How much did Major League Soccer teams spend to earn a league point in 2017? How much of their payroll actually saw time on the pitch instead of languishing on the bench or the rehab table?
We consider publicly available data such as base salaries, in-season arrivals and departures, minutes played by every player, and total points won to find out how successful MLS clubs were with plenty or with very little.
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Major League Soccer 2017 Front Office Efficiency
1. FRONT-OFFICE EFFICIENCY
How much did Major League Soccer clubs
spend to earn a league point in 2017?
We expose the difference between success
and failure in MLS front offices.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS
PAYROLL
UTILIZATION
PAYROLL COST
PER POINT
Annualized base pay pro-rated by player availability
in squad (not transferred, released, loaned or retired)
Proportion of playing time of team payroll to
maximum possible playing time of team payroll
Payroll multiplied by utilization divided by total
league points
DATA SOURCES
MLS Players Union Salary Data, 2017; Major League
Soccer; ENB Sports Player Database
SOCCERMETRICS RESEARCH 2017
WWW.SOCCERMETRICS.NET @soccermetrics
LA GALAXY $ 205,541
$10,609,108 payroll
62.0% utilization
32 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC $ 66,406
$7,013,623 payroll
49.2% utilization
52 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
CHICAGO FIRE $ 144,672
$11,911,304 payroll
66.8% utilization
55 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
ORLANDO CITY SC $ 174,974
$12,798,230 payroll
53.3% utilization
39 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
COLORADO RAPIDS SC $ 116,474
$7,453,836 payroll
51.6% utilization
33 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
TORONTO FC $ 207,850
$20,210,200 payroll
71.0% utilization
69 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
COLUMBUS CREW SC $ 61,751
$6,344,453 payroll
52.6% utilization
54 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
SPORTING KANSAS CITY $ 77,762
$6,317,417 payroll
60.3% utilization
49 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
DC UNITED $ 73,997
$4,940,137 payroll
47.9% utilization
32 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES $ 76,296
$7,258,479 payroll
48.4% utilization
46 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
FC DALLAS $ 68,837
$5,953,962 payroll
53.2% utilization
46 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
$ 79,307
$5,978,341 payroll
59.7% utilization
45 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
NEW YORK RED BULLS $ 76,452
$6,501,382 payroll
58.8% utilization
50 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC $ 123,468
$9,538,960 payroll
68.6% utilization
53 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
HOUSTON DYNAMO $ 54,673
$5,053,140 payroll
54.1% utilization
50 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
REAL SALT LAKE $ 87,287
$7,786,091 payroll
50.5% utilization
45 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
IMPACT DE MONTRÉAL $ 77,049
$5,726,709 payroll
52.5% utilization
39 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
PORTLAND TIMBERS $ 110,342
$9,530,632 payroll
61.4% utilization
53 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
PHILADELPHIA UNION $ 74,113
$6,514,277 payroll
47.8% utilization
42 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
NEW YORK CITY FC $ 175,177
$16,686,931 payroll
59.8% utilization
57 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
ATLANTA UNITED FC $ 87,238
$8,286,389 payroll
57.9% utilization
55 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT
MINNESOTA UNITED FC $ 68,372
$5,033,769 payroll
48.9% utilization
36 points
PAYROLL COST PER POINT