Actually, the current wait of more than a month (since the last Blowout Comb was dished out) is nothing much, as compared to the longest wait (91 days!) for the 1st Comb in 2004... Also, IICC (If I Calculated/Computed Correctly), the longest gap within a season between Blowout Combs would be 56 days, between the following 2 games: http://aragon.ws/soccerdb/league/matchesAll.php?stageId=136 2005-05-14 Columbus Crew - Sporting Kansas City 0 - 4 2005-07-09 CD Chivas USA - Real Salt Lake 5 - 1
Seventh Update of 2013: Montreal may be among the select few "Halfway Leaders" who have received Blowout Combs (more on that later) during Regular Season (more on those for playoffs as well): 2013-07-13 New York Red Bulls 4 - 0 Montreal Impact Summary of Comb Counts/% for the Current Season: Season Combs Games % Remarks 2013 7 182 3.846 *** Through July-14 To surpass the % record set in 2001, 20 more Blowout Combs (for 27 Combs in total) are needed for the remainder of the season (323-182=141 Games in total). Quite unlikely that this will materialize (given that the most # of Combs in a season was 13, set in 2001 as well), though we'll never know... The 2013 "Comb Standings" so far: Code: Rank SS# Team CF CA CD 01 08 L.A. 2 1 +1 [Mar-3: 4-0 Chicago, May-26: 4-0 Seattle, Jun-2: 0-5 N.E.] 02 02 K.C. 1 0 +1 [May-5: 4-0 Chivas] 03 06 N.Y. 1 0 +1 [Jul-13: 4-0 Montreal] 04 10 HOU. 1 0 +1 [May-8: 4-0 D.C.] 05 13 N.E. 1 0 +1 [Jun-2: 5-0 L.A.] 06 12 SEA. 1 1 +0 [May-11: 4-0 S.J., May-26: 0-4 L.A.] -------------------------------- 07 01 RSL. 0 0 0 08 03 PTL. 0 0 0 09 04 VAN. 0 0 0 10 07 DAL. 0 0 0 11 09 PHI. 0 0 0 12 11 COL. 0 0 0 13 15 CLB. 0 0 0 14 18 TOR. 0 0 0 -------------------------------- 15 05 MTL. 0 1 -1 [Jul-13: 0-4 N.Y.] 16 14 S.J. 0 1 -1 [May-11: 0-4 Seattle] 17 16 CHI. 0 1 -1 [May-5: 0-4 K.C.] 18 17 CHV. 0 1 -1 [Mar-3: 0-4 L.A.] 19 19 D.C. 0 1 -1 [May-8: 0-4 Houston]
Eighth Update of 2013: The Aug-24/25 weekend was well worth the long wait for Blowout Combs since July-13: A new record was set, for the most number of Blowout Combs (3) within the same weekend: 2013-08-24 Montreal Impact - Houston Dynamo 5 - 0 2013-08-24 Real Salt Lake - Columbus Crew 4 - 0 2013-08-25 New England Revolution - Philadelphia Union 5 - 1 The only other time 3 Blowout Combs have happened within the same week was back in 2010: https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/the-blowout-comb-thread.1922805/page-5#post-28528992 2010-05-05 New England Revolution - CD Chivas USA 0 - 4 2010-05-08 San Jose Earthquakes - New York Red Bulls 4 - 0 2010-05-08 Seattle Sounders FC - Los Angeles Galaxy 0 - 4 It was also the only 4th time in MLS History more than 1 Blowout Combs has happened on the same match day: https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/the-blowout-comb-thread.1922805/page-5#post-28528225 Summary of Comb Counts/% for the Current Season: Season Combs Games % Remarks 2013 10 239 4.184 *** Through Aug-25 To surpass the % record set in 2001, 17 more Blowout Combs (for 27 Combs in total) are needed for the remainder of the season (323-239=84 Games in total). Quite unlikely that this will materialize (given that the most # of Combs in a season was 13, set in 2001 as well), though we'll never know... The 2013 "Comb Standings" so far: Code: Rank SS# Team CF CA CD 01 12 N.E. 2 0 +2 [Jun-2: 5-0 L.A., Aug-25: 5-1 Phily] 02 03 L.A. 2 1 +1 [Mar-3: 4-0 Chicago, May-26: 4-0 Seattle, Jun-2: 0-5 N.E.] 03 01 RSL. 1 0 +1 [Aug-24: 4-0 Columbus] 04 04 N.Y. 1 0 +1 [Jul-13: 4-0 Montreal] 05 05 K.C. 1 0 +1 [May-5: 4-0 Chivas] -------------------------------- 06 02 MTL. 1 1 +0 [Jul-13: 0-4 N.Y., Aug-24: 5-0 Houston] 07 09 SEA. 1 1 +0 [May-11: 4-0 S.J., May-26: 0-4 L.A.] 08 13 HOU. 1 1 +0 [May-8: 4-0 D.C., Aug-24: 0-5 Montreal] -------------------------------- 09 06 COL. 0 0 0 10 07 PTL. 0 0 0 11 10 DAL. 0 0 0 12 11 VAN. 0 0 0 13 18 TOR. 0 0 0 -------------------------------- 14 08 PHI. 0 1 -1 [Aug-25: 1-5 N.E.] 15 14 CHI. 0 1 -1 [May-5: 0-4 K.C.] 16 15 S.J. 0 1 -1 [May-11: 0-4 Seattle] 17 16 CLB. 0 1 -1 [Aug-24: 0-4 RSL] 18 17 CHV. 0 1 -1 [Mar-3: 0-4 L.A.] 19 19 D.C. 0 1 -1 [May-8: 0-4 Houston]
In fact, Houston and Montreal, the other 2 Un-Combed Teams through 2012, had their streaks snapped in 2013 too...
Ninth Update of 2013: Portland and TFC have finally made it to the chart of Blowout Combs in 2013: 2013-09-08 Portland Timbers - Toronto FC 4 - 0 Summary of Comb Counts/% for the Current Season: Season Combs Games % Remarks 2013 11 260 (out of 323) 4.231 *** Through Sep-11 Now, only 2 more combs are needed, to break the record for the most # of Blowout Combs in a season (13, set in 2001)... However, to surpass the % record set in 2001 (13/158=8.228%), 16 more Blowout Combs (for 27 Combs in total) are needed for the remainder of the season (323-260=63 Games in total). It's almost impossible that this will materialize... The 2013 "Comb Standings" so far: Code: Rank SS# Team CF CA CD 01 12 N.E. 2 0 +2 [Jun-02: 5-0 L.A., Aug-25: 5-1 PHI.] 02 06 L.A. 2 1 +1 [Mar-03: 4-0 CHI., May-26: 4-0 SEA., Jun-02: 0-5 N.E.] 03 01 RSL. 1 0 +1 [Aug-24: 4-0 CLB.] 04 04 N.Y. 1 0 +1 [Jul-13: 4-0 MTL.] 05 05 K.C. 1 0 +1 [May-05: 4-0 CHV.] 10 07 POR. 1 0 +1 [Sep-08: 4-0 TOR.] -------------------------------- 06 02 SEA. 1 1 +0 [May-11: 4-0 S.J., May-26: 0-4 L.A.] 07 03 MTL. 1 1 +0 [Jul-13: 0-4 N.Y., Aug-24: 5-0 HOU.] 08 13 HOU. 1 1 +0 [May-08: 4-0 D.C., Aug-24: 0-5 MTL.] -------------------------------- 09 08 COL. 0 0 0 11 09 DAL. 0 0 0 12 11 VAN. 0 0 0 -------------------------------- 14 10 PHI. 0 1 -1 [Aug-25: 1-5 N.E.] 15 14 S.J. 0 1 -1 [May-11: 0-4 SEA.] 16 15 CHI. 0 1 -1 [May-05: 0-4 K.C.] 17 16 CLB. 0 1 -1 [Aug-24: 0-4 RSL.] 18 17 CHV. 0 1 -1 [Mar-03: 0-4 L.A.] 13 18 TOR. 0 1 -1 [Sep-08: 0-4 POR.] 19 19 D.C. 0 1 -1 [May-08: 0-4 HOU.]
Tenth Update of 2013: Chivas USA became the first team in 2013 to suffer 2 Blowout Combs: 2013-09-21 Houston Dynamo - Chivas USA 5 - 1 Summary of Comb Counts/% for the Current Season: Season Combs Games % Remarks 2013 12 277 (out of 323) 4.332 *** Through Sep-21 Now, only 1 more combs are needed, to break the record for the most # of Blowout Combs in a season (13, set in 2001)... However, to surpass the % record set in 2001 (13/158=8.228%), 15 more Blowout Combs (for 27 Combs in total) are needed for the remainder of the season (323-277=46 Games in total). It's almost impossible that this will materialize... The 2013 "Comb Standings" so far: Code: Rank SS# Team CF CA CD 01 12 N.E. 2 0 +2 [Jun-02: 5-0 L.A., Aug-25: 5-1 PHI.] -------------------------------- 02 06 L.A. 2 1 +1 [Mar-03: 4-0 CHI., May-26: 4-0 SEA., Jun-02: 0-5 N.E.] 03 09 HOU. 2 1 +1 [May-08: 4-0 D.C., Aug-24: 0-5 MTL., Sep-21: 5-1 CHV.] -------------------------------- 04 02 RSL. 1 0 +1 [Aug-24: 4-0 CLB.] 05 03 N.Y. 1 0 +1 [Jul-13: 4-0 MTL.] 06 04 K.C. 1 0 +1 [May-05: 4-0 CHV.] 07 05 POR. 1 0 +1 [Sep-08: 4-0 TOR.] -------------------------------- 08 01 SEA. 1 1 +0 [May-11: 4-0 S.J., May-26: 0-4 L.A.] 09 07 MTL. 1 1 +0 [Jul-13: 0-4 N.Y., Aug-24: 5-0 HOU.] -------------------------------- 10 08 COL. 0 0 0 11 13 DAL. 0 0 0 12 10 VAN. 0 0 0 -------------------------------- 13 15 PHI. 0 1 -1 [Aug-25: 1-5 N.E.] 14 11 S.J. 0 1 -1 [May-11: 0-4 SEA.] 15 14 CHI. 0 1 -1 [May-05: 0-4 K.C.] 16 16 CLB. 0 1 -1 [Aug-24: 0-4 RSL.] 17 18 TOR. 0 1 -1 [Sep-08: 0-4 POR.] 18 19 D.C. 0 1 -1 [May-08: 0-4 HOU.] -------------------------------- 19 17 CHV. 0 2 -2 [Mar-03: 0-4 L.A., Sep-21: 1-5 HOU.]
Could they get the Wooden Spoon Double? (bottom of regular season and blowout comb standings) Double Spoon?
Very unlikely, Chivas only have 3% chance of winning the Regular Season Spoon this season: http://www.sportsclubstats.com/USA/MLS.html On the opposite, D.C. United are now 97% certain of the Reg. Season Spoon, they just need 1 or 2 more Blowout Combs to complete the "Spoon Double" in 2013.
By the way, through the history of the league, the "Spoon + Combs (Most Suffered) Double" was achieved 5 times in the following seasons: 1998 - N.E. 2001 - T.B. 2003 - DAL. 2006 - CLB. 2011 - VAN. On the other hand, the "Shield + Combs (Most dished out) Double" was achieved 5 times too, by the following teams (twice by L.A.): 1998 - L.A. 2001 - MIA. 2006 - D.C. 2010 - L.A. 2012 - S.J.
Houston are in fact holding the record for the "Longest Uncombed Streaks for a Team since its Inception": Houston: 7+ seasons (243 Games: 2006-04-02 to 2013-08-17) This is, in fact, much longer than the previous record holder, L.A., both in terms of the count of seasons and games: Through Sep-22, 2013, the longest on-going Comb-less Streak still belongs to Colorado: Colorado: 234 (through 2012) + 30 (games in 2013) = 264 games (2004-09-25 to 2013-09-22, almost 10 seasons!!!)
Eleventh Update of 2013: Chivas USA became the first team in 2013 to suffer 3 Blowout Combs: 2013-10-07 Los Angeles Galaxy - CD Chivas USA 5 - 0 Both Chivas USA & SS-chasing Seattle suffered from "First-Half-Comb" (i.e. 4 goals down by HT) this week. Seattle actually had their 2nd "First-Half-Comb" after May-26 (down 0-4 to L.A. by HT). 2013-10-05 Colorado Rapids - Seattle Sounders FC 5 - 1 Summary of Comb Counts/% for the Current Season: Season Combs Games % Remarks 2013 14 296 (out of 323) 4.730 *** Through Oct-7 The record for the most # of Blowout Combs in a season (13, set in 2001) is now broken!! However, to surpass the % record set in 2001 (13/158=8.228%), 13 more Blowout Combs (for 27 Combs in total) are still needed for the remainder of the season (323-296=27 Games in total). This would be almost 1 Blowout Comb in every 2 Games, which is almost impossible to materialize... The 2013 "Comb Standings" so far: Code: Rank SS# Team CF CA CD 01 06 L.A. 3 1 +1 [Mar-03: 4-0 CHI., May-26: 4-0 SEA., Jun-02: 0-5 N.E., Oct-06: 5-0 CHV.] -------------------------------- 02 13 N.E. 2 0 +2 [Jun-02: 5-0 L.A., Aug-25: 5-1 PHI.] -------------------------------- 03 08 HOU. 2 1 +1 [May-08: 4-0 D.C., Aug-24: 0-5 MTL., Sep-21: 5-1 CHV.] -------------------------------- 04 01 N.Y. 1 0 +1 [Jul-13: 4-0 MTL.] 05 02 RSL. 1 0 +1 [Aug-24: 4-0 CLB.] 06 03 K.C. 1 0 +1 [May-05: 4-0 CHV.] 07 05 POR. 1 0 +1 [Sep-08: 4-0 TOR.] 08 07 COL. 1 0 +1 [Oct-05: 5-1 SEA.] -------------------------------- 09 09 MTL. 1 1 +0 [Jul-13: 0-4 N.Y., Aug-24: 5-0 HOU.] -------------------------------- 10 14 VAN. 0 0 0 11 15 DAL. 0 0 0 -------------------------------- 12 04 SEA. 1 2 -1 [May-11: 4-0 S.J., May-26: 0-4 L.A., Oct-05: 1-5 COL.] -------------------------------- 13 10 PHI. 0 1 -1 [Aug-25: 1-5 N.E.] 14 11 S.J. 0 1 -1 [May-11: 0-4 SEA.] 15 12 CHI. 0 1 -1 [May-05: 0-4 K.C.] 16 16 CLB. 0 1 -1 [Aug-24: 0-4 RSL.] 17 18 TOR. 0 1 -1 [Sep-08: 0-4 POR.] 18 19 D.C. 0 1 -1 [May-08: 0-4 HOU.] -------------------------------- 19 17 CHV. 0 3 -3 [Mar-03: 0-4 L.A., Sep-21: 1-5 HOU., Oct-06: 0-5 L.A.]
One year on, a re-look at the All-Time Comb Standings, through Oct-10, 2013: Code: Rank AT# Team CF CA CD CT Ssn CD/Ssn CT/Ssn 01 01 L.A. 21 06 15 27 18 +0.833 1.500 02 12 HOU. 07 01 06 08 08 +0.750 1.000 03 10 S.J. 16 05 11 21 16 +0.688 1.313 04 06 CHI. 09 04 05 13 16 +0.313 0.813 05 17 MIA. 04 03 01 07 04 +0.250 1.750 06 18 PHI. 02 01 01 03 04 +0.250 0.750 07 11 RSL. 07 05 02 12 09 +0.222 1.333 08 14 SEA. 05 04 01 09 05 +0.200 1.800 09 04 D.C. 12 12 00 24 18 +0.000 1.333 10 02 CLB. 10 10 00 20 18 +0.000 1.111 11 21 MTL. 01 01 00 02 02 +0.000 1.000 12 03 K.C. 11 13 -2 24 18 -0.111 1.333 13 05 DAL. 09 12 -3 21 18 -0.167 1.167 14 08 COL. 07 10 -3 17 18 -0.167 0.944 15 07 N.Y. 09 13 -4 22 18 -0.222 1.222 17 19 PTL. 01 02 -1 03 03 -0.333 1.000 16 20 VAN. 01 02 -1 03 03 -0.333 1.000 18 09 N.E. 09 18 -9 27 18 -0.500 1.500 19 16 TOR. 01 05 -4 06 07 -0.571 0.857 20 15 T.B. 05 09 -4 14 06 -0.670 2.333 21 13 CHV. 03 14 -11 17 09 -1.222 1.889 Legends: * Rank = Rankings by CD/SSn * AT# = All-Time Ranking by Absolute Points per SoccerDB: http://aragon.ws/soccerdb/league/table_sum.php?stageId=1547 * SSn = Number of Seasons in MLS * CF = Combs For * CA = Combs Against * CD = Combs Diff. = CF-CA * CT = Combs Total = CF+CA (High CT = "Jekyll & Hyde", enjoy winning and losing big equally!!) Bonus Notes 2013: * L.A. are the most "Comb-efficient" team to date, by CD/SSn. * Conversely, Chivas are the most inefficient teams, and the only team with CD in negative twin-digits. * Montreal, Houston & Philadelphia have all lost their "Un-Combed" status this season, ouch!! * L.A. and N.E. are currently the team with highest CT.
Not league-related, but L.A. have received a first-half Comb in CCL on Oct-24: http://www.mlssoccer.com/ccl/news/a...laxy-left-bitterly-disappointed-performance-v By the way, the stadium does look really empty:
As RSL have completed their schedule while the rest have just 1 game remaining, Chivas USA have successfully defended the honor of "Wooden Spoon by Blowout Combs Received" (i.e. Losses by 4 clear goals or more), with 3 Combs received so far, thus having an "Unassailable Lead" over their 6 other "Closest Challengers" at 1 Comb received each. This is certainly a unique achievement in itself, as they became the first team to repeat the feat in back-to-back seasons (2012-13)... One more Blowout Comb for Chivas in 2013 please!!
"Honor Roll" for Blowout Combs by Each Season - through 2012, to be updated again after the conclusion of 2013 regular season: Legends: Red: Top-to-Bottom Slide Blue: Bottom-to-Top Surge Brown: Successive Seasons in Top-2 Green: Successive Seasons in Bottom-2 2Last = 2nd from Bottom Season: Title, #2 -- 2Last, Spoon 1996: S.J., N.Y. -- DAL., N.E. 1997: L.A., S.J. -- N.Y., N.E. 1998: L.A., D.C. -- N.Y., N.E. 1999: DAL., L.A. -- COL., MIA. 2000: CHI., L.A. -- DAL., D.C. 2001: MIA., L.A. -- K.C., T.B. 2002: S.J., CLB. -- COL., K.C. 2003: N.E., K.C. -- COL., DAL. 2004: K.C., N.E. -- COL., N.Y. 2005: D.C., K.C. -- CLB., RSL. 2006: D.C., DAL. -- RSL., CLB. 2007: HOU., D.C. -- RSL., DAL. 2008: CHI., COL. -- CHV., N.Y. 2009: RSL., COL. -- K.C., CHV. 2010: L.A., RSL. -- D.C., N.E. 2011: N.Y., L.A. -- TOR., VAN. 2012: S.J., SEA. -- POR., CHV. 2013: L.A., N.E. -- D.C., CHV. ** Season in-progress Quick Notes: 1. Most "Comb Titles": 4 by L.A. ('97, 98, 10, 13). 2. Most "Comb Spoons": 4 by N.E. ('96, 97, 98, 10). 3. L.A. ('97-98) & D.C. ('05-06) were the only teams that have successfully defended their "Comb Titles". 4. L.A. were in the Top-2 for 5-straight seasons between 97-01, the longest record. 5. N.E. ('96-98) & Chivas ('12-13) were the only teams that have successfully defended their "Comb Spoons". 6. N.E. ('96-98), Colorado ('02-04) & RSL ('05-07) are the record holders for the longest stay in the Bottom-2, at 3-straight seasons each. 7. @JasonMa should be pleased to know that Colorado have featured in the Top-2 between '08-09, despite never been among the Top-2 of Actual SS Standings.
Was that their home stadium? Quite a few of these games aren't held at the normal home stadium because they don't meet CONCACAF minimum requirements.
While Chivas have sealed the 2013 "Comb Spoon" with 1 game to spare, their chief rivals, L.A. Galaxy, are on the verge of clinching the "Comb Shield", unless: - N.E. are able to dish out another Blowout Comb in their last game (vs CLB.), or: - L.A. shoot themselves in the foot by getting combed in the season finale (vs SEA.). @Hachiko will be pleased with another award for L.A., which is going to be their 4th in this category,