What do you think the 2003 standings will look like when it comes time for the playoffs. By current roster I say: West: Los Angeles San Jose Colorado Dallas Kansas City East: New England Columbus Metrostars DC Chicago League: LA NE San Jose Columbus Colorado Metrostars Dallas Kansas City DC Chicago
Maybe we should close this thread and revisit after tomorrow, superdraft, plus probably some trades...haha, couldn't wait one more day for this post...
i agree with almost all, but i think league will be Colorado LA Kansas Dallas NE DC Columbus Chicago San Jose MetroScum Metros are gonna finish last because they are the metros
Re: Re: 2003 Regular Season Standings Predictions Chicago over San Jose? In my opinion there is no one in the draft that is so good that they will make a team get alot better (I could see some players making a time go up 1 spot in the standings, but no more than that). Their may be some trades that could make a difference though.
Re: Re: 2003 Regular Season Standings Predictions Yeah, you're really being unbiased by putting the 2002 last place team in 5th place for 2003.
East: 1.New England 47pts. 14-11-5 2.DC United 46pts. 14-13-3 3.Columbus 45pts. 13-11-6 4.NewYork 34pts. 9-14-7 5.Chicago 26pts. 8-20-2 West: 1. LA. 59pts. 18-7-5 2. Colorado 50pts. 15-10-5 3. San Jose 44pts. 11-8-11 4. Dallas 41pts. 12-16-2 5. KC 37pts. 11-15-4 Home and Away 1st Round New England vs. New York DC united vs. Columbus LA Vs. Dallas Colorado vs. San Jose Semis at higher seed New England v. DC LA v. SJ Finals at HDNTC New Endland vs. LA Galaxy
While we are at it lets throw in some attendance figures LA............ 23500 DC ........... 20400 NY............ 19700 Colorado.... 18850 NE............ 17720 Columbus... 16800 Chicago..... 12800 SJ............. 12100 Dallas........ 10800 KC............. 10700 Season Average............16337
Do you guys really expect there to be a logjam in the East like there was last year? I dunno. It's too tough to call, but I've got faith in Bradley's ability to remake the Metros and think Hudson really can spot talent (he just can't draft for it...) I think last year's two playoff losers could be much better this year. And seriously, look at Chicago's roster: it's not bad and the defense is solid. To me, the real question as to who the bottom spots will be is this: has KC done enough to get better? And Colorado-- I think they could either way. Ask me tomorrow after the draft and I'm not sure what I'd say differently: I don't have a clue about college soccer...
I think NE's attendance rate will be higher. I also think the West won't dominate as much as last year, but they'll still be the stronger division.
My final standings prediction East: 1. DC United 2. Who cares? 3. Who cases? 4. Who cares? 5. Metrostars West: 1. Who cares? 2. Who cares? 3. Who cares? 4. Who cares? 5. Who cares? League table 1. DC United 2. Who cares? 3. Who cases? 4. Who cares? 5. Who cares? 6. Who cares? 7. Who cases? 8. Who cares? 9. Who cares? 10. Metrostars
WEST LA Dallas Colorado San Jose Kansas City EAST New England Columbus New Jersey DC United Chicago I think this might be one of MLS' strongest total rosters for all ten teams, ever. We'll have to wait and see though. Colorado, New Jersey, and DC could all turn out to play lower than expectations (you could easily flip-flop Chicago and DC in those EAST standings.)
but we are all under agreement that LA will finish top of the league right!... West 1.Los Angeles 2.San Jose 3.Colorado 4.Dallas 5.Kansas City East 1.Columbus 2.New England 3.New York/New Jersy 4.Chicago 5.DC United MLS 1.LA 2.SJ 3.Columbus 4.Colorado 5.Dallas 6.New England 7.NY/NJ 8.Kansas City 9.DC 10.CHI
Whats with putting Colorado so high? riigghhtt... L.A. Dallas San Jose Colorado K.C. NY/NJ New England Columbus D.C. Shitcago L.A. NY/NJ (only because they are first in the East) Dallas San Jose New England Colorado Columbus D.C. K.C. Shitcago
KornNutz: I think that the 2003 LA squad might be the best MLS has ever fielded. At least their defense will be well nigh unstoppable. LA Defense: Hartmann Califf-----Lalas-----Bo-----Marshall Don't forget that this is coming from a SJ fan. I don't know why you guys rank SJ so high. It doesn't look at all like their going to have a very good year. They're probably going to lose Cannon (whether he ends up somewhere in the Eredevisie or not.) They might lose Barret. It looks like they're having a hard time structuring Ekelund's contract. Graziani's gone. DeRosario might be gone. Ouch.
I don't know how much Hype about LA's defence I believe...starting with Danny Califf; young and unpolished, he's certainly no nick garcia or carlos Bocanegra. Tyrone Marshall got lost a lot last year and was sporadic (and couldnt mark faster guys) Bo Hong is really old, and lalas, well hell, lalas was still biting on Preki's cutback move last year. He played with the guy for christ's sake (not to forget that preki is 39) he should know which way he's going to go.
Yeah and they had played decently last year maybe they would've had a chance of making it to a couple of cup finals. Wait.... Actually, I don't think our team is as good as some of the other teams (on paper), we just have a bunch of overachievers.
West: LA - Top to bottom solid roster, Hartman and Ruiz getting hurt are the only weaknesses Dallas - Kreis, youth and experience, GK is a problem KC - Conrad will solve aerial defense, Wolff will ease accuracy problem San Jose - massive speed everywhere but defense Colorado - Will Grimandi be the answer for all problems and El Pibe's replacement? East: Columbus - They will score often this year, Busch is class NY/NJ - who didn't they sign in the off season? Bradley will cure ills New England - It will be tougher in the East this season and one good month will not be enough D.C. - Too many holes Chicago - No Bradley, Wolff, Novak, etc. Ugh!
Remember this "old" Hong was the Bronze Ball winner at the WC.. He is in fantastic shape.. He'll do just fine.. The Galaxy are much stronger now and not just because of him. We'll let the rest of the league fight for the honor of losing at MLS Cup 2003..
wizardscharter: "San Jose - massive speed everywhere but defense" Besidses the forward position (Donovan, DeRosario) where else is the team particularly speedy? Midfield? I wouldn't exactly call Coralles, Mulrooney, Ekelund (who knows if he'll even be back), Lagos/Russel speed demons. Defense: We have two promising youngsters in Dunivant and Robinson, two grizzled but oft-injured and aging vets (Dayak and Agoos), and then there's the fill in the blank, just like our mid-field. Will Barret be back? Is Waibel a starter? We'll have to wait and see, but don't expect much from San Jose this year.
Um, about losing at MLSC 2K3? Not gonna happen: EAST: Revs Crew Metro Fire DC WEST: LA Colorado San Jose Dallas Kansas City MLS: LA Revs Colorado Crew San Jose Dallas Metro Fire PLAYOFFS: LA over Fire Revs over Metro Dallas over Colorado Quakes over Crew LA over Quakes Revs over Dallas MLS Cup 2003: Revs over LA, 2-1 Twellman scores, 23rd minute Ruiz scores, 54th minute Ralston scores, 89th minute LA dominates, but Revs succeed. Kind of like the opposite of MLSC 2002. Prof
I'm not going to bother trying to argue with the standings predictions becuase it's all guesswork. But that prediction isn't accurate for the Wizards. 1999 Average Attendence - 8,183 2000 Average Attendence - 9,112 2001 Average Attendence - 10,954 2002 Average Attendence - 12,255 We are going to break last year's season ticket number (I believe it was around 3,500) and possibly finish off around 5,000, although Hunt has been pushing really hard to break the all-time record of ~7,000 and that's the goal for this off-season. So I think the MLS minimum might finally be out of the 10k's and moving up to the 11k's which is great compared to a few years ago when it was in the 7k's.
as for attendence, im looking for big pushes for KC and SJ. I hope Lucid is right about season ticket sales. Dallas will have slight problems with attendence in Dragon Stadium. Anybody hear any promotional plans for SJ?