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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure of the "more scoring" needed idea.  Many soccer games are like 4-2 let's say.  That's equivalent to 28-14 football score, which is very normal.  Hockey is around there too. so I think soccer has just about the same amount of scoring as football and hockey.  [/quote]

Go do your research...

MLS Goals per game average 3.22
NHL Goals per game average ~6
NFL points per game average ~50, or 7-10 scoring events per game[/quote]

Since when is the MLS relevant? Back when the EPL’s predecessors were semi pro leagues filled with half drunk farmers playing drunker factory workers, scoring was though the roof- is that the golden age you want to return soccer too [/quote]

ok. The point is even more relevant if you consider EPL which has even less scoring per game. That's a super popular league in the US.  :D  You point to semi pro leagues where scoring is higher. I would also say that at the grassroots level, scoring is also higher. Maybe that is some of the attraction. All of this supports the assertion that substitution rules should be relaxed.[/quote]

So if your theory holds the MLS must be the most popular league in the world? Certainly more popular than the bundesleague la liga and the EPL[/quote]

You are silly, those are different markets so you can't compare them. I am talking about the US here and pointing out that more scoring is better for fan attendance and revenue, something soccer must gain in order to grow in this country.[/quote]

the MLS could average 10 goals a game- Americans don't like paying major league prices for a minor league product. Soccer in the country is perfectly fine- there is huge youth participation and some adult participation. I'm guessing there are more adults participating in soccer leagues than football. The fact that we don't care about the pro game shouldn't matter- there are plenty of sports that are healthy in this country where no one cares about professionals - look at running, cycling, swimming [/quote]

Well sure. MLS isn't as high a quality of soccer as ... well most other pro soccer leagues. That's not related to scoring, it's mostly related to average skill level. But we're talking about sub rules here affecting scoring so a more appropriate question for this discussion would be would MLS be more popular if the goals per game were higher?  The evidence says yes. 
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What evidence?  [/quote]

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