Where is D.C. United going to finish in MLS’s Eastern Conference?

D.C. United is going to be a playoff team in 2019. The job isn’t completely done yet, but when you’re 8 points clear with 3 games to play and none of the teams on the bubble are in remarkable form, you can go ahead and start penciling in a postseason game on your planner. Don’t just take it from me, a writer at a fan site that is emotionally invested in this team going to the playoffs: At the moment, FiveThirtyEight has the Black-and-Red’s probability of making the playoffs as being over 99%.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that United doesn’t lose their three remaining games (two of which are at home, and one of which is a home game against a historically bad FC Cincinnati team), and…