Messi said that he must enter the playoffs! Can Miami come back by 12 points behind? The Science American Professional League Special Competition Format

After the official announcement of Messi's official arrival, Miami International lost again and continued to rank bottom of the East, can they fight back to advance to the playoffs? Not very difficult.

Messi's friend Sergio Aguero once revealed that Messi had personally told him that Internacional Miami must enter the playoffs, but the king obviously thought things simple.

The MLA has a total of 29 teams, divided into two halves like the NBA, with 15 teams in the East and 14 teams in the West. Located in the East, Miami International currently sits first in the bottom of the 15 teams.

Like the NBA, MLS is divided into regular season and playoffs. In the regular season, all teams play 34 games, of which the Eastern team plays 2 games each season against 14 opponents in the division, for a total of 28 games; Playing 6 games with 6 of the 14 teams in the West, it adds up to 34 games.

As for the playoffs, this season it will be restructured to follow the example of the NBA, with the top 7 advancing directly, and the 8th and 9th playing the playoffs so that the winner can catch the last train of the playoffs. In other words, if Internacional Miami wants to play in the playoffs, it must first finish in the top 9.

However, they are currently 12 points behind No. 9-placed Washington United and Wayne Rooney's two games less, 14 points behind eighth-placed Chicago Fire by one game and 17 points behind seventh-placed Atlanta United by two games less.

With 12 league games left to play, there is theoretically a chance, and after the arrival of strong reinforcements such as Messi and Sergio Busquets, the results should also improve.

However, the data shows that since 2000, none of the 48 teams with 22 points or less in the first 22 MLA games has made the playoffs! What's more, Miami International has a lot of opponents in front, poor defense but no recruitment, plus strong as Messi also needs to adapt to time, so it is difficult to counterattack and enter the playoffs! But a cup like the League Cup, under the leadership of the king of the ball, may have a chance to impact the championship.