Five of 10 MLS matches last weekend ended in a deadlock, which isn’t so bad when you consider four featured at least four goals, there was a stoppage-time equalizer and three other tying strikes came in the last 15 minutes, including Landon Donovan’s first since returning from retirement.
Draws, however, have come at much greater frequency this season than last year and at the highest rate since 2011.
Entering the final stretch of the regular season, 96 of 292 matches — or 32.9 percent — have split points. In 2015, the figure was 21.2 percent.
The high mark in recent years was 2011: 34.