BALTIMORE, MONTERREY, CHIHUAHUA, EMPIRE, ALL OF THESE FLOORS ARE 50 TO 70 feet shorter than other teams already.
You're on crack. 50 feet shorter than 200 feet is 150 feet or 75% as large. 70 feet shorter is 130 feet or 65% as large. That's noticeable in a big way. Baltimore's shorter, no question. Monterrey appears larger than it was back in the original La Raza days, but does appear shorter. (Though not 35% shorter.) Chihuahua is shorter, but not 35% shorter. And Empire, quite frankly, no, is not 50-70 feet shorter.
For comparison, the Crunch at the Convo Center (NCAA hoops arena - albeit with some telescoping seats for basketball but not enough for a full hockey rink) was 180x75, IIRC.
I believe that Utica's field is technically 5 feet shorter as well. They could not put goals into the boards on one end because there is a concrete wall there so they put a false board 5 feet inside the wall.
Yes, I was in Utica last February, and I snapped this photo. It is blurry, but if you look closely, you can see the boards on the end in front of the 'normal' boards, and the goal in between.
No, that was the Iowa Raptors floor at the Alliant Energy Powerhouse (old Five Seasons Center) in Cedar Rapids, IA. I was working a penalty box for one of the Raptors games last winter, and to say the carpet was, um, less than secure around the boards would be something of an understatement.
As my screen name belies. I do officiate. I don’t claim to be an indoor officiating expert, but I do help with fourths, ARs, and penalty box for my local MASL2 team. I’ve watched a few of the early games with three officials. So far, I haven’t seen any major instances of officials being involved with play that I didn't see with two referees. The normal times referees have to be smart to avoid play are when the ball is in the corner near the lead official. Just like in a three-man basketball officiating crew, I think the additional set of eyes looking through the area around the top of the arc is a positive for this system. With two onfield referees, that area is kind of "no-man's land" in terms of calls. That "middle referee" allows the trail referee to watch more of the play after the ball is gone. This Friday, I'm going to the Iowa Demon Hawks (MASL2) game in Des Moines against the Iowa (Cedar Rapids) Raptors in Des Moines. They are playing on a full 200 x 85 hockey rink field. MASL2 is using three referees for that game. Two of the three work MASL"1" games. I'm interested to see how the mechanics of the system work in person, particularly how the officials rotate through the three (trail, middle, and lead) positions.
I might make that trek from CR. And yes, our arena here was infamous for a bit of sliding turf on the edge. Originally came here to ask what ball MASL is using this year. It doesn’t appear to be Flite anymore?
To me, the NPSL Kendis ball looked like a cheap knock off of the NASL ball. I think an indoor league needs to bring back the orange MISL ball. That was iconic!
As someone who watched MISL replays on ESPN coming home from grade school, the orange ball absolutely should be part of the indoor game by default. It’s right up there with the Midnight Express theme for the Comets (which they thankfully still do for pregame intros and power plays) as a permanent throwback to the old MISL days.
An email from the Blast. They don't normally send this sort of stuff. Doesn't really say much, though
Co-signed. I own two of the red ones from MISL II, but the orange is just better. I wonder if whichever manufacturers any given league partners up with have no appetite to create a color at a league's request or if this league is not interested in harkening back ot that. To me, it seems simple.
Whatever options they could go with, the current ball is the cheapest looking ball any league has ever had.
The Wave was 13-0 against non-playoff teams (6-0 v St. Louis, 4-0 v Dallas, 2-0 v Harrisburg, 1-0 v Baltimore). They were 2-9 against the rest of the league (both wins against Utica City). This will be a quick and painless series for the Wave, and then we can begin to reconstruct the roster that has gotten slow, has no real firepower and has no shut-down defender.
Yeah, I might have gotten that wrong. Doesn't mean the Wave aren't old and slow, but Oliviero carried out a hell of a game plan, especially in Mexico missing Ferdinand, Bennett, Leiti, Sanchez and Oliviera. Leiti and Oliviera won't play any more this year, but with two weeks in between games, hopefully Ian, Max and Alex can get fit to play the next round.
Surely the Wave upsetting the Flash has to rank among the biggest upsets in indoor soccer history right? The Flash were 25-0 , including game 1 of the series. / cant think of too many other tines were a team with a record like that lost in the first round the playoffs .