That just sounds wrong. And not to be too pedantic, but I think it's spelled "vercockt". like "verdamnt". Whenever I heard "schneller" or "verdamnt", I think of this movie.
Since it's Yiddish, it's actually spelled with Hebrew letters. Fercockt is the most common transliteration.
So would this also be the place to open discussion of the race for the Anthony Precourt Memorial Wooden Spoon? Seems like very similar metrics reversed in a sort of toast-stuck-to-a-kitteh kind of way could be applied to the bottom of the table as well as the top. For example, it appears to someone who cant count to 21 without dropping his pants that LAFC has been mathematically eliminated from contention for the APMWS. Ironically, it would appear that the team he and Don conspired for so long to destroy is in fact well within range although FCC would seem to be the favorite.
I think it's reasonably safe to believe Cincinnati has the best chance to cop the Wooden Spoon this season. What will be fun to watch is which team will take 2nd worst in MLS...Columbus, Vancouver, Colorado. What should they get? Maybe a Rubber Spatula?
Anybody have available the record for best away ppg? I'm guessing that LAFC is going to break that record too. However, there have to have been some teams over the years with close-to-perfect home records. (I think RSL was one of them in the early 2010's.) Maybe they'll have the highest ppg?
The record is the 1998 Galaxy, with 37 points in 16 games, 2.31 ppg. That was under shootout rules, but that doesn't really matter as they didn't lose any points in away shootouts. The best LAFC can achieve this year is 36 points in 17 games, so they can't break the record by raw point total nor ppg. For the post-shootout, era, unless I'm missing someone, the record is shared by three teams at 1.88, 32 points in 17 games: 2011 Seattle, 2012 San Jose, and 2018 Atlanta.
Record for home ppg is 2.53* (14-2-1-43 points), NYRB 2018 LAFC is currently at 2.83 11-0-1-34 points) *-DC United was 14-2-0 in 1998, not sure how many of the wins were shutout wins and how many of the losses were shutout loses. They had 7 shutout wins and 3 shutout losses, just don't know if any were at home.
... The "Dull as Toast" Update ... Notes A little shifting around, but truthfully nothing really interesting happened table-wise this week.
Can't recall the threshold for becoming burnt toast. Both Despair numbers over 3? If so, the Rapids have again "achieved" that status.
Along with Cincinati and Vancouver. Speaking of the CD#, shouldn't that reflect the 7/12 percentile (since 7 teams get into the playoffs) and not 5/12 percentile?
They had 6 shootout wins and no shootout losses at home. Their schedule page doesn't say what games went to shootouts, so I used the MLS Fact & Record Book's head-to-head section with sections like D.C. vs. New York and added it. No, because percentile starts from the bottom. The seventh place club is better than the bottom 5/12s.
The calculation reflects the fact that 5 out of 12 teams don't make the playoffs. Hence you need to be at about the 41.67th percentile to sniff at a playoff spot, which is what the CD# is supposed to reflect.
If only there were a post detailing explanations like this in the thread. You should add one next year.