The current strain is a new variation of an H1N1 virus, which is a mix of human and animal versions.

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The table below presents the teams with the ten highest likelihoods of winning the MLS Cup in all nine prior seasons that used some variation of the current format (this is a sorted view of this complete table in my last post on this topic).

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