2025 Messi League Soccer (née Other Teams’) News Thread — Now With 100% More San Diego!

The idea is that there will be more eyeballs available. There might be 4 games a night, but theyll draw 2 million each. While a single NFL Game draws 16 mil. MLS could just have its november playoff games like on a tuesday competing only with Maction.

 

Keep in mind the NBA's new playoff schedule has a national game almost every night between NBC, ABC/ESPN, Peacock and Amazon.

https://www.nba.com/news/2025-26-nba-regular-season-schedule

There's also the NHL...

 

Yeah, but no OSU football which is all that matters.

 

Charlotte has lost.

 

Going way back, to the indoor soccer days of the 1980's - early 1990's, the regular season ran from approx Oct/Nov - April.

Many things have changed obviously, but the thing was back then, how attendance tended to lag before the turn of the New Year. In particular, December games before Christmas were difficult draws.

And weather, even though the games were played in arenas, had a big factor on attendance. If it were snowing, or ice on the roads, etc, attendance took a hit.

What I am getting at, is with the proposed (rumored) MLS schedule, I can see the matches from October - December (before the break) lagging.

End of July and August, you have the excitement of a new season, good weather, and prior to football season kicking off. So should be fine. Perhaps some of that carries over to September.

But come October, more into football season, weather not the same, plus there is going to be a six week winter break coming up in the middle of the season. Personally, I think matches during that period will be difficult to sell out (harder to sell to casual fans and group sales). But, that is just my opinion.

And then the playoffs in May, for those clubs that get to host a match or two, great. Those that don't make the playoffs, no home matches in May or June. (Instead, sell, sell, sell those Oct - early Dec home matches!!)

And TV ratings, perhaps they will be better. And of course, more higher level international players will flock to MLS with the change in the schedule.

 

If people think that somehow the month of May would be owned by MLS, when there is MLB along with both the NBA and NHL playoffs? That's some severe goddamned copium. Don't forget, it will also be crunch time in EVERY OTHER FOOTBALL LEAGUE IN THE WORLD, so people will be watching their teams there feverishly, too. Just wow. MLS is blind, dumb, and deaf on this one. If I get a chance to tell them so, I will.

 

Son and Bounga have combined for 17 goals in 6 games

 

Maybe a asst at Indiana or Akron otherwise retirement sounds likely

 

We were lucky to only give up 2 on the weekend

 

Doubt we host the play in game st this rate. Red bulls being eliminated helps our chances winning the final game, maybe

 

The 1996 Eastern Conference has four remaining teams. There's 15 teams in the 2025 Eastern Conference. Nine teams total make the playoffs.

15 teams competing for nine spots and four of those spots being occupied by particular teams seems like a bad bet. These things were a LOT easier to predict before Leagues Cup, CONCACAF, etc etc.

At the start of next season, predict five random teams from the west to make the playoffs. I'd take the house winning.

 

I'll wager $1000 total on 10 bets of 4 selected teams, no set of 4 may be a duplicate of another but may contain up to 3 of the same team for the 2026 playoffs before the start of the first game of the season. I'll add a zero if you are willing to set up an escrow account.