General MLS Discussion

[ZYanksRule]

Philly has nothing to play for, technically, right?

They don't, but I feel like we go through things like that every season and it doesn't really matter. Philly probably isn't resting guys after already having a week off due to the international window, so odds are it's going to be a representative game. Plus you don't know how the pressure of needing to win impacts Charlotte.

 

[Shwafta]

Miami wins, Orlando loses.

In short, a NYCFC win and CHA loss/tie gets us the 4-seed.

If we tie or lose, Nashville can slip ahead of us with a win vs Miami.

If we win, we are guaranteed no worse than the 5-seed, which locks us in to a first-round series against Charlotte. Slipping to a 6-seed would set us up to face either Cincy or Miami in the first round.

If we win, Nashville win, Charlotte lose, don't we have the tie against Nashville?

 

[mgarbowski]

If we win, Nashville win, Charlotte lose, don't we have the tie against Nashville?

If we win we have more points than Nashville. That’s why ZYanksRule is correct.

 

[Shwafta]

If we win we have more points than Nashville. That’s why ZYanksRule is correct.

Yeah but why would the tie be against Charlotte in that case? Nashville would go above Charlotte and we'd be playing Nashville... No?

By tie I mean we will be playing against.

 

[mgarbowski]

By tie I mean we will be playing against.

This is one of many reasons I hate the stupid US soccer fan affectation of adopting UK language usage.
Please don't waste my time using words in needlessly ambiguous ways.
I wrote an answer to the question you asked using standard American English, but not the question in the foreign slang secretly in your head.

 

[Shwafta]

This is one of many reasons I hate the stupid US soccer fan affectation of adopting UK language usage.
Please don't waste my time using words in needlessly ambiguous ways.

I'll be honest it didn't even occur to me, I just use the word that way because I've heard and seen it used for so long in multiple sports, and since I was thinking of the playoff matchup I wasn't even thinking of "tie" in the way you were

 

[ZYanksRule]

If we win, Nashville win, Charlotte lose, don't we have the tie against Nashville?

In your British slang, yes -- in that scenario we would play Nashville.

I think what I was trying to say is that we want to stay out of the 6-seed so we don't have to play Miami or Cincy.

 

[Shwafta]

In your British slang, yes -- in that scenario we would play Nashville.

I think what I was trying to say is that we want to stay out of the 6-seed so we don't have to play Miami or Cincy.

Bloody brilliant, that.
Smashing, really

 

[moogoo]

are we doing a 2025 playoff thread and/or a forum bracket challenge this year?

 

[Gene]

Here's my bracket. Yeah, I went there.

https://bracket.mlssoccer.com/predictor/c1cda523-b8ab-410b-b11a-9686383f9a0a/brackets/me

 

[moogoo]

Here's my bracket. Yeah, I went there.

https://bracket.mlssoccer.com/predictor/c1cda523-b8ab-410b-b11a-9686383f9a0a/brackets/me

the link just takes you to start your own personal bracket. if you want to share, can you take a screenshot and post?

I created a league for us: https://bracket.mlssoccer.com/my-leagues?join=Eq9byP

i couldn't name it NYCFC_Forums cause apparently "Forums" is a bad word.

 

[Gene]

Screen shot? I'll have to wait until my daughter gets home from work.

 

[Gene]

 

[Gene]

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IT WORKED!

 

[moogoo]

IT WORKED!

if you joined the league, you can view everyone's bracket who is in the league by clicking on their username.

i also set up my bracket based on my heart instead of my head.

 

[FootyLovin]

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It’s not impossible.

 

[ZYanksRule]

I think we beat Philly in the conference semifinal. That's my hot take. We played them really tough in the regular season and I don't think this team goes quietly into the offseason.

 

[gbservis]

I think we beat Philly in the conference semifinal. That's my hot take. We played them really tough in the regular season and I don't think this team goes quietly into the offseason.

At our best I think we can beat any team in the league but we are so inconsistent. We could come out flat and loose the first round or get hot and make the conference finals.

Im hopeful we will be more consistent next season in year 2 with Pascal and Nico fully integrated but this playoffs looks like a total crapshoot to me.

 

[moogoo]

At our best I think we can beat any team in the league but we are so inconsistent. We could come out flat and loose the first round or get hot and make the conference finals.

Im hopeful we will be more consistent next season in year 2 with Pascal and Nico fully integrated but this playoffs looks like a total crapshoot to me.

I agree. It's really a complete tossup. Playing in charlotte is a tossup with that horrible surface. We have never won in Charlotte and head to head have only one win against charlotte (this year at home). They will be feeling pretty damn good going into this matchup against us.

I would love it if we somehow were able to put together 5 of the greatest games this team is capable of in a row and lift the cup but the chances of that happening are very slim. They are capable, but yes, so inconsistent. I'd feel a lot better if we showed more consistently throughout the season and got all those points we dropped to crappy teams.

 

[moogoo]

messi renews through 2028. that means he'll be playing at etihad park potentially 2 times. how many pink fans will there be at those games, i wonder....