Needing a win for playoff position, facing a Wooden Spoon contender, San Jose gets combed instead. Brutal. They're now the Comb Leaders.
If SJE gets Combed one more time, they will set a new record for the most combs received in a season (currently at 4, held by 2012 Chivas USA).
Wait, i was wrong, Chivas USA was actually combed SIX times in 2012: http://www.aragon.ws/soccerdb/team/...&teamLeagueId=21&year=2012&matches=0&result=3 2012-04-29 MLS Colorado Rapids (A) 0 - 4 L 2012-08-13 MLS Los Angeles Galaxy (H) 0 - 4 L 2012-08-26 MLS Seattle Sounders FC (H) 2 - 6 L 2012-09-03 MLS San Jose Earthquakes (A) 0 - 4 L 2012-09-30 MLS Real Salt Lake (H) 0 - 4 L 2012-10-04 MLS Vancouver Whitecaps FC (A) 0 - 4 L
No new comb over the weekend following Orlando 6-1 NE in the mid-week. How many combs are we at for this season so far?
Used to maintain this list up to mid-2013... It's certainly due for an update at the end of 2017. With 26 Blowout Combs so far, 2017 should be a record-breaking season, both in terms of Comb Count % and Comb Percentage %.
I've always counted playoff games in my Combstats. 1996: 10/177 (5.65%) 1997: 10/173 (5.78%) 1998: 13/206 (6.31%) 1999: 11/208 (5.29%) 2000: 10/209 (4.78%) 2001: 14/176 (7.95%) 2002: 7/157 (4.46%) 2003: 4/161 (2.48%) 2004: 4/161 (2.48%) 2005: 4/203 (1.97%) 2006: 5/203 (2.46%) 2007: 8/206 (3.88%) 2008: 11/221 (4.98%) 2009: 8/236 (3.39%) 2010: 6/251 (2.39%) 2011: 8/319 (2.51%) 2012: 11/338 (3.25%) 2013: 15/338 (4.44%) 2014: 13/338 (3.85%) 2015: 14/357 (3.92%) 2016: 11/357 (3.08%) 2017: 27/348 (7.76%)
COMB OF THE YEAR 1996: (tie) DC 6 - 1 DAL (7/7) SJ 6 - 1 NE (8/11) 1997: DC 5 - 0 COL (6/7) 1998: DAL 1 - 8 LA (6/4) 1999: KC 6 - 0 MET (6/20) 2000: CHI 6 - 0 NE (9/22) 2001: KC 0 - 7 CHI (7/4) 2002: MET 5 - 0 LA (6/15) 2003: CHI 4 - 0 COL (5/25) 2004: NE 6 - 1 COL (9/18) 2005: DC 0 - 4 CHI (10/30) 2006: NY 6 - 0 RSL (8/26) 2007: (tie) CHI 0 - 4 HOU (7/12) DAL 0 - 4 DC (9/1) 2008: (tie) DAL 1 - 5 LA (5/18) NY 1 - 5 CHI (5/25) 2009: (tie) RSL 6 - 0 NE (4/25) DAL 6 - 0 KC (8/1) 2010: RSL 5 - 0 NE (7/2) 2011: NY 5 - 0 TOR (7/6) 2012: (tie) SJ 5 - 0 RSL (7/14) DAL 5 - 0 POR (7/21) 2013: CHV 0 - 5 POR (10/26) 2014: LA 6 - 0 COL (9/5) 2015: SKC 0 - 5 SJ (8/19) 2016: NYC 0 - 7 NY (5/21)
Update: We're at 29/363 in 2017. That's a Combrate of 7.99% Atlanta and Toronto are leading the way with 4 blowout victories apiece. On the other side of the coin, both DC and San Jose have received 4 Combs each. Chris Penso, JC Rivero, and Ricardo Salazar are the most frequent referees to officiate a Combing. Each has been in the middle for 3 Combs this season.
Here’s a question: When was the last time a team was combed, then did the combing, or vice versa, in consecutive games? Because FCD just did that. They lost to Seattle 4-0 last week, then beat LA 5-1.
Code: 2017: 1) PORTLAND TIMBERS 5 - 1 MINNESOTA UNITED FC (3/3 - Chris Penso) 2) MINNESOTA UNITED FC 1 - 6 ATLANTA UNITED FC (3/12 - Ismail Elfath) 3) NEW YORK CITY FC 4 - 0 D.C. UNITED (3/12 - Alan Kelly) 4) ATLANTA UNITED FC 4 - 0 CHICAGO FIRE (3/18 - Jose Carlos Rivero) 5) HOUSTON DYNAMO 4 - 0 ORLANDO CITY SC (5/6 - Sorin Stoica) 6) D.C. UNITED 0 - 4 PHILADELPHIA UNION (5/13 - Chris Penso) 7) NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION 4 - 0 REAL SALT LAKE (5/13 - Hilario Grajeda) 8) TORONTO FC 5 - 0 COLUMBUS CREW SC (5/26 - Drew Fischer) 9) HOUSTON DYNAMO 5 - 1 REAL SALT LAKE (5/31 - Ricardo Salazar) 10) FC DALLAS 6 - 2 REAL SALT LAKE (6/3 - Nima Saghafi) 11) CHICAGO FIRE 4 - 0 ORLANDO CITY SC (6/24 - Jorge Gonzalez) 12) CHICAGO FIRE 4 - 0 VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC (7/1 - Ismail Elfath) 13) LOS ANGELES GALAXY 2 - 6 REAL SALT LAKE (7/4 - Kevin Stott) 14) RED BULL NEW YORK 5 - 1 SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES (7/19 - Fotis Bazakos) 15) FC DALLAS 0 - 4 VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC (7/29 - Baldomero Toledo) 16) MINNESOTA UNITED FC 4 - 0 D.C. UNITED (7/29 - Robert Sibiga) 17) RED BULL NEW YORK 4 - 0 MONTREAL IMPACT (7/29 - Ricardo Salazar) 18) TORONTO FC 4 - 0 NEW YORK CITY FC (7/30 - Chris Penso) 19) MINNESOTA UNITED FC 0 - 4 SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC (8/5 - Jose Carlos Rivero) 20) REAL SALT LAKE 4 - 0 SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES (8/23 - Silviu Petrescu) 21) NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION 4 - 0 ORLANDO CITY SC (9/2 - Robert Sibiga) 22) TORONTO FC 4 - 0 SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES (9/9 - Jose Carlos Rivero) 23) ATLANTA UNITED FC 7 - 0 NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION (9/13 - Baldomero Toledo) 24) LOS ANGELES GALAXY 0 - 4 TORONTO FC (9/16 - Kevin Stott) 25) ATLANTA UNITED FC 4 - 0 LOS ANGELES GALAXY (9/20 - Ricardo Salazar) 26) D.C. UNITED 4 - 0 SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES (9/23 - Marcos DeOliveira) 27) ORLANDO CITY SC 6 - 1 NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION (9/27 - Silviu Petrescu) 28) SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC 4 - 0 FC DALLAS (10/15 - Drew Fischer) 29) PORTLAND TIMBERS 4 - 0 D.C. UNITED (10/15 - Mark Geiger) 30) PHILADELPHIA UNION 6 - 1 ORLANDO CITY SC (10/22 - Joseph Dickerson) 31) FC DALLAS 5 - 1 LOS ANGELES GALAXY (10/22 - Jose Carlos Rivero) FREQ: 31/374 (8.29%) TEAM BLOWOUTS COMBS ATL 4 0 CHI 2 1 CLB 0 1 COL 0 0 DAL 2 2 DC 1 4 HOU 2 0 LA 0 4 MIN 1 3 MTL 0 1 NE 2 2 NY 2 0 NYC 1 1 ORL 1 4 PHI 2 0 POR 2 0 RSL 2 3 SEA 2 0 SJ 0 4 SKC 0 0 TOR 4 0 VAN 1 1 Code: FREQUENCY: 228/5369 (4.25%) TEAM BLOWOUTS COMBS +/- ATL 4 0 +4 CHI 14 8 +6 CHV 3 16 -13 CLB 12 12 0 COL 8 14 -6 DAL 13 21 -8 DC 17 19 -2 HOU 11 2 +9 LA 31 11 +20 MIA 4 4 0 MIN 1 3 -2 MTL 2 3 -1 NE 13 24 -11 NY (MET) 14 14 0 NYC 2 4 -2 ORL 2 7 -5 PHI 5 3 +2 POR 4 3 +1 RSL 10 12 -2 SEA 10 5 +5 SJ 20 9 +11 SKC (KC) 14 14 0 TB 4 10 -6 TOR 7 6 +1 VAN 3 4 -1 TOTAL 228 228
We need just ONE comb in the 17 playoffs games to set a new Combrate record. Otherwise, we're going to fall just short.
Most likely candidate to set the mark is San Jose? Earthquakes have been poor on the road this year, where their most severe beatings have occurred. It might not happen tonight in Vancouver, but if the Quakes win, Seattle looms. Second choice would be the Chicago Fire. Like San Jose, Chicago is terrible on the road and seems to play with, pardon the pun, little fire or spirit when away from Toyota Park. Also, the Dynamo have been in Houston for what...11 years now? In all that time, they have been combed only twice. That's pretty impressive. Meanwhile, New England and FC Dallas look good to get combed at least once every season. DC United too.