The Most Expensive Rebuild in League History
Let’s get it out of the way right off the top. This is a tremendous amount of money to spend, and Atlanta better be good more or less right away, or there’s going to be a whole lot of pressure on Ronny Deila, Garth Lagerway, and Chris Henderson. Luckily for you, intrepid Five Stripes fan, they shouldn’t just be good, they should be really good.
Read MoreDC United’s 2024, Troy Lesene’s first in charge, brought new faces and a new style but eerily similar results to 2023. For the second straight season, the Black and Red finished with 40 points despite having a positive expected goal difference of five each season.
Read MoreSt. Louis, St. Losin’... Unless?
St. Louis City SC had a pretty gnarly 2024 season, after what felt like an exceptional 2023 maiden expansion season. We cautioned about the likely regression coming off the back of a season in which they posted the seventh highest xGD overperformance ever. Unfortunately, it came. St. Louis posted a -13 goal difference on a -10 expected goal difference in 2024, a far cry from the +18 GD-xGD of the 2023 season. More unfortunately, St. Louis also just played worse.
Read MorePreviewing a team who has never played a competitive soccer game is always a difficult task. How are they going to play? How do the pieces fit together? Are the pieces good? Luckily in the case of San Diego FC, we have at least some thinking behind things.
Read MoreASA, for our high quality and whimsical analysis of MLS, gets an awards ballot every year. This is the story of that awards ballot. If you want to hear us actually talk through those picks, check out the podcast.
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It’s taken us a little while but data from the new USL Super League is here! All the data you know and love from MLS, NWSL, the USL BroSo side of the world. It’s all there, just click the USL S logo in the interactive tables. It hasn’t quite found it’s way into the it’s called soccer python and R packages yet, but soon.
A hectic decision day has come and gone and the NWSL playoffs are soon upon us, as such it’s probably a good time to look at the Best XI by g+ in NWSL in 2023.
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