For the majority of Major League Soccer we are at the halfway line, the middle of the road, or whatever stupid cliche you enjoy using to signify one-half of something. A couple clubs have cross that line and a couple others are a game away from reaching that very point.

With all the talk recently about where clubs stand and what not in respect to the playoff picture I thought it would be a good time as ever to layout each club’s record along with their record at the midway point from the previous three seasons. I figured this would show us really where clubs stand and will look to go.

Now of course in previous years various factors happened that caused a team to do well and make the playoffs or in like Toronto’s case a year ago, falter and lose a majority of their final 15 games.

I will go into each club’s record now and then. Feel free to discuss this as you will. Its all for fun and to point out a couple things and its not to really predict all that much. I didn’t include San Jose in this due to their two-year hiatus from the league when they moved to Houston.

Also, I only went as far back as 2005 because that’s when the league began expanding once again. You get a better sense of things when there are more clubs and loss playoff spots than say 10 clubs and eight playoffs spot.

It seems that after 15 games or so if a club has around 20 points they are well on their way to a playoff birth for that season. Some clubs have managed to get out of some holes and get to the playoffs in the second half of the season, while others have stumbled up a bit.

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