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a clipping of the POWER RANKINGS FORM GUIDE spreadsheet with a box checked for "'Change' values instead of POWER RANK (shows POWER SHIFT from previous matchday ranking)
simply refuse to make this better for mobile users but just know there is some dumb stuff going on in a spreadsheet and somewhere out there desktop-using power rankings freaks are going hog wild
03.03.2026 23:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't just take my word for it... see the TACTICS FREE ZONE 2026 MLS POWER RANKINGS FORM GUIDE for yourself
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Now this is POWER RANKINGS
data is beautiful, etc
#PlayYourKids hits new heights, Quakes get their star & more from Matchday 2
Including a canary in the coalmine giving a big, big warning about the Union's bad start to their Supporters' Shield defense.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/playyourkids...
standing side by side with the pro rel zealots facing down the Soccer United Marketing war profiteers what has the world come to
28.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Really easy to just give in to cynicism tbh but we've got to keep pushing back and one of those places of pushback has to be @mls.bsky.social getting the fuck off polymarket
Not later, not after discussions
Right fucking now, my dogs
A clipping of a spreadsheet titled "2026 POWER RANKINGS FORM GUIDE" POWER RANKINGS freaks are going to get some mileage out of this and they don't deserve it to be honest
we're dealing with a lot of POWER in a spreadsheet it's getting dangerous
28.02.2026 05:58 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And here are the offseason grades for the Western Conference.
Lots of *good* work, but one truly outstanding job happening out there. And yeah, it's LAFC.
Got to praise John Thorrington for his work this window – and every window, pretty much.
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Offseason grades are in (one week late).
We're starting with the Eastern Conference, and folks, I'm finally about to give out some Fs. Including one to a Union team that's not playing to win the game.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/east-offseas...
The Sunday night column is back!
Matchday 1 saw LAFC make a statement, Cincy dive into The Discourse & plenty more around MLS.
Including a performance for the ages by the wrong guy late on Sunday night.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/lafc-send-a-...
His stack of 5 books is really incredible work
21.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Early returns suggest a lack of a funny commercial this season, but the overly serious home depot one and Idris sitting on zoom from his spare office bedroom at gunpoint might have some legs
21.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Here it is, my favorite column of the year: the 2026 Tiers of MLS!
All 30 teams, ranked by tier, with about 9000 words of analysis on why it’ll work — and why, quite possibly, it won’t — for each.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/ranking-all-...
Season preview time! Today I've got my 2026 predictions – MVP, Goalkeeper of the Year, Best XI and such.
Including a pretty damn compelling battle for Young Player of the Year.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/2026-predict...
Putting forward an award for future consideration: the "COME BACK!" Player of the Year, awarded to the outgoing transfer a team misses the most
18.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fifteen years ago, I got my dream job writing for MLSsoccer. Last week, that came to an end.
I'm off on my own, and it's time to build something new – with a little help from all of you.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/an-end-to-my...
Free newsletter: Every MLS team's biggest tactical question for 2026
My first launch on the Ghost ship!
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DO NOT ghost your inbox today,
there is a delivery on its way
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Filled in for @tombogert.bsky.social yesterday hosting Inside American Soccer with Tab Ramos, and we invited Marcelo Balboa along as well.
Me, Tab & Chelo. You know, just three legends who have all contributed roughly the same amount to the growth of US soccer.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Free newsletter: 2026 MLS Points Over/Unders, which in some ways is a measure of POWER!
Plus we're just hours away from our first installment of #MLSAfterDark for 2026.
We're back, baby!
open.substack.com/pub/tacticsf...
No sportsbook is brave enough to come up with MLS points total over/unders... but I am!
Me, @tombogert.bsky.social & @empiregass.bsky.social break it down in what has rapidly become my favorite podcast of the entire year. All 30 teams. Let's fuckin' go.
Free newsletter: With First Kick three weeks away I went team-by-team through MLS addressing the biggest remaining roster needs.
For some, it's quite a bit. For others, all the work seems done.
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Chucky Lozano is going through the MLS equivalent of Infernal Affairs III (2003) as the Andy Lau (Senior Inspector Lau Kin-Ming) to Carlos Vela's Tony Leung (Chan Wing-Yan)
I've been thinking about this for a year
Hearing that 6-7 usa based mls clubs will be wearing USA69 and USA420 patches. I'm not sure what significance the years 1957 and 1606 have, but in a very real sense it might have something to do with the Sinai Peninsula and Greenland, respectively
31.01.2026 01:13 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
SOCCERWISER RETURNS 🚨
Friends of the show @mattdoyle.bsky.social & Bobby Warshaw join @empiregass.bsky.social for a MLS roster building spectacular 🎉
Free newsletter: Every MLS team's best Breakout Player candidate for 2026
(and an mea culpa on the lack of a newsletter last week)
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More like MBA sucker partnership with Polyfartket
26.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sometimes I think about how the *good* outcome is that, for the rest of my life, our country is involved in a mass de-Nazification project. If we're lucky, that's what being an American is for the next 40 years.
24.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 209 🔁 31 💬 10 📌 0
Every single game this year. Make them hear you
24.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 291 🔁 69 💬 3 📌 5
We quit Twitter a long time ago but this still struck a nerve with some. That said, we’ve never regretted our decision.
www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/its-...