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Business of Soccer

To spend or not to spend? The cost of success in Major League Soccer

If making the playoffs is the benchmark for success, these teams can be grouped into two very distinct categories: teams that spend a lot of money to win and teams that efficiently do so to achieve the same results. Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York, the big market teams, spent money and will finish the regular season achieving their goals but with a high cost per point. Columbus, Real Salt Lake, and Kansas City compete efficiently and have a low cost per point.

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