The 2017 New York Red Bulls will have a harder path to the silverware than the team's 2016 edition - and that's not just because Dax McCarty is gone. A quick overview of the Red Bulls' schedule indicates that the team will have an even more daunting schedule than last year.
More daunting, that is, if you give much weight to the MLSSoccer.com 2017 Strength of Schedule chart, which ranks teams' regular-seasons in order of difficulty based on the 2016 points-per-game average of their 2017 opponents.
For the season ahead, the league's official website reports that RBNY's 2017 opponents averaged 1.