You ever have a shower thought that turns into a tweet that turns into an article? To be fair, I hadn’t either until two weeks ago when I started an extremely not-time-efficient stat dive in an attempt to finally answer just how much depth the Sounders used this year.
The answer, not surprisingly, was quite a lot. The method I used was to take each team and add up the total number of minutes played by players who rank outside of the top 14 for total minutes on that team over the course of a season.