If you are the best player in Major League Soccer this year, then you will have a new 2017 Audi R8 coming your way.
That’s the new promotion Audi will be touting when the 2016 MLS season officially begins tomorrow with the defending champion Portland Timbers taking on their 2016 MLS Cup foes, the Columbus Crew, in a rematch. For the season, Audi is creating the Audi Player Index — a new statistical tool that will track position-specific player stats in near real-time across all MLS matches. A 30-second television commercial “Introducing the Audi Player Index” [below] debuts Sunday, March 6 on ESPN.
At the end of the season, Audi will honor the player with the highest Index score with the Audi Player Index Award. In order to be eligible, players must have appeared in at least 24 games, approximately 70 percent of regular season matches, and have played at least 1,530 minutes during the regular season. The winner will receive a one-year lease of the all-new 2017 Audi R8 at the 2016 MLS Cup.
