That's all money that was paid out during 2012, so I'm assuming that would already be included in the $2.2M payroll figure.
I'm wondering why those figures are so much different than these: Here is the ranked order of team payrolls according to the May 2012 figures released late last week: Team Total team payroll (guaranteed compensation) New York Red Bulls $12.96 million LA Galaxy $12.63 million Toronto FC $8.25 million Vancouver Whitecaps $4.37 million D.C. United $4.19 million Portland Timbers $4.16 million Seattle Sounders $3.98 million Philadelphia Union $3.62 million Real Salt Lake $3.52 million FC Dallas $3.45 million Colorado Rapids $3.43 million Columbus Crew $3.33 million New England Revolution $3.26 million Chicago Fire $3.23 million Chivas USA $3.23 million San Jose Earthquakes $3.21 million Sporting Kansas City $3.12 million Montreal Impact $3.03 million Houston Dynamo $3.00 million He pretty quietly had a much improved year. His 1v1 defending was outstanding - I'd say about as good as anyone in the league (Rusty Pierce-like!). He mostly avoided the hamstrings that have plagued him most of his pro career (credit to Downing?) and played even better when moved over to the left (forced him to be more focused?). I still feel that with small improvements, his runs forward could get a lot more productive, but he still has major problems covering on crosses to the back post. Wow, so all I have to do is restrain myself to prove you wrong? How easily that is forgotten ... We didn't waive Joseph and we didn't waive Boggs (or if we did, it was at his request) - so that money shouldn't be included. And, the positive view is that we stopped carrying players who didn't have a future here (still wondering about forgotten man, Nyassi, though).
I wasn't a math major, but I don't think 44/2=15. (That said, good figures here, with the caveats people have added since.)
It's not included in the 2.3M payroll. Can't be because $2.3M was our payroll at the end of the season (clarification: according to MLS PU numbers). Our cap hit was the payroll at the end of the season plus the $600k or so that we spent on players that were cut minus whatever allocation money we used to pay down salaries (somewhere in the 2.6 to 2.8 million range).
You may be right, but if the author is comparing points earned during the season to money spent, it would make more sense to use money spent during the season as opposed to salaries on the year-end roster. What about the money they added mid-season with Bengston, Imbongo and Toja?
What about it? It's included in the $2.3 million. Go on the MLSPU website. The numbers at the end of the year add up to just shy of $2.3 million. That's exactly why the whole metric is flawed. Other teams numbers are significantly higher because they didn't cut nearly as much salary in the summer. Toronto was the only other team in the same galaxy when it came to cutting salary, and their salary expenditure is huge because of their multiple expensive DPs on guaranteed contracts.
For a little more than 5% of the budget, that isn't a lot. And you say "we can do better" but who for that price?
But can you find a replacement space cadet with the worst first touch in MLS? Someone who can lose his mark that consistently? KA was even an "All Star" one year. We have traditions to uphold. Sorry, positives thread, forgot. Optimistic the Andrew Farrell selection with turn out better than Leandro de Oliveira.
I don't think Alston looses his mark very often. Everytime I've seen him "loose his mark" the defense has been left out to dry by the midfield. Often times one of the CMs didn't track their runner and Alston was put in a situation where he had two guys to cover. Our defensive woes were 50% midfield based last year.
You pro-rated the salaries of the players that left mid-season, but you didn't pro-rate the salaries of the players that joined mid-season. I agree they dumped more salary than anyone else, but to be $600K below the 2nd lowest team and still claim they were up against the salary cap is farcical.
Well if we had 2.3 million on the books at the end of the season, and we used $644k on players we cut, that's $2.94M. KC wasted $83K on cut players and had $2.89K on the books at the end of the season. So they used $2.97 million. So we were the lowest spending team in the eastern conference by about $30,000, not $600,000.
I actually think Alston's worst attribute is his passing out of the back. But I think he got a lot better playing at LB late last year.
It's the brainfarts that happen almost every game. Losing his mark, passing to the other team. It happens a lot.
Except, as I've already pointed out twice, it's not $600K, because you haven't subtracted the pro-rated salaries of the 3 players that signed mid-season. But whatever the amount, it's still lowest in the league.
I think Alston's worst attribute is defending balls in the air. I actually think his passing improved a lot last year.
Now you are just being contrarian. You think that Bengston, Imbongo and Toja got paid for a full season even though they signed midyear? NO! Their salaries were pro-rated to the number of games they were with the team. So, for 2012, they got paid less than the number in the MLSPA report.
They don't list prorated salaries in the MLSPA reports. Example: Edgaras Yankauskas: Signed July 1, 2009 As of Sept. 15, 2009: $240,000As of Aug. 12, 2010: $240,00 MLSPA numbers ≠ Cap hits
So KC used $2.97 million. Subtract the partial salaries from mid season acquisitions ($114K total) and you get $2.86M cap hit. New England by my initial calculations used $2.94M. Subtract $140K in partial salaries then add the $50K I forgot to add of Bengtsons cap hit (his cap his was $175K, $50K larger than his salary this year) and New England's estimated cap his was $2.85M.
Yeah, although I think this is a problem with the back 6 on the whole. I don't know if it is a tactical issue, or if it is just the sum of individual issues in marking, but they are all often caught running around like they don't know who to mark. I think Alston looked better this year, because he had better outlets to pass to. I think Alston is a solid player. He has some weaknesses in his game for sure, but he is good enough when he is not exposed by other players inabilities. You can easily see the difference between him and a player like Tierney, because Tierney still makes the same poor passes, no matter who he plays with.