Whether you are a soccer fan or not, if you like sports in general, you have to appreciate the final weekend of the MLS season this Saturday and Sunday.
An 8 team playoff starts next week, with significant advantages for the top 2 seeds in each division. And going into the 30th and final game, 6 teams have punched their ticket, with 6 more teams battling for the final 2 spots. There are about 1000 permutations for which 2 teams will sneak in.
Furthermore, in the West, the 4 teams that have already qualified all have 45, 45, 45, and 44 points respectively. What that means is that virtually any combination of teams could be 1,2,3,4.
TV wise, it couldn’t have worked out any better for MLS, as every game this weekend has playoff implications. Since few of the teams in the race are playing each other, every team has an important game.
I bring this up for our non-soccer fans, to ask you to imagine what the last weekend of November would look like for NCAA football fans, if 6-8 teams had to win to grab the final spots of an 8 team playoff….that would be fun…