within a couple of seasons we'll see Garber actively shopping the existing franchises with less capitalized ownership groups to wealthier interested parties.
Great points, you also have to think that newer ownership groups with more money will start outnumbering original MLS 1.0 owners. Maybe they get rid of the salary cap and impose some sort of luxury tax with revenue sharing.
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