Austin FC’s Expansion Draft is this evening, and for D.C. United, it’s a straightforward event: losing a player is bad, not losing one is good. Fortunately, the odds are in the Black-and-Red’s favor, as Austin can only take five players from a group of 16 teams, but it’s nonetheless a possibility that United ends up losing a player and getting just $50,000 in General Allocation money (far less than their market value) in return.
We talked about the protected list yesterday, and you can see the full draft rules here, but this piece is going to focus on the likelihood of United losing a player.