On the field, all the time 2006

[scaryice]

Climbing the Ladder (http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006/04/mls-2006-on-field-all-time.html)

86 players left after two weeks.

[scaryice]

Climbing the Ladder (http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006/05/otfatt-2006-update-4.html)

Down to 28 players.

[numerista]

You mentioned that suspensions could knock a few players off of the list, so I pulled the number of cautions for the 21 remaining field players:

3 - Arnaud
2 - Beckerman, Gros, Mullan, Ihemelu, Dorman, O'Rourke
1 - Guerrero, Pause, Bornstein, Carroll, Zavagnin, Heaps, Twellman
0 - Kljestan, Palencia, Cooke, Erpen, J.Moreno, Victorine, Klein

Suspension comes after a player's fifth yellow, so several of these guys seem likely to miss a game at some point. Most obvious among them is Arnaud, followed by Beckerman and Mullan, who are both among the league leaders in fouls committed.

[scaryice]

25 left.

Guzan, Moreno, Palencia off the list.

[numerista]

Yellow Watch (field players only)

5 = suspension
4 -
3 - Arnaud, Beckerman, Gros, Heaps, Ihemelu
2 - Mullan, Dorman, O'Rourke, Zavagnin, Bornstein
1 - Erpen, Guerrero, Pause, Twellman
0 - Kljestan, Cooke, Victorine, Klein

[scaryice]

24 left.

Brian Carroll subbed off on Wednesday. Nobody off yesterday.

[numerista]

Yellow Watch (field players only)

5 = suspension
4 - Ihemelu
3 - Arnaud, Beckerman, Gros, Heaps, Bornstein
2 - Mullan, Dorman, O'Rourke, Zavagnin
1 - Erpen, Guerrero, Pause, Twellman
0 - Kljestan, Cooke, Victorine, Klein

We nearly have our first yellow victim ... although Ihemelu's rate of one card per 270 minutes isn't so bad. RSL's Atiba Harris has 6 yellows in 471 minutes, i.e. one every 77 mins.

Among the above players, the one guy who looks safest from suspension is Cooke. After 10 games he has committed only one foul.

[kebzach]

Yes, I'd think that Cooke would be a good one to bet on making it most of the way.

[numerista]

Yes, I'd think that Cooke would be a good one to bet on making it most of the way.

... or would've been, if he hadn't been subbed out of Colorado's most recent game. :D

Yellow Watch (field players only)

5 = suspension
4 - Ihemelu, Beckerman
3 - Mullan, Arnaud, Zavagnin, Gros, Heaps, Bornstein
2 - Dorman, O'Rourke
1 - Erpen, Guerrero, Pause, Twellman
0 - Victorine, Klein

[scaryice]

Climbing the Ladder (http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006/06/otfatt-2006-update-5.html)

Down to 18.

[kebzach]

Logan Pause is out for the Fire.

[Chowda]

Twellman has been subbed out at least twice this season.

[scaryice]

July 9 update (http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006/07/otfatt-2006-update-6.html)

2006 Candidates (11)

CHI-Ivan Guerrero, Zach Thornton
COL-Kyle Beckerman
DC-Facundo Erpen, Troy Perkins
HOU-Brian Mullan, Pat Onstad
KC-Kerry Zavagnin
LA-Ugo Ihemelu
NE-Jay Heaps, Matt Reis

[scaryice]

We're down to 7. Last year 5 players made it, and only 24 in ten years of MLS. You have to think that Guerrero and Beckerman won't last much longer. Meanwhile, Heaps is only a yellow away from suspension.

2006 Candidates (7)

CHI-Ivan Guerrero, Zach Thornton
COL-Kyle Beckerman
DC-Troy Perkins
HOU-Pat Onstad
NE-Jay Heaps, Matt Reis

I was thinking about baseball, and it would be interesting to see how many guys who play all 162 or so games were never taken out.

[kebzach]

I was thinking about baseball, and it would be interesting to see how many guys who play all 162 or so games were never taken out.

These days, there can't be too many of them.

[kebzach]

update?

[scaryice]

update?

3 players left (http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006/09/otfatt-2006-update-10.html)

[kebzach]

Nice.

[LeperKhan]

Perkins didn't play in the Saturday, 9/9 match for DC, so he is done.