Lol.
This isn't personal, though it might seem so. Everyone does this. So far nobody else even bothered to respond, so I give you that.
But there's a reason I harp on confirmation bias and I mock eye tests.
I post an massively unexpected fact that completely undermines the standard wisdom, and I get exactly one response - written just 20 minutes later - that basically seizes on the single differential between 2019 and 2021 that I already pointed out, as being the obvious reason the data I presented makes an invalid comparison.
You don't even start with a perfunctory acknowledgment to pretend you actually thought about changing your mind, something like, "wow, that's surprising. I would have expected different, but having considered it I still think he makes them too late and here's why." You jump straight in to why you reject the data.
You don't address the 3-change window limit as if that were so irrelevant (which it's not) that it is not worth mentioning.
You don't claim to have expected that Ronnie is making subs at the same times Dome did. Or that everyone knew this, because that would be BS. Nobody expected this result. I didn't expect this result.
There has not been a conventional wisdom that Ronnie needs to make subs sooner because of the rule change.
Nobody has been saying that. It's just been that Ronnie makes subs late.
Let's be honest, everyone making this criticism thought Ronnie was making subs later than what has always been normal for soccer for the last decade.
Nobody, including me, even knows as of right now, whether Ronnie makes his subs at league average times for MLS 2021, or earlier or later. But the conventional wisdom that he makes them late will live on. Evidence and data just don't matter.
Generally, there are no articles anywhere -- with or without data -- I can find on how coaches have been or should be making changes sooner because of 5 subs. I looked pretty hard.
I can find no data or studies showing that coaches who adjusted to the change by making subs sooner have had more success, or less, or that it does not matter.
It's not something I have heard any announcers in any league saying or discussing.
I'm not aware of any coach who has said that the rule means you should make subs earlier.
Nobody thought about this concept until now when it becomes necessary to contrive a reason not to adjust opinions based on new facts.
It's not you,
moogoo. It's how the world operates, even me more than I would like to admit, and it's depressing, and sports is among the least of the reasons why.