MLS - April 4 - St. Louis (CF)

[mgarbowski]

Didn’t parking used to be $25?

Is NYCFC following the FIFA plan? Parking is more expensive than some tickets. Ooooofff.

It's been going up at Citi every year. I think it was $40 last year and $25 sounds right for back when the team first started playing there regularly. I also think the Mets set these prices.
But since we'll be using the Mets parking even with our own stadium this is unlikely to improve. Given how the club is pricing tickets, it would probably not be any better if the club controlled it either.

 

[canchon]

And they're playing reasonable well despite the record and the opposition.

ASA has their team Goals Added differential at +1.92, ranked 9th in the league and just slightly ahead of us at +1.87.
They also rank 8th in xGD and xPts, while their actual GD and Points rank 20th and T22 respectively.

In sum, their results are lagging far behind their play, which is a stark reversal from their first season and a half, when every shot went in and every opponent gifted them a turnover directly in front of goal. In 2023, St Louis had 56 Points and 44.73 xPts, and their actual GD was almost 19 goals better than the xGD. Oh how the turntables have turned.

If you're wondering, the distance between our Pts and xPts is less than 1, but our actual GD of 7 is more than double our xGD. A lot of the reason those don't line up is we won one game by 5 goals and no matter what you can only get 3 points out of that. The Orlando game was worth 2.89 xPts.

I remember that first season when it was inconceivable how many dumb mistakes and breaks they were getting to score easy breakdown goals. What was even more funny was their (new) fans trying to explain that their press was something MLS hadn’t ever seen before and it was skill that was allowing them to get so many of these goals.

Regression is a rough game sometimes.