Fallacy after fallacy, ignorance is bliss. You know, Europe has professional basketball leagues, much older than MLS, but more people still watch the NBA don't they? See how that works?
Last season, six MLS teams missed the playoffs that had more than 7 wins. Even if you retroactively added the sixth playoff team to each conference, that's still four. Hell -- three teams missed in the East with wins in double-digits. But that's not the point, anyway. dodgers is another troll who thinks MLS is terrible, so specifics don't matter.
I really wish people would stop playing "EPL is better than MLS" like it's an unbeatable trump card. Really? No kidding, dumbass. If you hate it so much, go away.
By the same reasoning, as it's pretty obvious by October who will be in the hunt for a championship in any euro league, does that mean there's no reason to watch the games? I think we watch the games because we love the game. It's fun to watch. It's more fun to be at a game. When fans stop believing that, about any sport, in any league, it's over.
but it does if you're a fan of Leicester or Burnley. Though to be honest, the game might be more fun (less tense) if relegation wasn't on the line
Well then why the ******** would an idiot come here and talk about the Chicago/Philadelphia game if said idiot isn't a fan of either team?
Well they can have fun being bored bandwagoning whatever super club is in style this year. I'll be sitting enjoying another exciting week of MLS and USL.
Maybe tough since Keller left. But the point is, if you support the team, the games are worth watching. Which was, originally, just an answer to why someone would watch games in a league that offers X number of playoff spots. An actual fan watches the regular season, and then watches the playoffs.
More then half the teams make the playoffs in the NBA and NHL. 7 win teams make the NFL playoffs about once every 5 years. You must really like baseball. Since your post indicates that you think literally every other sport in the nation is Minor League.
No, apparently they don't. Most Europeans don't watch basketball at all, and those that do "remain loyal to local teams." You can find basketball on television in Germany, but it's far more common to find euro league games. My neighborhood has the occasional ad for a berlin alba game, but there is no access to NBA in my television package. In fact, my provider doesn't offer a channel with regular NBA games (I don't have Sky).
Basketball's pretty popular in Europe, especially in Greece and Spain, believe it or not. Here's a video of the Panathinaikos fans cheering at a game:
Well, they would be the "those that do" I was referring to, and they appear to be supporting their local team. but it's still niche level popular. and when you pass kids in the park who are playing (usually in Berlin on hoops along the sides of a fenced in footie platz, they still move like the game is a bit unnatural.
That's nice. I know I said European basketball leagues but I wasn't just referring to European people, I was just saying, people in general, globally, if you are a basketball fan, you find a way to watch the NBA. China, for instance:
I think I speak for everyone who watches soccer when I say that I watch the games because I find the sport entertaining. I don't dedicate hours of my life per week simply to find out who makes the playoffs. I can just google that.
Except that isn't true either. League 1 and League 2 plus a litany of other leagues play league games during international breaks. It's only the top divisions that don't play during international breaks. Now to be fair League 1 and League 2 also play 46 games (home and home versus the 23 teams in the league) so they can't really afford breaks.
Last Sunday there were Euro and World Cup qualifiers. Here are countries who played domestic club games that day: Argentina Australia Austria Brazil Canada (Toronto FC played in MLS) Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador England Finland Germany Greece Guatemala Iceland India Italy Japan Panama Paraguay Poland Portugal Russia Slovakia South Korea Spain Turkey Uruguay USA Venezuela Wales 33 countries are listed including countries who did not play any top level games and may not include all countries. In addition, Norway and Sweden did not have league games but had clubs play club friendlies.
Furthermore, of the countries on that list, every non-European country except Japan and Korea played top-level games on either Saturday or Sunday. So did Slovakia and Wales.
Ok... as much as I like seeing people getting schooled who don't know nearly as much as they think they do, this thread is supposed to be about the table -- not the schedule.