Designated Players are at the heart of MLS's starpower. These players aren't restricted by salary caps and they are often the best players on their teams – the combination of quality and prestige these guys bring to their clubs is worth a lot of money. But, everything doesn't always go as planned, and some DPs have a better go of it than others.

As a reminder, there are some notable absences on the official Designated Player list because some clubs may have structured their contracts using one of the league's semi-new mechanisms called Target Allocation Money, or TAM. That means players like Bradley Wright-Phillips from the New York Red Bulls, who won the Golden Boot this year, or Fanendo Adi from the Portland Timbers and Dom Dwyer from Sporting Kansas City, their team's best scorers, aren't DPs.

But for the players who are DPs, we looked at each one across the league (who was a Designated Player as of this fall), and we ranked them based on their quality and the impact they've had both on and off the field.