2026 NWSL Previews: Houston Dash, North Carolina Courage

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Our 2026 NWSL Season Previews have started and today we hit Chicago and Bay. If you want to support this coverage of the league, you can head to our Patreon. For $5 a month you can get access to a lot of the data visualization tools we use to make these previews.

If you’re more of an audio person, our friends at Expected Own Goals spoke to Meredith about both the Dash and the Courage, available wherever you get your pods. If you want to support them, you can head to their Patreon.

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2026 NWSL Previews: Utah Royals, Angel City

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Our 2026 NWSL Season Previews have started and today we hit Chicago and Bay. If you want to support this coverage of the league, you can head to our Patreon. For $5 a month you can get access to a lot of the data visualization tools we use to make these previews.

If you’re more of an audio person, our friends at Expected Own Goals spoke to our own Catalina Bush on Utah Royals, and Trebor Tracy of Angels on Parade on Angel City. If you want to support them, you can head to their Patreon.

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2026 NWSL Previews: Chicago Stars, Bay FC

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Our 2026 NWSL Season Previews have started and today we hit Chicago and Bay. If you want to support this coverage of the league, you can head to our Patreon. For $5 a month you can get access to a lot of the data visualization tools we use to make these previews.

If you’re more of an audio person, our friends at Expected Own Goals spoke to the Everything Bay Goals podcast to talk Bay, and Lesley Ryder of Gal Pal Sports to talk the Stars. If you want to support them, you can head to their Patreon.

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2026 NWSL Previews: Denver Summit, Boston Legacy

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Our 2026 NWSL Season Previews have started and today we hit Denver and Boston. If you want to support this coverage of the league, you can head to our Patreon. For $5 a month you can get access to a lot of the data visualization tools we use to make these previews.

If you’re more of an audio person, our friends at Expected Own Goals have episodes for Denver with Catalina and Kieran who wrote these previews, and for Boston with Emma Healy of the Boston Globe, wherever you get your podcasts. If you want to support them, you can head to their Patreon.

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2026 MLS Previews: Inter Miami, Cincinnati, Philadelphia

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Our 2026 MLS Season Previews are ending and we finish with Inter Miami, FC Cincinnati, and Philadelphia. If you want to support this coverage of the league, you can head to our Patreon. For $5 a month you can get access to a lot of the data visualization tools we use to make these previews.

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The Prognostication Power Rankings

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By Paul Harvey

Since 2019, MLS has consistently had a panel of columnists, presenters, and other talent predict how the conference standings will end up at the close of the season. These prognostications are primarily to drive traffic and discussion from fans (how dare they pick us to finish 13th!) and for the most part, have not been revisited over time to see just how accurate they are. In fact, almost everyone forgets them until the end of the season where they can use them as bulletin board material.

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