Every 2000 MLS playoff matchup, three ways: the season race carried on into the postseason, who beat their seeding, and the bracket.
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The same race these clubs ran all season, carried on through the postseason on one scale and on real dates.
Where each club finished the season against how far it went, ranked on record rather than seed.
Who played whom, round by round, which no line chart can say.
Kansas City Wizards won the 2000 title from a regular season record of 16-7-9. 8 teams reached the playoffs and the bracket ran 3 rounds. Every matchup below is taken from the MLS stats API except which two matches went to extra time, which the API does not record before 2011, written in from Wikipedia's MLS Cup Playoffs article for the season, and that two matches that ended level played extra time first, which the API does not record, written in from the league's rule that season, that a level playoff match went to sudden-death extra time, and the date of one match, which the API stamps with a placeholder that reads as the day before, written in from MLS's own Fact and Record Book, and how one series was settled, in sudden-death extra time after finishing level on points, a goal the API adds to the last match's score, written in from Wikipedia and the RSSSF; nothing on this page is estimated.
| Round | Won by | Result | Opponent | Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarterfinals | Kansas City Wizards | 2-0-1 in games | Colorado Rapids | September 16 to September 24, 2000 |
| Quarterfinals | Chicago Fire | 2-1 in games | New England Revolution | September 15 to September 22, 2000 |
| Quarterfinals | New York/New Jersey MetroStars | 2-0 in games | Dallas Burn | September 15 to September 20, 2000 |
| Quarterfinals | LA Galaxy | 2-0 in games | Tampa Bay Mutiny | September 14 to September 20, 2000 |
| Semifinals | Kansas City Wizards | 1-1-1 in games, won in sudden-death extra time | LA Galaxy | September 29 to October 6, 2000 |
| Semifinals | Chicago Fire | 2-1 in games | New York/New Jersey MetroStars | September 26 to October 6, 2000 |
| MLS Cup | Kansas City Wizards | 1-0 | Chicago Fire | October 15, 2000 |
The left column ranks this field by regular season record, not by seed number: seeding rules differ by era, so this site uses records everywhere instead. The right column groups clubs by the round they went out in, which is not the same as the number of rounds they won, because a bye carries a club further without it winning anything. The figure beside a name is places moved between the two columns, and part of it is only where a club sat inside its band. Nothing here is a prediction. The data notes carry the whole method, and a standings race and the playoffs that followed it says what each of the three views is for.
The races that filled this bracket: Supporters' Shield