The last game of the round doesn't matter because it's MLS on MLS action, so let's do this. The round of 16 (or 5th round for those sane of mind) update for 2019 of my ever popular* league ELO rankings. *not at all true Some basic info, for those who want it: 1. These rankings use all USOC games since 1996 to determine the relative strengths of the leagues. The names used below just represent the current names of leagues at that level. In reality the leagues have changed around a lot, and accounting for that is difficult. D2/D3 before 2011 are their own beast. What is now USLC (which was D3 in 2011 and is now D2) and NASL (which is now defunct and joined the Cup in 2012 at the D2 level) started fresh. NASL has now died, what was PDL is now USL2, there's a brand new USL1 this year. It's a mess, I've tried my best, and I'll never be happy with it. 2. There are bound to be mistakes back in the history, but the beauty of ELO rankings is that they are self-correcting over time, so the "actual strengths" probably aren't too far off from this right now, even with errors in older competitions. 3. The actual results used are as follows: a. Game finishes in regulation with a result: goals scored b. Game finishes after extra time with a result: goals scored c. Game goes to penalty kicks: goals scored before the penalty kicks. The game is "recorded" as a tie. 4. A home team has its rating raised by 100, and the change in ratings for each of the teams is calculated based on the result of the game, and the relative difference between the two ratings. This means that currently, we would expect an NASL team hosting an MLS team to be slightly in favor of the MLS team, but not significantly so. 5. The average change in score for any individual game is about 7. This means that one league goes up by 7, and the other down by 7. 6. There is no way to account for the fact that many MLS teams play 'B' or 'C' sides in the first few rounds they participate. I can only base it on the teams fielded. 7. Dead leagues: D2 (pre-2011) - 1642, D3 (pre-2011) - 1560, NASL - 1582. These are only important in that ELO rankings are 0-sum, and those numbers can account for why the average of leagues today isn't 1500. RoundMLSUSLCUSL1USL2NPSLUSASA/etc 2018 Final173615531500134512991283 2019 R1173615531499134512841299 2019 R2173615681500133312831295 2019 R3173615561494133313041294 2019 R4175315401494133313021294 2019 R5173015621494133313021294 Remember what I said last time about MLS having little to gain by winning? Yeah, that doesn't mean they have little to lose in these games, as evidenced by the fact that MLS dropped 23 ratings points, and USLC gained that much, by both USLC teams winning (one on the road, one home). Interestingly, though, the "points change" for the 1-0 win at home by St. Louis was less than the "points change" for all of the 1-goal away wins by MLS teams against MLS opposition, and all of those were less than the "points change" by the Timbers 4-0 win at home. The 2-1 road win by New Mexico takes the round for the largest swing by a single game, though. Well, barring a big road win by San Jose, or a massive home blowout by LAFC, that is.
2019 US Open Cup Round of 16 Home team first, times are ET All games are on ESPN+ Wednesday results: Tuesday, June 18 Columbus Crew SC (MLS) 2-3 Atlanta United FC (MLS) Houston Dynamo (MLS) 2-3 Minnesota United FC (MLS) Wednesday, June 19 DC United (MLS) 1-2 New York City FC (MLS) Orlando City SC (MLS) 2-1 (aet) New England Revolution (MLS) FC Dallas (MLS) 1-2 New Mexico United (USL-C) Saint Louis FC (USL-C) 1-0 FC Cincinnati (MLS) Portland Timbers (MLS) 4-0. LA Galaxy (MLS) Thursday, June 20 Los Angeles FC (MLS) v. San Jose Earthquakes (MLS) 10:30 pm Quarterfinals are July 9-10.
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STL 2-0 MLS (Chicago and Cincinnati) Cincinnati kind of had an excuse, they are after all an expansion team, but Chicago had ZERO excuses.
2019 US Open Cup Round of 16 Home team first, times are ET All games are on ESPN+ Thursday result: Tuesday, June 18 Columbus Crew SC (MLS) 2-3 Atlanta United FC (MLS) Houston Dynamo (MLS) 2-3 Minnesota United FC (MLS) Wednesday, June 19 DC United (MLS) 1-2 New York City FC (MLS) Orlando City SC (MLS) 2-1 (aet) New England Revolution (MLS) FC Dallas (MLS) 1-2 New Mexico United (USL-C) Saint Louis FC (USL-C) 1-0 FC Cincinnati (MLS) Portland Timbers (MLS) 4-0. LA Galaxy (MLS) Thursday, June 20 Los Angeles FC (MLS) 3-1 San Jose Earthquakes (MLS) Quarterfinals are July 9-10.
Round of 16 results analysis: Home teams went 4-4 on advancement. That's 49-27 for the tournament. Advancement by affiliation: USL-C 2-0 MLS 6-8 Note: Several MLS teams played each other. MLS went 0-2 against lower division opponents. Cumulative for the tournament so far: USL-C 32-22 MLS 20-15 USL-1 5-6 Local Qualifiers 6-8 USL-2 6-10 NSPL 6-14
2019 US Open Cup Quarterfinals Home team first, times are ET All games are on ESPN+ Wednesday, July 10 Orlando City SC (MLS) v. New York City FC (MLS) 7:30 pm Atlanta United FC (MLS) v. Saint Louis FC (USL-C) 7:30 pm Minnesota United FC (MLS) v. New Mexico United (USL-C) 8:00 pm Los Angeles FC (MLS) vs. Portland Timbers (MLS) 10:30 pm Semifinals are August 7.
Tickets were $10 more expensive than last year. After the switch from SeatGeek to TicketBastard everything is nickel and dimes to death. Apparently it was forced on them by the league. James
Wait, the league forced teams to move from SeatGeek to TicketMaster all while SeatGeek is one of the teams stadium sponsor?
Maybe. It may be that Ticketmaster threatened to withhold events if the teams didn’t use them for SSS.
Seems weird. This article says six teams use seat geek, the leagues official partner. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanag...-with-we-fan-marketing-campaign/#2188c65b49b5 Thx, Jay!
Yeah it does. Maybe it is just LAFC getting bent over by ticketmaster. Everyone hates it. So much less user friendly than SeatGeek was. The next USOC game is full stadium non-GA. Everyone gets their regular seats. James