BY BILL REESE

Staff Writer

Remember August? Way back in the summer, reports suggested that Major League Soccer would revise it’s conferences and regular season format for the 2015 season when the 20th team, New York City F.C., planned to enter. The plan would have split the league into two even conferences playing a somewhat balanced 28-game schedule. Whether or not fans liked the shorter regular season, it seemed like a reasonable, thought-out plan – a rarity for MLS.

Last Tuesday’s announcement that Orlando City SC would become the league’s 21st franchise, joining concurrently with NYCFC for the 2015 season, made the league’s proposed 28-game schedule and equal conferences a near impossibility – thrown out the door before the league’s fans were even finished hating on it.

So, now what? A league with 21 clubs means that several conference and/or schedule changes need to be made.

I’ve come up with my favorite ways to re-arrange MLS’s conferences, schedules and playoffs for 2015. Of course, by the time this article is posted, the league will have added Miami Beckhams FC and we’ll have to start over again, but here goes …

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