| MLS rantings... |
| Here's some work I did in 2003 when I had been in England for a while and gotten used to the "right" way of doing things. Most of this got fixed by MLS, even the fact that they now list home teams first (thought they still list standings in wins-loss-draws instead of wins-draws-losses)! Basically, this boils down to the fact that I was excited about the new season until I remembered that MLS still don't play football. For example, there is still some silly overtime at the end of tied games, so that one team still as the chance of robbing the other of a point earned after 90 minutes. Yeah, sure, it's okay if you are on the robbing side, but... So, what am I going to do about it? Well, I'll just list the results and standings here in the right way. And I'll try to keep the OT out of it. Oh, and that reminds me, I'll do it all in one table--no "conference" nonesense...(though I admit, it only makes sense with the scheduling/travelling issues) |
| Without overtime, the table would look like this: Revised Table (October 5) P W D L F A Pts Chicago 29 14 9 6 50 37 51 (1 OT Win, 2 points/1 GF deducted) San Jose 29 14 8 7 44 34 50 DC Utd 29 10 13 6 37 30 42 (5 OT losses, 5 points added, 5 GA deducted) Rev 29 9 12 8 48 44 39 (2 OT win, 1 OT loss, 3 point/2 GF/1 GA deducted) Colorado 29 10 8 11 36 41 38 (1 OT win, 2 points/1 GF deducted) KC 29 9 10 10 45 43 37 (2 OT win, 4 points/2 GF deducted) Metros 29 8 13 8 35 34 37 (3 OT wins, 1 OT loss, 5 points/3 GF/1GA deducted) Crew 29 8 12 9 37 37 36 (1 OT Win, 3 OT losses, 1 point added, 1GF/3 GA deducted) LA 29 7 11 11 32 33 32 (2 OT win, 1 Loss, 3 points/2 GF/1 GA deducted) Dallas 29 5 6 17 30 59 21 (1 OT loss, 1 point added, 1 GA deducted) So, you can see that the Metros slide down the table, and DC jumps up, but other than that the distribution is fairly even. So what, then, is the point of making them play an extra ten minutes. The Revs late equalizer on Saturday would have been a great story, except that Carlos Ruiz (of course) ruined it by scoring in OT and cancelling out 80 minutes work! But then, Wolyniec's goal was worth seeing... Actual Table (October 5) P W D L F A Pts Chicago 29 15 8 6 51 37 53 San Jose 29 14 8 7 44 31 50 Rev 29 11 9 9 50 45 42 Metros 29 11 9 9 36 35 42 KC 29 11 8 10 47 43 41 Colorado 29 11 7 11 37 41 40 DC 28 10 8 11 37 35 38 LA 29 9 8 12 34 34 35 Crew 28 9 8 12 38 42 35 Dallas 29 5 5 19 31 61 20 |
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| So far there have been 39 draws in MLS after overtime, and only 11 results: KC 3-2 DC, April 12 Fire 2-1 Metros, June 28 DC 2-3 Metros, July 5 Burn 1-2 Metros, July 19 Rapids 2-1 Crew, August 16 Galaxy 2-1 Revolution, August 23rd Metros 1-0 Columbus, September 20th Galaxy 1-0 D.C. United, September 20th New England 3-2 Columbus, September 28 New England 1-0 DC, October 12 KC 2-1 LA, October 12 |