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1. www.nytimes.com › athletic › 1362372/2019/11Inside the confidential 2016 study that provided the ...

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   Nov 8, 2019 · With regard to perceived quality, the study suggests that MLS would be better off de-emphasizing a high-profile player’s footprint and focusing more on the quality of their play. They recommend...

2. www.nytimes.com › athletic › 5386347/2024/04How the NHL’s quality of competition changes in the playoffs

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   Apr 3, 2024 · The top defenseman faces an average Offensive Rating of 2.5 in the regular season which jumps up to 4.6 during the playoffs. The top four are all well above what an average No. 1 faces, with...

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3. www.nytimes.com › athletic › 3009792Out of balance: As 2021 ends, MLS continues to show that ...

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   Dec 10, 2021 · The quality of play might be lower than it could be, the league might be mostly irrelevant in many of its biggest markets and TV ratings might be tiny, but new, richer investors are hopping on...

4. www.espn.com › sports › soccerMajor League Soccer -- Just how good is MLS compared ... - ESPN

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   Nov 29, 2011 · In their seminal book "Soccernomics," Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski prove that there is a very reliable correlation between a team's payroll and how well it places in the...

5. www.si.com › soccer › 2021/12/03MLS playoff format's problems—and why for some they're a ...

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   Dec 3, 2021 · A larger percentage of MLS teams qualify for the postseason (51.9%) than in the NFL, NHL, NBA or MLB. And once they get in, they’ve got to survive just three (for the top seeds) or four games.

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6. worldsoccertalk.com › news › study-mls-ranked-29thStudy: MLS ranked 29th most competitive soccer league in world

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   Jan 25, 2023 · “We rate the MLS as the 29th-best league in the world, so it is not that low. But, the difference with the MLS is that the quality is much more concentrated.” Chaudhuri means that MLS is much more competitive.

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   What is the difference between the NFL and MLS?

   • The NFL and MLS are a bit more complicated. Last season, the NFL increased the number of playoff teams to 14, or 43.8%. It’s still more exclusive than MLS, but the difference will drop if the latter sticks with 14 as it expands to 30 members (it’ll be at 28 in 2022 as Charlotte FC enters).

   MLS Has a Playoffs Problem. Or Does It? - Sports Illustrated

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   Is Major League Soccer a top competitive soccer league in the world?

   • Major League Soccer has been working to grow its standing as a top competitive soccer league in the world. Yet, a new study may do damage to that metric. Twenty-First Group is a sports intelligence agency that works to compare leagues across continents. Think of Five Thirty Eight’s Global Soccer Rankings.

   Study: MLS ranked 29th most competitive soccer league in world

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   How does a Soccer League rank its players?

   • What this means is you can more or less tally what a club spends on player salaries and, by comparing it to others, rank where it ought to place in the standings at the end of the season. Logically, the same goes for leagues as a whole, given that players are free to move to the highest bidder in the rest of the soccer world.

   Major League Soccer -- Just how good is MLS compared to other ... - ES…

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   Why are players not paid their market value?

   • Players aren't paid their market value, because there is no market. In their seminal book "Soccernomics," Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski prove that there is a very reliable correlation between a team's payroll and how well it places in the standings, that unequivocal measure of quality.

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   Which men's leagues are hard to characterize?

   • Among the five major men’s leagues, the MLB, NHL and NBA are pretty easy to characterize. The baseball playoffs are tough to make—just one-third qualify after a 162-game regular season grind—and the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals are tough to win. There, you don’t advance if the favorite has one uncharacteristically bad night, or even three.

   MLS Has a Playoffs Problem. Or Does It? - Sports Illustrated

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   Why is there so much disparity between the best and worst players?

   • And in no other league in the world is the disparity between the best and worst players so large. This is partly to blame on the lack of promotion or relegation to a second tier or easy movement of players between different American leagues, preventing the natural selection of talent.

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8. www.espn.com › soccer › insiderCan MLS really become one of the top leagues in the world?

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   Dec 8, 2023 · With Messi's first MLS season over and the Columbus Crew winning MLS Cup, now is the time take stock: After 28 years, just how good is MLS? Can it ever compete with Europe?