Just on that, the magic number for a full "appearance bonus" in English football tends to be 70 minutes. So when you see a player get pissed off about being substituted in the 68th minute, it may not just be his passion for the game that's making him want to stay in the pitch.
In a way, that explains the entire fight between the USWNT and US Soccer, and how the USMNT got dragged into it. For those players, including the MLS players, national team play is a bonus, not their main income, so they were willing to do the risky pay for play contract, while for the women, it was their living, so they went for stability. The bonuses becoming superfluous does tend to have an effect on incentives.
Decision Day (October 19) MLS attendance. Montreal (vs. New York City) 19,619 DC United (vs. Charlotte) 19,365 Philadelphia (vs. Cincinnati) 19,016 Orlando (vs. Atlanta) 25,046 Miami (vs. New England) 21,429 New York Red Bulls (vs. Columbus) 24,515 Chicago (vs. Nashville) 23,942 Houston (vs. Los Angeles Galaxy) 20,800 Los Angeles FC (vs. San Jose) 22,137 Minnesota (vs. St. Louis) 19,881 Austin (vs. Colorado) 20,738 Dallas (vs. Kansas City) 19,096 Real Salt Lake (vs. Vancouver) 20,359 Seattle (vs. Portland) 36,341 TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 312,284 AVERAGE: 22,306
Seattle vs Portland getting better than the Seattle average is good, but its below the Sounders' best average, and I feel like it'd be over 50k just a few years ago. Anyway, so did we set the attendance record?
I always found it funny that so many more people show up to the regular season closer than the first round of the playoffs (yes, I do understand the multitude of reasons this happens)
Great numbers for decision day considering it was a busy weekend in the sports world. It wasn't that long ago that college football, MLB playoffs and NHL games going on would be a reason for lower attendance. It looks like most teams have core fans who show up and MLS has found its place in one of the most crowded spots markets in the world. . Next year decision day will be different with every team playing now that they have 30 teams. If they stay with two conferences, you can't have every team play another team in your conference. So it's it just one game that becomes out of conference next year? Makes you wonder if realignment might happen with three ten team conferences, or play every game East vs West? Should be interesting because these seem like really good numbers for the last day of the season.
The last time we had odd numbers in both conferences the last place team in the East was paired with the last place team from the West based on the prior year standings. That was in 2017 with 22 teams in the league. Houston hosted Chicago. Sunday, October 22 DC United v. NY Red Bulls 4:00 pm NY City v. Columbus 4:00 pm Atlanta v. Toronto 4:00 pm Montreal v. New England 4:00 pm Philadelphia v. Orlando 4:00 pm Houston v. Chicago 4:00 pm Dallas v. LA Galaxy 4:00 pm Seattle v. Colorado 4:00 pm Portland v. Vancouver 4:00 pm Salt Lake v. Kansas City 4:00 pm San Jose v. Minnesota 4:00 pm 2020 had 26 teams but they divided the conferences 14/12.
1848737973287690412 is not a valid tweet id So, it is another record. We're going to need some bigger stadiums to keep beating this.
Not sure how accurate these numbers are or how accurate the percent of capacity are: 1848420442983567790 is not a valid tweet id
I just drove by that place. If they ever have summer day games its going to be brutal. Otherwise its a great stadium.
So 3.3%* of next year’s matches will, with all sellouts, be 11,700 above the league average. That would boost attendance by 386 per match. That’s about half of what is needed to get to 24K. *Im not good enough at math to know if it should be 1/29 or 1/30 so I went with the lower number. theyve been steadily improving, kind of under the radar. Wonder what’ll happen next year. The Revs are proof positive that 1.0 teams can become attendance leaders. Next up, the Fire. The Sounders are beginning to worry me, to the extent I worry about attendance. I mean, it ain’t like 15 years ago when we worried the league might fail. Still, it’s fun to see Our League catching and passing other leagues. Something completely unpredictable would have to happen for MLS to catch Germany or England, but in 10 years, it could be #3 in the world for average attendance. Not likely at all, but that should be the stretch goal.
The median team drew 21,473. Where does that rank us? Behind Germany and England l’m sure. Probably ahead of Mexico, definitely ahead of Spain and France. Italy? Anyway, the median MLS team is somewhere between #3 and #5 in the world, which just shows how solid MLS is. That’s why this league gets studied. The depth of strength is almost unparalleled. for myself, I’ve been a bit surprised that Cincy and Nashville haven’t followed Orlando’s trajectory. Their front offices are doing a good job.
1848796482784399361 is not a valid tweet id So much for out of sight out of mind despite lalas and his proclamations.
If it weren’t for the WNBA having an almost literally unbelievable year, the last two years of MLS would be the biggest sports business story in the US. Well, the pros anyway, college sports is bonkers.
CNBC did run a story on MLS business success yesterday. Still, the absolutely overwhelming narrative on Twitter, led by the likes of Lalas, is that MLS has completely disappeared and nobody knows it exists any more.
I think you mean the absolutely overwhelming narrative that the algorithm has generated for you specifically.
That's cuz Lalas is gonna Lalas. 100% This will be a season long remembered. Sheet, and us in Houston!