Survivor Experts Blog

Survivor Pro: Hard work pays off for Crew

Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:23 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Los Angeles Galaxy, Frank Yallop, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, D.C. United, Joe Cannon, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Survivor Pro, Frankie Hejduk, Bruce Arena, Darren Huckerby, Donovan Ricketts, Robert Warzycha, Juan Carlos Osario, Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Alecko Eskandarian, Bobby Convey, Real Madrid, Curt Onalfo, Jeff Agoos, Seattle Counders FC, FC Barcelona

This week, all-world striker Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid get set to tackle Toronto FC at BMO Field. On paper, this looks like a mismatch -- and it will be. That's why the Top Choice for the week is Los Galaticos. Oh, wait -- that's just an exhibition, Read More...

Galaxy gathering steam behind reserves

Who says that the Los Angeles Galaxy need Landon Donovan and David Beckham when they've got the likes of Edson Buddle and Alan Gordon ? The MLS season has reached the point where coaches have to figure out what they've got not just with their First XI, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:58 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: David Beckham, Colorado Rapids, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, D.C. United, Edson Buddle, Taylor Twellman, Alan Gordon, Landon Donovan, Steve Nicol, New England Revolution, Steve Ralston, Matt Reis, Shalrie Joseph, Survivor Pro, Jay Heaps, Bruce Arena, Tony Sanneh, Donovan Ricketts, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza, Gregg Berhalter

Survivor Pro: Coach change won't hurt TFC

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:52 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Chivas USA, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, Survivor Pro, John Carver, Stefan Frei, Chris Cummins, Nick Dasovic

Less than a month into the season and we got our first coaching change in MLS. Surprisingly, the news is not out of New York, Columbus, Dallas or Los Angeles, but rather Toronto with the resignation of TFC skipper John Carver. The colorful (sorry, colourful) Read More...

Survivor Pro: Stick with Chivas USA

Hopefully, you were lucky enough to survive last week's landmine-filled matches (as far as Survivor Pro is concerned, not the real thing, of course), which featured three draws, two upsets and one predictable win. If not, then we're all in the same boat, Read More...

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 6:43 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Chivas USA, Toronto FC, San Jose Earthquakes, Kenny Cooper, Survivor Pro, Zach Thornton, Seattle Sounders FC, Kasey Keller, Darren Huckerby

Survivor Pro: Only the strong survive

Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:18 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Chivas USA, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Davy Arnaud, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Fredy Montero, Seattle Sounders FC, Claudio Lopez

Saturday will mark the first time that MLS has held a seven-game slate in a single night. The Revolution have the night off, but all other teams are in action and there's some quality matches to keep an eye on for Survivor Pro . Sure, so far this season Read More...

Survivor Pro: Forming an opinion

Week 3 of the MLS season is filled with a full slate of seven games, starting Thursday night when Real Salt Lake hosts the Columbus Crew in their home opener at Rio Tinto Stadium. There are a number of matches worth recording on your DVR (Seattle at Toronto Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:47 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Juan Pablo Angel, FC Dallas, Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, New England Revolution, Matt Reis, Survivor Pro, Zach Thornton, Seattle Sounders FC, Brad Knighton, Rio Tinto Stadium

Survivor Pro: Take stock, mentally and physically

Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:36 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Chicago Fire, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, Kenny Cooper, Landon Donovan, Survivor Pro, Brian McBride, Amado Guevara, Seattle Sounders FC, Tony Sanneh, Devon McTavish, Ryan Nelsen, Greg Janicki

The first weekend of the regular season has come and gone and the results either left fans wanting more of the same (Chicago, Seattle, Toronto) or flipping the calendar to find the last game of the regular season (New York, Dallas). While it is only one Read More...

Survivor Pro: National duty hampers league play

Major League Soccer has tried to do a lot of things right, but one of the challenges that league faces is what to do about teams who become desperately short-handed when a league match is played on the same day as a World Cup qualifying matches. There's Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:58 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Carlos Ruiz, Pat Onstad, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Dwayne De Rosario, Brian Ching, Chad Barrett, USA, Ricardo Clark, Alan Shearer, Kevin Harmse, Jim Brennan, Tyler Hemming, Shavar Thomas, Danny Dichio, Greg Sutton, BMO Field, John Carver, Julius James, Jarrod Smith, MLS, Michael Owen, Tyrone Marshall, Amado Guevara, Marvell Wynne, Sacha Klejstan

Survivor Pro: Many choices, few instant winners

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:12 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Colorado Rapids, Real Salt Lake, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, Carlos Ruiz, Alan Gordon, New England Revolution, Matt Reis, Survivor Pro, Maurice Edu, Louis Crayton, World Cup qualifier, Bruce Arena, Olympics, Emmanuel Ekpo, Fantasy Pro, Kerry Zavagnin

There's plenty of movement on and off the field this week in Major League Soccer, and there's plenty of competitions to choose from in terms of Survivor Pro with an eye-popping nine games this week. Oh yeah ... and don't forget about World Cup qualifiers Read More...

Survivor Pro: Picking a winner by default

After a month-long hiatus, we're back ... and shocked to discover that Spaniards are now ruling the world. First the Spanish national team dominates Germany in the Euro 2008 championship to win the country's first European title in 44 years. Then Rafael Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:04 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: David Beckham, Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, D.C. United, Edson Buddle, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Josh Wolff

Survivor Pro: Be aware of player movement

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:48 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Juan Pablo Angel, Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Chicago Fire, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, D.C. United, Jozy Altidore, Landon Donovan, Survivor Pro, Frankie Hejduk, Brad Guzan, USA, Spain, Brian McBride, Villareal, Fulham, England, Ricardo Clark, Maurice Edu, Pablo Mastroeni, Oscar Echeverry, Claudio Reyna, John Wolyniec, Mike Magee, Bob Bradley

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller This time of year, there are four major areas where a Survivor Pro players needs to focus their attention in order to make certain what players Read More...

Survivor Pro: FCD searching everywhere for spark

Apologies for the delay in posting this week's blog, but we were just trying to gather our shock from Steve Morrow's sacking with FC Dallas. We could maybe understand if it had been Tommy Soehn in D.C. given how underwhelming that team has performed thus Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:11 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Bobby Boswell, Toronto FC, D.C. United, Zach Wells, Manchester United, Clyde Simms, Troy Perkins, Cristiano Ronaldo, Steve Morrow, Michael Hitchcock, Freddy Adu, Marco Ferruzzi, Luciano Emilio

Survivor Pro: Steady East, Wild West

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:36 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Houston Dynamo, Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, Landon Donovan, Steve Nicol, New England Revolution, Chris Albright, Jaime Moreno, Jeff Larentowicz, Posh Spice, Sainey Nayassi, Steve Ralston

We wanted to take this week to expand upon Landon Donovan's incredible first month of the season (one of the best in recent memory by MLS standards) and how he has lifted our fantasy team to the top of its league, but that's the other guy's column . Our Read More...

Survivor Pro: Be selective

We hate to break this to you, but it's time that someone said something: You're not as smart as you think you are. Come to think of it, neither are we. What are we talking about? Picking winners from MLS games, of course! In case you have not heard, the Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:59 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Chivas USA, Kansas City Wizards, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, D.C. United, Laurent Robert, Mauricio Castro, Steve Nicol, Los Angles Galaxy, Press Your Luck, Joe Franchino, New England Revolution

Survivor Pro: Consistently consistent

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:02 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, D.C. United, Tony Caig, Pat Onstad, Will Hesmer

We've decided that it would be best not to dwell on last week's results and just look ahead to this week's upcoming matches. We'd like to blame the unusual weekend weather -- 44 degrees in Kansas City on Saturday, 89 degrees in Carson, Calif. on Sunday Read More...