Re: [nas] MLS playoffs - who can win

I never said I was any great fan of the current system.  I don't like 2-leg.  I 
just explained what I thought was the league's reasoning for adopting it.  (And 
nobody ever notices that you can in fact eat some of your cake and still have 
some of it too).

Also, it reduces the higher seed's advantage, to be sure, but does not 
eliminate it (30 minutes out of 210, if you get that far, is a lot like 1 game 
out of 7, if you get that far, and you don't see that many 
baseball/basketball/hockey fans arguing it isn't enough.  Of course there you 
have the aesthetic advantage of both starting *and* ending the series at home).

And I'm not only concerned about 0:0 matches.  I don't find the higher seed 
winning on 1:1, 1:1 all that satisfying, either.  At least if they did the 
pre-series PK, it'd be 1:0, 1:1, 1:1.

As to the TV slot, one wonders how much it costs if it doesn't come up all that 
often.  The league must not think it's that much, or that it's worth it, as 
they could quite well have gone straight to PKs.  (Though, again, that renders 
the home field almost completely meaningless.)  

Only the fools think these are easy decisions.

Stan


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Allen <c.s.allen@charter.net>
Sent: Oct 29, 2004 1:59 PM
To: NAS <NAS@americakicks.com>
Subject: Re: [nas] MLS playoffs - who can win

On 29 Oct 2004 at 11:00, Stan Collins wrote:

> It does, but I don't think we'll ever stomach a team advanmcing
> without actually winning.  It's cruder, but somehow even giving the
> higher seed a penalty kick before the series would feel more
> rewarding.

Well, you can't have this both ways, Stan. You either find a way to give 
an advantage for the 2 leg system, or you live with the current system.

If you are concerned with having two teams play two 0:0 matches, then 
use another standby, away goals as the first tiebreaker. And two 0:0 
matches would be unlikely since goals/game is usually around 3. So 
2:1 and 1:2 would be more likely than two 0:0s.

And Rob raises another important point -- no OT and spilling over past 
the two hour time-buy limit -- which was one of the reasons why MLS 
killed OT for the regular season.

Cheers, Chris
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