When Andrea Pirlo Departs, NYCFC Need to Embrace the Trend and Sign a Young DP

Recently, MLS released their post-transfer window summary of the league’s players. Included were a variety of statistics including country of birth of players, and even state/province of birth. One statistic that jumped out to me was the average age of Designated Players. It is decreasing, which is a positive sign for the league. So, I decided to examine how the age of NYCFC’s average DP has compared to the rest of MLS:

It doesn’t matter that NYCFC have a smaller sample size than much of the rest of the league.