Ian and Harrison are back from their various offseason activities to break down a whole lot of MLS goings on.
Intro Music: Let's Go Get The Goal (MLS) - Don't Kick The Baby
Outro Music: Have You Seen my Son? - Benjamin Booker
This week Ian and Harrison discuss the USMNT (5:00) NYCFC in the stat of the week (27:00) and weigh in on the Supporters Shield (45:00)
Intro Music: Let’s Go Get the Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick The Baby
Outro Music: The Way We Move - Langhorne Slim & The Law
Not one, not two, but THREE Stats of the Week. The boys discuss Josef Martinez again and Colorado’s new found appearance of competency (5:00). Seattle are back on their second half thing but how are they doing it? (28:00) Harrison expresses dismay at the lack of Jonathan Lewis in his “young guns” segment(45:00).
Intro Music: Let’s Go Get the Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick the Baby
Outro Music: Easy Kid - J.E. Sunde
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The ASA guys are joined by USSF Hackathon Champion Kevin Minkus to break down the current state of target forwards in the stat of the week (3:00) Much has been made this week about Philly being fun and the guys dissect their season (26:30) Harrison spotlights another one of his favorite young players, Handwalla Bwana (41:00) and Kevin shares some fun “US Soccer landscape history” with us (52:00)
Intro Music: Let’s Go Get the Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick The Baby
Outro Music: Great Vacation - Dirt Poor Robins
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Ian greatly underestimates how many defensive actions are performed in our stat of the week (7:00), Harrison and Ian opine about potential trades and Harrison has his Taylor Twellman moment (30:00).
Intro Music: Let’s Go Get the Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick The Baby
Outro Music: Jetpack Blues, Sunset Hues - Anamanaguchi
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The ASA boys are back this week with a very special guest Eliot McKinley (@etmckinley)! The stat of the week from @thedummyrun discusses the metric of “save efficiency” (2:30), and Eliot shares his experience at the latest USSF hackathon where team ASA and friends were awarded top prize (21:00).
Here's a link to an article about decision making in the final third that somebody mentions.
Intro Music: Let’s Go Get The Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick The Baby
Outro Music: Don’t Wait For Him - Side Saddle
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Harrison and Ian have World Cup Fever and the only cure is talking about Major League Soccer. They discuss DC United’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in this week’s Interesting Stat of the Week. (7:00) Aftewards they engage in a little game of “Where are the Goals?” featuring some of MLS’ least prolific scorers (27:30). Special thanks to @ExiledMLS for the stat of the week and all of our listeners for tuning in! Happy World Cup!
Intro Music: Let’s Go Get The Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick The Baby (Eds. note: Does this song inspire anyone else to want to kick a baby?)
Outro Music: Everybody Wants to Love You - Japanese Breakfast
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It’s a slighty shorter version of the ASA show as Ian and Harrison discuss World Cup Callups in our stat of the week from @stathunting (3:30) and ponder the value of homefield advantage (26:00). Apologies for some lesser audio quality this week. We’re investigating and should have things back to scratch next time!
Intro Music: Go Get the Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick The Baby
Outro Music: Messidona - Driver Friendly
We have not one but TWO interesting stats of the week and we talk GK xG and the art of blocking (1:10). After that we take a deep dive into Sporting Kansas City’s season which ventures into discussion of the LA Galaxy and some weird MLS fan fiction from Harrison (22:30)
Into Music: Let’s Go Get The Goal (MLS) - Don’t Kick The Baby
Outro Music: Oh, Heart - Tank and the Bangas
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A special bonus episode of the ASA Show! Jared Young and Jamie Hamilton of These Football Times discuss analytics, science, philosophy, and many more ideas about the beautiful game.
Outro Music: Jimmie’s Song (Full Band Version) - Emmanuel & the Fear
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Harrison is back and he and Ian waste no time getting to Kendall’s big night and the interesting stat of the week (2:05). Harrison wants to know what’s the deal with set pieces (15:00). The boys buckle down on the West Coast and possibly alienate a sizable portion of their listener base (29:00) and finally, they talk about this Wayne Rooney bloke and how he fits in at DC United (50:00). Outro Music: How Did I Get Through the Day? - Har Mar Superstar
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Jared Young (@jaredeyoung) is back again this week covering for Harrison and the boys talk through balls. Er…throughballs (1:30) Ian and Jared respond to a listener’s concerns about Seattle (10:00) Jared teaches Ian and America about “P-Score” (19:45) and finally the boys talk about the week that was in MLS (35:00) Outro Music: Baltimore - Mal Blum
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This week, Jared Young (@jaredeyoung) of ASA and Stars and Stripes FC fills in for Harrison and we talk penalties in the Interesting Stat of the Week (1:30) Jared ponders where all of these goals are coming from (7:00) the boys try and make sense of Vancouver (22:00) and finally hit up all of last week’s MLS action (30:00).
Intro Music: The Worst MLS Country Music Song EVER
Outro Music: I Like You The Best - Remember Sports
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Don't panic! Jason Poon joins Harrison Crow and Ian Lamberson as they discuss FC Dallas from a reasonable and balanced perspective examining the past, present and future, including The Hoops' troubled 2017 season. Jason explains to the guys the many issues that have come up over the year and provides some theories as to what the season may still hold going forward.
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We're back (again). This time we're going to discuss the quotes from Pablo Mastroeni's press conference, why they have merit, and things that we have to consider with teams that goes beyond just the data that we're collecting now. After that conversation we focus on the 40-man preliminary roster with the USMNT and some of those key players coming from MLS.
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Drew and Sean are joined by ASA contributor and University of Virginia assistant-coach A.J. Barnold (@ajbarnold) to talk about the USMNT roster and the team under Arena, the MLS SuperDraft, how MLS teams identify and scout talent, and the role of the college game in the MLS and USMNT development structure. A.J.'s article (co-written with Aaron Neilsen) on the players available in the draft can be read here.
We mention a couple articles during the podcast. Here is Bill Reno's article on how terrible MLS teams are at selecting goalkeepers in the SuperDraft, and here is his article on why Blake didn't deserve to win Goalkeeper of the Year in 2016.
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Drew, Sean, and Jared are back! (again). This podcast is all about the USMNT.. Brace yourselves.
Here's Jared's article defending Jurgen, but we all know he doesn't really believe it... right?
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Drew and Sean are back! We begin by talking about how dumb Pokemon is and how cool Rogue One looks, but then even leave some time to talk about MLS! We give our takes on if NYCFC and Colorado are actually good, we give our guesses on if Toronto can actually be beaten by the rest of the East, and argue over if the Union are over or under performing. Then, like some morons, we dissect Bruce Arena's tirade against analytics and try to figure out of Portland, Seattle, or San Jose is most likely to grab a playoff spot.
At one point Drew says that this Giovinco article about his shooting was by @lowedownstats. Rob Lowe does cool work, but it was actually Alex Brodsky (@highpressblog). Check him out!
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Drew, Sean, and Kevin get the old band back together to get hiphy about the upcoming MLS season. They go through every team in each conference from bottom up, and give their thoughts on the campaign ahead. There are no references to stupid Harry Potter.
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This week it's Drew, Harrison, and Jared talking the USMNT's 2-0 win over Peru at RFK stadium, the 37-1 drubbing against Brazil in Foxborough, and upcoming USA-Mexico game on October 10th.
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