10 days before the 2020 MLS season will conclude on Decision Day, MLS has officially updated how teams qualify for the playoffs. Because many teams will not play a “full,” 23-game season, points per game (PPG) will replace total points as the metric to determine seeding.
The move sees Sporting Kansas City drop from first place to second place in the Western Conference behind the Seattle Sounders who have a game in hand. Seattle’s 1.84 PPG just edges out SKC’s 1.80 PPG.
The change came about because of COVID outbreaks that caused games to be cancelled.