Official Schedule Discussion

[einwindir]

 

[LionNYC]

It's 12 AM, Thursday, January 7 on the East Coast (Yankee Stadium, NYCFC headquarters, and MLS Headquarters), where is the damn schedule?

Or are we going by CFG headquarters where it should have been released 9 hours ago? Or Manchester City headquarters which would have been 5 hours ago?

 

[413Blue]

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...laxy-red-bulls-need-new-coach-mix-diskerud-ru

2. MLS SCHEDULE OUT TODAY

The wait is over. On Wednesday afternoon the complete 2015 MLS regular season will be released along with national TV details for every weekend of the new campaign. Check back on MLSsoccer.com for all the dates.

Does anyone else think that may mean flex-scheduling?

 

[Gene]

I might be wrong, but I thought I did read somewhere they were going to have some sort of flex scheduling like the NFL to make sure the national games would be attractive; especially towards the back end of the schedule.

 

[Nicholas Constantino]

What's flex scheduling?

 

[413Blue]

I might be wrong, but I thought I did read somewhere they were going to have some sort of flex scheduling like the NFL to make sure the national games would be attractive; especially towards the back end of the schedule.

Possibly. People on another forum have said they remember hearing that, but can't find a source.

What's flex scheduling?

It's a system in which a portion of the season's schedule is not fully released. The NFL does it in the last four weeks I believe. Basically, the matchups for each week are set, but date and time are TBA and will be picked by the networks in order to avoid having two crap teams playing Sunday Night Football at the end of the year.
Now that I think about, the Philly leaked schedule had two TBA matches on it right?

 

[Gene]

I was typing out a detailed explanation, but ^^^ sums it up short and sweet!

 

[MagnusPax]

Possibly. People on another forum have said they remember hearing that, but can't find a source.


It's a system in which a portion of the season's schedule is not fully released. The NFL does it in the last four weeks I believe. Basically, the matchups for each week are set, but date and time are TBA and will be picked by the networks in order to avoid having two crap teams playing Sunday Night Football at the end of the year.
Now that I think about, the Philly leaked schedule had two TBA matches on it right?

Most likely it will be all released today, unless there are some shenanigans.
MLS usually releases the whole thing at once.

Those TBAs on Philly's schedule are for playoffs (ha, as if!).

 

[413Blue]

So the schedule is now out on the MLSsoccer.com schedule page, but no official press release as of yet.
Flex scheduling is in play for the final two weeks.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule?m..._type=all&op=Search&form_id=mls_schedule_form

And the NYCFC schedule: 12 national TV games.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule?m..._type=all&op=Search&form_id=mls_schedule_form

At Red Bull May 10 and August 9.
Vs. Red Bull June 28

 

[Christian]

4th of July and we have to play in Montreal? What BS.

I guess to be fair we'll have these issues scheduling against baseball. Still disappointing.

 

[LostAnvil]

Damn... no home games with LAG - so no Gerrard

 

[NYCFCFan10]

Interesting how NY plays LA in late August when both teams will have all their stars...

 

[leilanikali420]

So we get Seattle at home, but are away for Galaxy. I can deal with that.

 

[NYCFCFan10]

Could be a lot of seats available at RBA come May 10th.

We could have a blackout at RBA

 

[413Blue]

Please NYCFC-RBNY come up with a fair system to allocate supporter seats. Me first, then go by seniority!

 

[LostAnvil]

Still not confirmed, but here are the teams we might be facing at home:

NE (x2)
SKC
Philly
Portland
Seattle
Chicago
Houston
Montreal (x2)
NYRB
Toronto (x2)
Orlando
DC
Columbus
San Jose

Edit: with that, we might not be playing:
Colorado
Dallas
LA
RSL (dangnabbit!)
Vancouver

 

[MagnusPax]

So the schedule is now out on the MLSsoccer.com schedule page, but no official press release as of yet.
Flex scheduling is in play for the final two weeks.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule?m..._type=all&op=Search&form_id=mls_schedule_form

And the NYCFC schedule: 12 national TV games.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule?m..._type=all&op=Search&form_id=mls_schedule_form

At Red Bull May 10 and August 9.
Vs. Red Bull June 28

There is no flex. Those are open dates for potential playoffs. That's up to Frank I guess.

 

[413Blue]

There is no flex. Those are open dates for potential playoffs. That's up to Frank I guess.

Nope, it's regular season flex scheduling.
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http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...5-schedule-decision-day-finale-and-expanded-p
MLS and its broadcast partners have also introduced flex scheduling for the second-to-last weekend of the regular season which will allow Univision, ESPN and FOX Sports to decide to telecast late in the season the matches that matter most in the standings.

In addition to the flex scheduling option in week 33 of the season, the last day of the 2015 regular season will see MLS unveil its new “Decision Day” scheduling format.

All five games in the Eastern Conference will be played concurrently on Sunday, October 25 at 5 pm ET, with one game airing on FOX Sports 1 and one game on UniMás. Immediately following, all five Western Conference matches will be played at 7 pm ET, with one game airing on ESPN2 and one game on UniMás.

 

[MagnusPax]

Oh joy something new. We needed that...

I hope selling our souls to espn and Fox was worth it.

 

[einwindir]

I was going to type it out but I'm currently on my phone. If someone else has already done this, let me know and i'll remove it. When I get in front of a desktop I'll transcribe it.