Mike Treacy
speaker
156 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Mike Treacy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
So in European analytics, you have essentially recruitment and then first team analysis.
In MLS, you have recruitment, first team analysis, but you have this third vector that I call portfolio management, right?
This cap structure in the MLS is put in place
with the intention of creating parity.
As you mentioned, it's highly complicated.
The best way for you to understand it would be like me saying, Tracy, I'm going to give you $10 million.
You can spend $2 million on NVIDIA, $7 million on Walmart, and $1 million on a speculative biotech stock.
You have to think of each player from a relative value perspective based on where they slot in your cap structure.
Well, at Austin, we're only nine months into our project here, and we just had some turnover with our sporting department.
And so I would say that we have yet to integrate and prove this portfolio management theory and the impact on success and points on the table.
But
As a market participant, when I read these rules, I like my brain immediately goes to the markets and portfolio allocation.
Yeah, correct.
Every player has a designated slot.
So a player that could come in as a DP could be terrible.
But if he's going to be a designated player, but that same player, if he is going to be a senior minimum salaried player, could be in the top percentile of talent for that specific slot.
And then within the league itself, you have different roster construction strategies.
You can either have three designated players, or you could opt for two designated players and four U22 players.
And the way the league works is they have a salary cap, but it's more of a salary cap charge.
So...
Showing 101–120 of 156 · page 6 of 8
← Previous
Next →