MLS Soccer Chess league Rules and points system
Hello again fellow chess players, This Blog is going to tell you all the rules you need to know.
Each of the 29 clubs will play 34 matches in the Regular season At the end of the MLS Regular Season, the top seven teams from each conference will automatically qualify to the Round One Best-of-1 series while the next two teams in each conference standings will qualify for a single-elimination MLS Cup Playoffs Wild Card match. The winners of each Wild Card game will earn a spot in the Round One Best-of-1 series.
Clubs will receive three points for a win, one point for a tie and zero points for a loss.
Each team can select a maximum of 20 players for per game
Tiebreaks will be broken by the following
Total number of wins
Game win Differential (GWD) (ex. Team A plays Team B and wins 8-6 Team A gets 2 GWD 8-6=2)
Games Won For (GWF) (ex. In the same example Team A would get 8 GWF (draws don't count))
The end of season tournament will have 3 rounds and 18 teams. 9 from the west and 9 from the east. First a wild card round then Round 1, Round 2 and then the finals. Each round will consist of one game.
If there are any questions I will answer them in this forum: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/clubs-and-teams/mls-chess-league