MLS Single Table

What the MLS would look like under a single table.

1. FC Dallas 11-3-5 36PTS 19GMS
2. DC United 9-6-2 33PTS 17GAMES
3. Houston Dynamo 7-8-3 29PTS 18GMS
4. Colorado Rapids 7-3-6 24PTS 16GMS
5. Red Bull Ny 5-9-5 24PTS 19GAMES
6. CD Chivas USA 6-5-6 23PTS 17GMS
7. Chicago Fire 5-7-5 22PTS 17GAMES
8. NE Revolution 5-7-6 22PTS 18GAMES
9. Columbus Crew 4-8-5 20PTS 17GAMES
10. Real Salt Lake 5-4-8 19PTS 18GAMES
11. KC Wizards 5-2-9 17PTS 16GAMES
12. LA Galazy 4-4-10 16PTS 18GAMES

Now how can you take unbalanced schedules and make a single table? Isn't that a little weak, what with the way DCU has feasted on an usually weak Eastern Conference? Well no. Not if we only let teams play each other twice. In order to do that I only counted the first two meetings between teams, which hurt a few teams, but overall didn't really change things too much.

So throw in promotion and relegation and LA and KC would both be gone and right now Montreal and Charleston would be coming up. Of course chances are with Toronto joining next year you would just want to relegate one team to have a 14 team top flight.

But as promotion/relegation will never happen between leagues owned by different entities and MLS single table remains not much more than a rumor/pipe dream of the future.