I figured its now time to pull this out of the Pablo thread and make a generic thread for is: Season-by-season; Asterisks indicate years we missed the playoffs: 1. 2016 - Mastroeni - 1.7059 2. 1999 - Mooch - 1.59375 3. 2010 - Smith - 1.5333 4. 2002 - Hankinson - 1.5 4. 2013 - Pareja - 1.5 6. 2011 - Smith - 1.4412 7. 1998 - Mooch - 1.4375 8. 2005 - Clavijo - 1.40625 9. 2004 - Hankinson - 1.367 10. 2009 - Smith - 1.3333* 11. 1997 - Mooch - 1.28125 11. 2006 - Clavijo - 1.28125 13. 2003 - Hankinson - 1.267 13. 2008 - Clavijo/Smith - 1.267* 15. 2000 - Mooch - 1.1875 16. 2007 - Clavijo - 1.167* 17. 2012 - Pareja - 1.08823* 17. 2015 - Mastroeni - 1.08823* 19. 1996 - Houghton/Wegerle - 1.03125* 20. 2017 - Mastroeni/Cooke - 0.971* 21. 2014 - Mastroeni - 0.941* 22. 2001 - Hankinson - 0.923* 23. 2018 - Hudson - 0.667 All-Time Overall: 1. Smith - 104 Games - 1.43 2. Mooch - 128 Games - 1.41 3. Hankinson - 114 Games - 1.29 3. Pareja - 68 Games - 1.29 5. Mastroeni - 124 Games - 1.20 6. Clavijo - 114 Games - 1.18 7. Houghton - 31 Games - 1.06 8. Cooke - 12 Games - 0.92 9. Hudson - 12 Games - 0.67 10. Wegerle - 1 Game - 0.00 Playoff series records: 1. Smith 4-1 - .800 - Won MLS Cup 2. Clavijo - 2-2 - .500 3. Mastroeni - 1-1 - .500 4. Mooch 2-4 - .333 - MLS Cup appearance 5. Hankinson - 1-3 - .250 6. Pareja - 0-1 - .000 7. Houghton - Never qualified - N/A 7. Wegerle - Never qualified - N/A 7. Cooke - Never qualified - N/A 7. Hudson - Never qualified - N/A
Has anyone told Hudson that being behind Houghton and Cooke isn't a good thing? It's pathetic to look back at the Hankinson era as "the good old days."
1.09 pts/game the rest of the way to avoid the worst season in club history. That’s better than Pablo did in any non-2016 season.
Sad that we have gone from "How many average pts to make the playoffs" to "how many average pts to avoid being the worst Rapids team ever". Hard to imagine people keeping jobs with that bar, there has to be some way out of contracts. (man, I really wish I had one of those contracts. Fail miserably and get paid for a multi-year vacation!)
Pariah's 2012 season was a comparative carnival of fun festival. Back then, I thought that was a low. My how we've been spoon fed garbage.
You'd think that the Front Office would at least consider some kind of clause about terrible performance, wouldn't you? Especially when they're on the hook to Pablo for another year? I've been thinking a lot about whether KSE cares enough to do anything about Smith and Hudson. On the one hand, as many have pointed out, most MLS owners really aren't trying, or even expecting, to make a profit off of MLS clubs. It's much more about asset appreciation than it is about quarterly profits. But damn, mustn't how bad the Rapids are eventually make you wonder about the value of the asset? Mustn't the valuation of, say, Sporting Kansas City be much, much higher than it was back before it had an ownership group who gave a damn? I don't understand 21st-century capitalism. ESPECIALLY not sports-related!
Season-by-season; Asterisks indicate years we missed the playoffs: 1. 2016 - Mastroeni - 1.7059 2. 1999 - Mooch - 1.59375 3. 2010 - Smith - 1.5333 4. 2002 - Hankinson - 1.5 4. 2013 - Pareja - 1.5 6. 2011 - Smith - 1.4412 7. 1998 - Mooch - 1.4375 8. 2005 - Clavijo - 1.40625 9. 2004 - Hankinson - 1.367 10. 2009 - Smith - 1.3333* 11. 1997 - Mooch - 1.28125 11. 2006 - Clavijo - 1.28125 13. 2003 - Hankinson - 1.267 13. 2008 - Clavijo/Smith - 1.267* 15. 2000 - Mooch - 1.1875 16. 2007 - Clavijo - 1.167* 17. 2012 - Pareja - 1.08823* 17. 2015 - Mastroeni - 1.08823* 19. 1996 - Houghton/Wegerle - 1.03125* 20. 2017 - Mastroeni/Cooke - 0.971* 21. 2014 - Mastroeni - 0.941* 22. 2001 - Hankinson - 0.923* 23. 2018 - Hudson - 0.64 All-Time Overall: 1. Smith - 104 Games - 1.43 2. Mooch - 128 Games - 1.41 3. Hankinson - 114 Games - 1.29 3. Pareja - 68 Games - 1.29 5. Mastroeni - 124 Games - 1.20 6. Clavijo - 114 Games - 1.18 7. Houghton - 31 Games - 1.06 8. Cooke - 12 Games - 0.92 9. Hudson - 14 Games - 0.64 10. Wegerle - 1 Game - 0.00 Playoff series records: 1. Smith 4-1 - .800 - Won MLS Cup 2. Clavijo - 2-2 - .500 3. Mastroeni - 1-1 - .500 4. Mooch 2-4 - .333 - MLS Cup appearance 5. Hankinson - 1-3 - .250 6. Pareja - 0-1 - .000 7. Houghton - Never qualified - N/A 7. Wegerle - Never qualified - N/A 7. Cooke - Never qualified - N/A 7. Hudson - Never qualified - N/A
Season-by-season; Asterisks indicate years we missed the playoffs: 1. 2016 - Mastroeni - 1.7059 2. 1999 - Mooch - 1.59375 3. 2010 - Smith - 1.5333 4. 2002 - Hankinson - 1.5 4. 2013 - Pareja - 1.5 6. 2011 - Smith - 1.4412 7. 1998 - Mooch - 1.4375 8. 2005 - Clavijo - 1.40625 9. 2004 - Hankinson - 1.367 10. 2009 - Smith - 1.3333* 11. 1997 - Mooch - 1.28125 11. 2006 - Clavijo - 1.28125 13. 2003 - Hankinson - 1.267 13. 2008 - Clavijo/Smith - 1.267* 15. 2000 - Mooch - 1.1875 16. 2007 - Clavijo - 1.167* 17. 2012 - Pareja - 1.08823* 17. 2015 - Mastroeni - 1.08823* 19. 1996 - Houghton/Wegerle - 1.03125* 20. 2017 - Mastroeni/Cooke - 0.971* 21. 2014 - Mastroeni - 0.941* 22. 2018 - Hudson - 0.9375 23. 2001 - Hankinson - 0.923* All-Time Overall: 1. Smith - 104 Games - 1.43 2. Mooch - 128 Games - 1.41 3. Hankinson - 114 Games - 1.29 3. Pareja - 68 Games - 1.29 5. Mastroeni - 124 Games - 1.20 6. Clavijo - 114 Games - 1.18 7. Houghton - 31 Games - 1.06 8. Hudson - 16 Games - 0.94 9. Cooke - 12 Games - 0.92 10. Wegerle - 1 Game - 0.00 Playoff series records: 1. Smith 4-1 - .800 - Won MLS Cup 2. Clavijo - 2-2 - .500 3. Mastroeni - 1-1 - .500 4. Mooch 2-4 - .333 - MLS Cup appearance 5. Hankinson - 1-3 - .250 6. Pareja - 0-1 - .000 7. Houghton - Never qualified - N/A 7. Wegerle - Never qualified - N/A 7. Cooke - Never qualified - N/A 7. Hudson - Never qualified - N/A We're now doing better this year than we did after firing Pablo last year.
At the midway point of the season: Season-by-season; Asterisks indicate years we missed the playoffs: 1. 2016 - Mastroeni - 1.706 2. 1999 - Mooch - 1.594 3. 2010 - Smith - 1.533 4. 2002 - Hankinson - 1.5 4. 2013 - Pareja - 1.5 6. 2011 - Smith - 1.441 7. 1998 - Mooch - 1.438 8. 2005 - Clavijo - 1.406 9. 2004 - Hankinson - 1.367 10. 2009 - Smith - 1.3333* 11. 1997 - Mooch - 1.28125 11. 2006 - Clavijo - 1.28125 13. 2003 - Hankinson - 1.267 13. 2008 - Clavijo/Smith - 1.267* 15. 2000 - Mooch - 1.188 16. 2007 - Clavijo - 1.167* 17. 2012 - Pareja - 1.08823* 17. 2015 - Mastroeni - 1.08823* 19. 1996 - Houghton/Wegerle - 1.031* 20. 2017 - Mastroeni/Cooke - 0.971* 21. 2014 - Mastroeni - 0.941* 22. 2001 - Hankinson - 0.923* 23. 2018 - Hudson - 0.882 All-Time Overall: 1. Smith - 104 Games - 1.43 2. Mooch - 128 Games - 1.41 3. Hankinson - 114 Games - 1.29 3. Pareja - 68 Games - 1.29 5. Mastroeni - 124 Games - 1.20 6. Clavijo - 114 Games - 1.18 7. Houghton - 31 Games - 1.06 8. Cooke - 12 Games - 0.92 9. Hudson - 16 Games - 0.88 10. Wegerle - 1 Game - 0.00 Playoff series records: 1. Smith 4-1 - .800 - Won MLS Cup 2. Clavijo - 2-2 - .500 3. Mastroeni - 1-1 - .500 4. Mooch 2-4 - .333 - MLS Cup appearance 5. Hankinson - 1-3 - .250 6. Pareja - 0-1 - .000 7. Houghton - Never qualified - N/A 7. Wegerle - Never qualified - N/A 7. Cooke - Never qualified - N/A 7. Hudson - Never qualified - N/A
Without pulling out SAS or something like that to do an actual analysis of the chances of averaging 1 pt/match for the rest of the season, I can confidently say the chances of that are: 0.000000000001, though I may be off by one zero either way.
I'm actually significantly more optimistic than that. I wouldn't be shocked for us to do that and avoid the worst season ever. Not much more than that though.
I am too, if only because regression to the mean seems to pull in both directions, at least in US sports leagues. (Thankfully we don't get those multi-level relegation tailspins that end up in administration and insolvency. Our sports failures have floors....more like big tire fires.)
I guess you have to be really really bad to finish 2nd to the likes of New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Tahiti.