When compared to other American sports, the Designated Player rule in MLS is fairly straightforward; we’re used to dealing with compensatory draft picks and allocation money and other arcane rules of salary cap management from our dealings with the NFL, NBA, and MLB. We’ve seen trades made to free up cap room, seen draft picks [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Designated Player Rule’
MLS Further Complicates the Designated Player Rule
Posted in MLS, tagged Designated Player Rule, MLS, Rules and Regulations on August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Failure of the Designated Player
Posted in MLS, tagged Designated Player Rule, MLS on November 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The waning minutes of New Yorks’s MLS Playoff loss to San Jose delivered what was, perhaps, the perfect metaphor for the designated player rule. In the 75th minute, San Jose subbed off Designated Player Geovanni and were promptly rewarded with two goals; to chase those goals, New York threw on their third designated player (Thierry [...]
Rules and Regulations: The Designated Player Rule
Posted in MLS, Transfers Rules and Legalese, tagged Designated Player Rule on July 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
2009 MLS PLAYER RULES AND REGULATIONS SUMMARY
