funny how the team with the higher seed ends up hosting the weekday games, while the lower team gets the weekend game. not really a reward financially considering the weekend crowds will likely be much higher than 6,360 or 8,000. makes you wonder what the galaxy would have drawn if that match was on a saturday.
Good point I was thinking the same thing. The only good midweek crowds these playoffs will be NE, and Columbus if they wind up gettin one.
would it have killed mls to start the playoffs 3 days later? give the teams a week to rest....give the front office a little more time to market....
I think they wanted to make siure that they had enough time to promote the actual MLS Cup final. Last year after both semis went three games they had little time in Columbus or nationwide to promote those two teams.
This weekend, the #8 should visit the #1 seed, #7 should visit #2, etc. Next weekend, highest remaining seed hosts lowest remaining seed, etc. The next weekend, you have a whole week to promote MLS Cup. That would be, by far, the best playoff system with 8 teams.
And if there wasn't a double header going on at the Colleseum on the same night. Cruz Azul v. Morelia Toluca v. Pachuca
Re: Re: Home field advantage? Ah...but only 7,000 showed up for the double header. Almost 14,000 at the RB.