The visual image almost made me fall out of the chair, good stuff!

But the golden boot is for the most goals. That’s it. Nothing else. If Jeff has the most goals this years (and I hope he will) than he is the most-deserving winner.

Landon won the Golden Boot last year on a team that snagged only 33 points during the season. So is he the reigning worst player to ever win it? Or does this kind of analysis only apply to teams/players that you don’t like?

And like A-Rod, Jeff’s only hit more meaningless homeruns (err, scored more meaningless goals) than one other person in the history of the league. And it just so happens that this year, he’s scored as many meaningless garbage-time goals as the best players in the league have scored in timely, meaningful situations.

Ugh. These kinds of sweeping generalizations may be good for sports talk radio and increasing page views, but man, they don’t make any sense anywhere else.

Now watch….he will hunt me down on BigSoccer and give me neg rep for posting this opinion. LOL.

#2 is irrelevent. A team out of the playoff picture struggles as hard or harder to score goals. It isn’t like other team are throwing out a bunch of reserve team players against FCD. Most of the teams FCD has played during Jeff’s streak have been teams fighting to get into the playoffs making his goals even more important.
3. WOW – I cannot believe you even typed this one. Just pure stupidity.

I think your article is the WORST SOCCER Article EVER.

1) I suppose you could say “least impactful” instead, but it’s easier just to say worst. He would be worst because he has scored almost all his goals after the team is out of contention.

I know he didn’t get to start until that point. I also know that several other players have won the boot playing for below average teams. But none of the previous winners have been in a situation like this (mostly due to the fact that there are more non-playoff teams now).

Also, while this is harder to measure, I think you could argue that he is having the worst season performance-wise of any of them. Of the previous 13, 5 were MVP winners, and 4 more were nominees. I don’t think Jeff will be an MVP nominee. Also, 12/13 were on the Best XI. I’d be surprised to see Jeff there as well.

2) FCD’s playoff odds were at less than 5% halfway into the season, and peaked at 11% since. I don’t think Sportsclubstats is perfect, but that seems pretty accurate to me:

http://www.sportsclubstats.com...as_ChanceWillMakePlayoffs.html

3) I’m not a big fan of “game winning goals” as a stat. I think it’s better to look at goals that have given your team a lead, since it doesn’t take defense into account. Because that’s what separates a “game winning goal” from any goal that gives your team the lead: how your defense performs.

Also, having fewer game winning goals doesn’t mean that Casey scores “early goals.” Haven’t looked that up, but I don’t think there would be much to that idea. I mean, I could tell you that several of Cunningham’s game winning goals have come in big victories (3-0, 6-0, 3-0). I just don’t think it’s a good stat period.

4) I’ll leave this argument for another day.

Yes, I’m a Chicago fan, and no, I don’t hate all things Dallas.