MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 9

"If two teams played tomorrow, given their current injury concerns, form, and other considerations, who is likely to win on a neutral field? This list is designed to tell you who we feel is most likely to win that matchup. All things being equal, who is the best team going forward, based on what we know now?" -Richard Farley, NBC Sports ProSoccerTalk. 3/11/14

Sites Used:

Allvoices (www.allvoices.com/users/zacwassink)

Black & Red United (www.blackandredunited.com)

Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com)

Deseret News (www.deseretnews.com) - New bi-weekly (No ranking Week 9)



ESPN (espn.go.com/sports/soccer/mls)

Fansided-MLS Multiplex (fansided.com/category/soccer/mls/mls-multiplex)

Major League Soccer (www.mlssoccer.com)

Northbank-RSL (www.northbankrsl.com) - (No ranking Week 9)

Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers)



ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com)

Reddit/MLS (www.reddit.com/r/MLS)



Seattle Times Blog (blogs.seattletimes.com/soundersfc)

Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com)

Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net)



Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)

UTN Sports (www.utnsports.com/category/soccer) - (No ranking Week 9)

One new site this week; Deseret News publishes rankings bi-weekly. I have added their past rankings to the calculations; also Dallas News published their list after I had, so changes to averages and order are shown below.

If you know of a Power Ranking site that I have not included, please send it to me via this site or on reddit.com/r/MLS and I will consider using it.

Weekly Power Ranking Averages

Using the "Olympic" method of dropping the highest / lowest scores, and averaging the rest.

Numbers in parenthesis were averages before adding the new site's rankings.

Week 9

Week 8

Week 7

Week 6

T eam

W9 Ave

W8 Ave

W7 Ave

W6 Ave

Low

High

Var

1

1

4

5

Seattle 1.00

1.00 (1.00)

3.33 4.83 1

1

0

2

2

1

1

Salt Lake 2.09

2.15 (2.18)

1.42

1.50

4

2

2

3

3

2

2

Kansas City 3.00

4.23 (4.00)

2.75

3.67

3

2

1

4

12 10 11 New England 5.82

9.85 (10.09) 11.25 11.42 11

2

9

5

4

3

3

Dallas 6.00

4.54 (4.45)

3.08

3.83

13

4

9

6

10

6

4

Colorado 6.45

9.38 (9.82) 6.00 4.67 10

4

6

7

11

14

17

New York 6.73

9.46 (9.18) 12.67 16.08 11

4

7

8

7

9

9

Vancouver 7.09

8.15 (8.73) 9.50 10.17 11

4

7

9

6

7

7

Columbus 8.91

5.92 (5.73) 6.50 5.58 13

6

7

10

5

5

6

Los Angeles 9.09

5.77 (5.27)

5.58 5.33 12

4

8

11

9

12

13

D.C. 11.27

9.31 (9.27) 12.08 13.25 15

8

7

12

8

8

8

Toronto 11.73

8.54 (8.45)

7.75 6.58 17

10

7

13

13

13

12

Houston 11.82

14.46 (14.18)

12.58 12.00 14

8

6

14

18

17

16

Portland 14.45

17.77 (17.64) 17.00 15.58 18

10

8

15

14

18

18

San Jose 15.27

14.54 (14.45) 17.25 17.33 18

13

5

16

15

11

10

Philadelphia 15.64

14.62 (14.73)

11.75

10.25

18

14

4

17

17

19

19

Montreal 16.91

16.54 (16.91) 19.00 18.75 18

13

5

18

16

16

15

Chicago 17.64

16.00 (15.82) 15.17 15.00 19

16

3

19

18

15

14

Chivas 18.55

17.77 (18.00)

14.92

13.83

19

16

3







Biggest Changes

Largest Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

New England: +8

Colorado: +4

New York: +4

Portland: +4



Fall

Los Angeles: -5

Toronto: -4

Kansas City - 2.82 - New England Houston - 2.63 - Portland Los Angeles - 2.18 - D.C. United 0 position: Seattle

1 position: Kansas City

2 positions: Salt Lake

3 positions: Chicago, Chivas

4 positions: Philadelphia

5 positions: San Jose, Montreal

6 positions: Colorado, Houston

7 positions: New York, Vancouver, Columbus, D.C., Toronto

8 positions: Los Angeles, Portland

9 positions: New England, Dallas





Season Average Power Ranking



Pos

T eam

W9 Ave W8 Ave W7 Ave W6 Ave W5 Ave W4 Ave W3 Ave

W2 Ave

W1 Ave

1

Salt Lake

2.05

2.05 (2.05) 2.03

2.14

2.38

2.51

2.63

1.95 1.50 2

Kansas City 4.13

4.28 (4.24) 4.28

4.53

4.90

5.14

5.59

5.62

4.50

3

Seattle 4.84

5.32 (5.33) 5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 5.74 5.68 3.43 4

Dallas 5.33

5.25 (5.19) 5.29

5.66

6.11

7.19

8.56

10.20

11.00

5

Columbus 6.70

6.42 (6.44) 6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 8.80 10.11 10.21 6

Toronto 7.01

6.43 (6.43) 6.14 5.88 5.81 6.43 6.37 8.25 11.57 7

Los Angeles 7.20

6.97 (6.73) 6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7.70 7.16 6.64 8

Vancouver 8.08

8.20 (8.33) 8.28 8.07 7.72 7.50 8.11 7.34 6.00 9

Houston 8.24

7.80 (7.74) 6.82

5.86

4.79

3.72

2.85

3.24 5.00 10

Colorado 8.81

9.11 (9.10) 9.00 9.50 10.45 11.10 11.13 12.14 12.07 11

Philadelphia 10.75

10.14 (10.18) 9.53

9.16

9.00

8.74

8.41 8.05 10.29 12

New York 12.01

12.67 (12.66) 13.16 13.24 12.68 12.40 12.02 11.37 9.93 13

New England 12.88

13.76 (13.77) 14.30 14.81 15.39 15.31 16.26 16.02 14.57 14

Portland 13.09

12.92 (12.88) 12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 8.09 5.97 4.21 15

Chivas 14.38

13.86 (13.94) 13.36

13.10

12.82

12.54

12.61

12.25

13.43

16

D.C. 15.19

15.68 (15.71) 16.63 17.38 18.05 18.68 18.63 18.59 18.64 17

San Jose

15.24

15.24 (15.24) 15.35

15.03

14.47

13.83

12.98

12.50 13.07 18

Chicago 15.78

15.55 (15.59) 15.56

15.63

15.69

15.88

15.93 16.37 16.86 19

Montreal

17.72

17.82 (17.87)

18.01

17.85

17.60

17.45

17.49

17.13 16.86





Largest gap: 2.08 points between Salt Lake and Kansas City

Smallest gap: 0.05 between D.C. and San Jose



Team High/Low

Best and worst placement for each team