On the road tonight, so I thought I would re-run an interview from February looking at the MLS schedule. Back live tomorrow. Ever Winter, Major League Soccer releases its schedule for the upcoming season. In addition to setting out the slate of games, the initial release sets out the national television schedule, establishes breaks for [...]
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Very busy week of games in Major League Soccer. Before we get to the attendance figures here is an article from the San Jose Mercury News with club President Dave Kaval. The article provides some information about team season ticket sales (4,000) and preparations for a move into the team’s new stadium. The article also [...]
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It has been a while since we last took a look at team promotional efforts around MLS. The amount of deep discounting and promotions have been noticeably lower this year. Before we get to the promotions, one note on the much hyped NBC Sports match-up between Philly and Seattle on Saturday. Given past rating patterns, [...]
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The viewership numbers are in for a few of mid-week clashes from across the pond and the numbers are quite impressive. From the AP (via Cnnsi.com, “Both Champions League semifinals and the Manchester derby for first place in the Premier League averaged more 1 million television viewers in the U.S. despite weekday afternoon starting times. [...]
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The big soccer story on Monday was not an American soccer story. Rather, it was the battle for Manchester and the Premier League lead when Manchester City hosted Manchester United as the EPL nears the end of the 2011/2012 campaign. Although the match took place in England, the significance of the game was evident in [...]
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Full slate of games in Major League Soccer this weekend. Before we get to the attendance figures, one quick note. The NFL draft was the weekend and the first overall pick, Andrew Luck, is someone with Major League Soccer ties. Luck’s father, Oliver Luck, was the head of the Dynamo front office until recently and [...]
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On the road, so I thought I would honor Footiebusiness Contributor Dave Laidig but putting one of his earlier posts out for consumption. For those who enjoyed Dave’s great three part series on player valuation, here is a post from April 2011 about selling soccer through stats. Every so often, we are fortunate to have [...]
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Dave Laidig is back with the second part of his series looking at the use of statistics and numbers in soccer. For Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. So far, this series has focused on analyzing objective measures of performance. In Part 1, we covered the Castrol Index and an adjusted index [...]
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One of the biggest off-season stories was the start of the NBC/MLS relationship. To date, the broadcasts have been high quality, the announcers first rate and the ratings slightly better than expected. Most impressive has been promotional efforts of the Peacock. The NBC Sports Network has done an excellent job putting MLS in front of [...]
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Busy weekend in Major League Soccer, but before we get to the attendance numbers, here are a couple of quick hitters from the last couple of days. The Philly Inquirer provided this article over the weekend that looked at Philadelphia areas sports fans and teams. Perhaps most interesting from the soccer perspective, was the statement [...]
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