In an alternate history, Barcelona just won the Champions League
Last year, I examined how each year's UEFA Champions League final would've looked if the old format of only the league champions (plus the holders) was in place. The switch was made in 1997-98, and Manchester United was the first non-champion to win th...
Individual PPG for Current MLS Players
Here's the full list for all current players with 50+ starts, through this past Sunday. Shootouts counted as draws for the small handful of players that affected. This post shows the performance for a player's teams in all regular season matches that h...
Percentage of winning/losing teams by player
Here's the full list for every player who's played in at least five seasons. It's not winning and losing seasons, because some players played for multiple teams in a year due to trades. Each player is given credit for a team for which they made a regul...
MLS Lineup Database 1996-2011
Download Links4sharedorDepositfilesorMediafireSorry for not posting this earlier. I've been double checking quite a bit of stuff, and corrected some errors from last year. I'm sure it's still not perfect, though. Many thanks to Jason Barber who pointe...
NCAA D1 ranked by avg MLS GP
Stats for all division one NCAA schools that have had at least 10 players play a game in MLS. Ranked by average games played. Players Avg GP ...
2011 MLS Team Ages
Here's the numbers, which take into account all regular season minutes played: 1 NY 29.05 2 SEA 28.38 3 COL 28.25 ...
All Time PPG: every minute, scoring margin, home/away
So, here's the PPG data including every MLS regular season game ever through the past weekend. Shootouts are counted as draws, and all games that went to overtime use the score after 90 minutes.Well, there's actually one game which isn't included: DC...
2011 PPG for Every Margin, Every Minute
This week's MLSsoccer column:Climbing the Ladder: Who scores the most important goals?I've seen several people do this for other leagues (for example, Soccermetrics), but I've yet to see it for MLS. Using the data below, I determined how many points ea...
MLS: Goals by Month
Remember, there's only been a lot of March & October games in recent years, where there's been fewer goals overall than the inflated early years.Only counting the six months from April to September, here's the number of times each month has been th...
Gold Cup notes
1) The USA's loss to Panama is only their 6th in 51 Gold Cup games, and first in the group stage (as you might've heard by now). Previously, they had only lost to Brazil and Mexico. Both the Americans and the Mexicans now have six defeats each, though ...
Countdown to 10k goals: Update #2
We were at 9,544 goals scored by MLS players before the first competitive game of the season.2011 totals:MLS - 262 goals in 106 games.Open Cup qualifying - 25 goals in 8 games.Canadian Championship - 8 goals in 5 games. Hassli's in the canceled game do...
Countdown to 10k goals: Update #2
We were at 9,544 goals scored by MLS players before the first competitive game of the season.2011 totals:MLS - 262 goals in 106 games.Open Cup qualifying - 25 goals in 8 games.Canadian Championship - 8 goals in 5 games. Hassli's in the canceled game do...
