League Fair Play Table Code: Rank Team GP Yellow Red Fouls CleanGP PtsGP Total Pts 1 D.C. United 23 38 1 312 4 11.2 258 2 Chicago Fire 22 37 1 324 3 12.5 275 3 Kansas City Wiz 24 41 3 299 4 11.8 283.5 4 FC Dallas 22 40 2 336 4 13.1 288 5 Colorado Rapids 22 45 3 285 4 13.3 292.5 6 Chivas USA 23 45 0 324 3 12.9 297 7 New England Rev 23 40 1 288 1 13 299 8 Houston Dynamo 23 38 4 361 4 13.6 312.5 9 NY/NJ 22 38 1 373 2 14.5 318.5 10 Columbus Crew 24 41 1 370 2 13.7 329 11 Real Salt Lake 23 47 3 315 3 14.4 330.5 12 LA Gals 23 42 0 387 2 14.4 331.5 Thx, Jay!
Note that Real SL is next to last. Probably because of that 'hospital' guy (what's his name...Atiba Harris?) who got red carded out of the Real Madrid game. If I'm right that in the team stats 'C' stands for cards and 'E' stands for ejections, then he leads the team...6 cards and 1 ejection.
One pundit called him the most reckless tackler in the league. Peter Nowak was right to consign him to the hospital (probably suggesting that he do community service as a candy-striper). As usual, Peter Nowak was on the cutting edge in analyzing the game on the field. The guy really throws himself around.
I had a thread on this very topic earlier this year: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=354224 Here's the table as it stood in mid-May: Code: League Fair Play Table [FONT=Courier New][U]rank team gp y r f clean gp pts gp total pts[/U] 1 DCU 7 9 0 89 1 9.4 65.5 2 KCW 7 10 1 87 1 11.2 78.5 3 CHI 6 10 0 90 0 14.2 85.0 4 COL 6 11 1 103 1 15.1 90.5 5 CHV 5 13 0 82 0 18.6 93.0 6 NYR 6 11 0 102 0 15.8 95.0 7 HOU 7 11 2 110 1 14.9 104.0 8 NER 6 16 0 89 0 18.1 108.5 9 RSL 7 15 1 108 1 15.6 109.0 10 CLB 7 13 1 114 0 17.0 119.0 11 LAG 8 14 0 139 0 15.7 125.5 12 FCD 8 20 2 140 0 21.3 170.0[/FONT][FONT=Courier New] [/FONT] So what''s changed? - Notice how the fouls rates of all teams had gone down since early in the season. It's like every team had to take a month or two to get used to each other. - relative to the other teams in the league Dallas has cut their foul rate. So has C-bus, Chivas and the Revs. OTOH, LA, RSL and NY still foul at a high rate. - DCU, KC, and Chicago continue to foul less often.
Tyrone Marshall put a wicked hit on a Crystal Palace player at the 1/2 friendly they played in Richmond last month. Hopefully he's still consigned to the bench. Thx, Jay!
My Mistake, Sorry [R] Oh, how the mighty have fallen since August 25. Code: Rank Team GP Yellow Red Fouls CleanGP PtsGP Total Pts 1 Kansas City Wiz 32 51 4 399 6 11 353.5 2 Chivas USA 32 56 3 437 6 12 382.5 3 Chicago Fire 32 53 2 457 5 12 385.5 4 FC Dallas 32 58 2 476 6 12.5 400 5 NE Revolution 32 58 1 422 2 13.2 423 6 LA Galaxy 32 57 0 532 4 13.6 434 7 Houston Dynamo 32 51 7 502 6 13.6 435 8 Real Salt Lake 32 59 5 422 4 13.7 437 9 Colorado Rapids 32 65 6 420 6 13.8 440 10 D.C. United 32 63 5 454 4 14.7 469 11 Columbus Crew 32 56 5 512 3 15.2 485 12 NY/NJ 32 63 4 540 2 16.6 532 Thx, Jay!
im sure kc's fan is really excited that his team was the nicest in the league...show them what they win....
No - Josh Gros and Erpen decided to have a challenge to see who could pick up more stupid red cards at the end of the season. Fouls per game only increased by .5.
We were averaging 13.5 fouls per game over the first 23. We averaged 15.7 over the last 9 to bring the average up to 14.1. Fuzzy math Thx, Jay!
Re: My Mistake, Sorry [R] This just completely confirms my belief that Chitcago gets away with murder.
So, you are saying that we average only 2.2 more fouls per game but the things left to the discretion of the referee (i.e. when to toss cards) dramatically increased? I guess that just shows how unbiased MLS referees are... DC United (first 23 games) 38 Yellow Cards 1 Red DC United (last 9 games) 25 Yellow cards 4 Reds Yea, that fits well into my post-war communist theory about referees being told to "enforce parity"?
Re: My Mistake, Sorry [R] Seeing that CJ Brown only got 3 yellows for the entire season was already proof positive for me to know that. One of the biggest thugs in the league ........... 3 yellow cards. Gimme a break.
Re: My Mistake, Sorry [R] ...and confirms my belief that the refs are total short bus material. NE with one red card! One! With Heaps, Larentowicz, Franchino, Lochhead, Reis, Avery John, Khano Smith, "Elbows" Twellman, Dempsey, Joseph, et al. I mean, that's the most hacktastic team in MLS if not the world. They should get a red card just for having Brad Felcher as their announcer.
And how when DC starts losing and playing poorly, their frustration really starts to show. Just sayin' One Coin-Two Sides.
I see your coin and say mine is a mobius strip... DC was playing poorly before the yellow card fest came about...
I'm REALLY hoping you deliberately ignored my (very bad) pun... In fact, I'll be positive. I'm sure you did.