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MLS Playoffs: Does something need fixing?

Seattle Sounders were eliminated from the MLS playoffs on Sunday night. I have seen a lot of discussion about MLS playoff format and its drawbacks in the past few weeks and more of it now that two lower seeds have made it to the MLS Cup final. Photo: MLS Playoff Bracket from mlssoccer.com Both 1st seeds, [...]
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AuthorRavi Ramineni
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Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, MLS, MLS Cup, MLS Playoffs, Playoff format, Seattle Sounders

MLS By The Numbers: A Soccermetric Look At the League

With the new MLS season about to get under way, I thought it’d be interesting to take a quick look back at the last season to generate some baseline information for putting the league and teams in a little bit of a soccermetric perspective. Without too… Read more ›

AuthorChris Anderson
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Colorado Rapids, conversion, goal to shot ratio, LA Galaxy, Major League Soccer, MLS, New York Red Bulls, offensive production, soccermetrics, Statistics

Princes and Paupers: How Pay Inequality Makes Teams Worse, Or Why Paying Thierry Henry Lots Of Money Is A Bad Idea

Following the recent debates about the record-setting transfers in the EPL and the Bundesliga, and with the new MLS season about to get under way, I’ve been thinking about how money relates to success in soccer.Of course, one big question about transfe… Read more ›

AuthorChris Anderson
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Bundesliga, LA Galaxy, Major League Soccer, MLS, New York Red Bulls, Statistics, transfer market