When Major League Soccer announced last week that it would use points per game to determine seeding for the Audi 2020 MLS Cup Playoffs, Sporting Kansas City Manager Peter Vermes wasn’t exactly singing songs of celebration.
The league’s decision was perfectly justifiable considering the fact that clubs would end the 2020 regular season with an uneven number of games played due to COVID-19. Vermes’ only concern was that Sporting no longer controlled their own destiny when it came to the pursuit of a No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.
Fast-forward to now, however, and that destiny is back in Sporting’s control without the club playing a single game.