its the playoffs in the MLS and no one here is talking about it
>scheduling the playoffs in the middle of NFL, college football, and MLB playoffsWhy would they do this? They should adapt the euro calender of playing from August to May, MLS playoffs would have a much better chance competing with NBA/NHL playoffs.
no shit? it's football sunday, fag
>>151644877idk desu
>>151644894fuck handegg
>>151644796>NY Red Bulls>have 2 points more than Salt Lake>Salt Lake gets the playoff spot
I watched the union play after the eagles game yesterdaythey almost blew it but won in a shootoutpretty cool but if it interferes with my NFL team it will never win
>>151644796Why would anyone except Americans talk about it? And you've got NFL and other stuff going on
>>151644796MLS season is too long and meaningless
>>151652694why?
I watched some Whitecaps game bcuz of Müllel, that Berhalter guy seems good
>>151644796>playoffsyou mean the DFB Pokal/FA Cup type of thing?Usually B tier compared to the league title race or international competitions desu.
>>151652846The better team didn't advance but the diversity hire
>>151652846I think it's to meet a geographical quota
>>151644796agreed today is a HUGE day for MLS
>>151652694NY Red Bulls got 10th place in the eastern conference table, Real Salt Lake got 9th place in the western conference table. You need to be atleast 9th or higher to make playoffs (imo it should only be top 2, this playoff bracket is way too big)
/mls/ was pretty good when we had it active on here. I'm sure it was just like ten autistic guys who also post on reddit, but whatever. With the apple paywall and without that it feels like the league has disappeared from view
>>151644796We are all watching the prestigious concacaf caribbean cup instead
>>151652694Because MLS is divided into West and East and includes Canada.
>>151644796only mexicans watch MLS and the mex league. They are both terrible quality.
>>151652879Because there are two leagues in MLS (Eastern and Western) after the league phase is done, the winner of which gets the Supporters' Shield, they and several other teams in each conference (again, West and East) and they play each other. East vs East and West vs West until the final which is then East vs West and the winner gets the MLS Cup.This decides who the 'title' winner is. If you came 1st in East or West league, you're just the Supporters' Shield winner for that conference, not the 'league title' winner.
>>151654711>>151652879I forgot to add it is actually way more complicated than that but that's as easy as I can sum it up. I tried to simplify it but was hard>East and West have league>Top 9 of both leagues go into the Playoffs playing in separate brackets>The wild-card round, conference semifinals, conference finals, and the MLS Cup are single-match eliminations. The better league performing team is the host for the advantage.>However the first round is actually a best-of-three system. So, for example in the image I used, Inter Miami play Nashville three times and the best-of-three winner progresses to the second round. Miami won the first one 3-1, so they need to win one more on Saturday to progress>If you draw all those games, it goes to a penalty shoot-out. Extra-time is only used in the semi-final onwards.>The teams ranked 8th and 9th in each conference compete in the Wild-card round, with the winner advancing to Round One against the first-place team in the conference, which has already happened this season>The other six teams play each other using the highest v. lowest match-ups: 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, and 4 vs 5. It was more confusing before when there was uneven team numbers, but I think they're all even now.
>>151654711>>151654822They should remove wildcards I think its dumb
>>151644877we get snow in winter (for now)
>>151652846no one really knows
>>151644796They need to change the playoff format asap, it's unnecessarily long and boring to watch.
>>151654822>>East and West have leagueI think they play inter-conference games. So it's not really a separate league, more like a separate imputed ranking.
How are my boys T.Müllel and Choupo Goating doing?
Hardly a soccer fan and I watched more USL than MLS this year
>>151653818I kept that thread alive on my own way to often. I gave up a couple years ago.It used to be fun though. We even had some tolerable tripfriends.
>>151644877They wouldn't do better against NBA & NHL and that also means playing mid-season games in February cold
>>151655398That’s what Infantino was probably screaming on the inside when Messi got eliminated in the wild card round
>>151653818/mls/ died before the paywall/talents/ killed it
>>151655398It's just to add a "high" stakes extra game for the TV contract
>>151673027I know but an unecessary prelim for an already bloated play offs with half of each confrence qualifying feels pointless
>>151644796I just noticed and started watching some games if they were on and I was not doing anything else. I still don't like the feel of the league, it seems fake compared to USL.
>>151644796Did cuckitini win or choke againthat's all >we care about
>>151672981Unc still got it
>>151673018What killed /talents/? The lack of talents?
>>151644796No one cares about MLS here, but I'm going to my team's home game this weekend after they got their asses kicked last Sunday. I've at least had fun this year with how much of a trainwreck the season started
>>151673199I suppose Lisa didn't go to Canada because she can't leave all her horses behind
>>151644796My local MLS has good attendance every game but no one cared when they won the MLS cup
Watching NYCFC right now
>>151673297Yeah, lack of talents is what happens when you let the mlelsoy run your national team and insert midget gnomes like diego lunass into the starting elevens
>>151678292Martinez is really good but the traffic cone defending on that goal was appalling. Especially from Malanda, who is usually solid.
>>151678356Attacking midfielder who looks like a fat criminal is one of the only cool types of soccer players
>>151678356>let the mlelsoy run your national teamThe national team has been like 90% players outside of MLS in recent years
>>151678356What?How is that relevant?
>>151644796I don't know about everyone else but I'm happy the Fire are back in the playoffsThat last game with Philly was so close thanks to Elliot with that insane goalToo bad Brady appears to suck at pensNext one back in Chicago. Hope we can at least make a series of itAnd to think it's all cause of GGG
>>151684297Brady? THE Tom Brady?
>>151684317Even better. Chris Brady. MY goalkeeper.
Because as a redneck alcoholic told me in a dive bar, “soccer’s for eurofags.” The most boring sport in America is not going to get attention. It’s laughable that the least entertaining sport is the most global sport. The first European/spanish country to try to make a football league will make bank.
>>151644796because MLS sucks dick
>Americans don’t care because divegrass is dogshit and there’s no shortage of better sports to watch here>Eurofags don’t care because the quality of play is probably dogshit and there’s definitely better divegrass to watch in their backyardHope this helps
>>151678356>those responsesdamn they easy to rattle
>>151673011>playing mid-season games in February coldSnow games would be amazing
>>151685224Yeah, but you won't attract as many Latin American players with sub 40 degree weather away trips for most of the season. It's not like the Prem where the money is worth it and winters are milder.
>>151684438>The first European/spanish country to try to make a football league will make bank.all attempts at a European handegg league failed quite quickly, most recently the ELF imploded just a few weeks ago after five seasons.
>>151685413All realitve to where the games are
