Qualification into the playoffs works as follows: The 4 division champions from each conference (the team in each division with the best overall record), which are seeded 1 through 4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record.
"We want to buy him the MLS Cup," Sarvas said, which immediately led to two assumptions: Either Sarvas doesn't understand how the MLS playoffs work, since you can't actually buy the championship, or the Galaxy will stop at nothing, including bribery, to send Donovan off a winner.
The Major League Soccer playoffs work on a point system, with teams taking 3 for a victory and 1 for a draw; the first team to accumulate 5 points in the three-game series will advance to the finals Oct. 15 in Washington against the winner of the Los Angeles-Kansas City series.
A palpable push for the playoffs was at work Monday for the Ducks, who used the third of four consecutive days off to grind through a two-hour practice.
WHILE this is the second year of the FedEx Cup, there is still confusion about how the playoff system works.
The way the playoff structure works, the Heat, as the conference's No. 1 seed, will face the No. 8 seed in the first round; that will almost certainly be the Milwaukee Bucks.
We tried to line ourselves up for the playoffs, and that worked.
As the team claws toward the playoffs, he is working the routine of a pennant chase back into his life.
Some moves, like a deal for Richard Jefferson and his subsequent trade for Stephen Jackson, who was released on the eve of the playoffs, have not worked out.
Despite original statements from the team that he would not return for the playoffs, Malhotra began working his way up from light practices with the team in May 2011.
