MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 7

"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)



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)

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 Wk 7



No new sites this week, 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.

Week 7

Week 6

Week 5

Team

W7 Ave

W6 Ave

W5 Ave

Low

High

Var

1

1

2

Salt Lake 1.42

1.50

1.86

3

1

2

2

2

4

Kansas City 2.75

3.67

3.93 4

1

3

3

3

1

Dallas 3.08

3.83

1.79

5

1

4

4

5

8

Seattle 3.33 4.83 8.21 6

1

5

5

6

6

Los Angeles 5.58 5.33 6.71 7

2

5

6

4

7

Colorado 6.00

4.67

7.86 8

4

4

7

7

5

Columbus 6.50

5.58

5.14 8

4

4

8

8

3

Toronto 7.75

6.58

3.36 14

6

8

9

9

9

Vancouver 9.50

10.17

8.57

14

8

6

10

11

17

New England 11.25 11.42 15.71 15

9

6

11

10

11

Philadelphia 11.75

10.25

10.07

14

9

5

12

13

16

D.C. 12.08 13.25 15.57 16

8

8

13

12

10

Houston 12.58

12.00

9.07

18

9

9

14

17

12

New York 12.67 16.08 13.79 17

11

6

15

14

13

Chivas 14.92

13.83

13.93

18

11

7

16

15

15

Chicago 15.17

15.00

14.93 18

13

5

17

16

14

Portland 17.00

15.58

14.21 18

15

3

18

18

18

San Jose

17.25

17.33

17.00

18

13

5

19

19

19

Montreal 19.00

18.75

18.21

19

19

0



Biggest Changes

Largest Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

New York: +3



Fall

Colorado: -2

NYRB - 2.25 - Chv

SSFC - 2.25 - LAG

CF - 1.83 - PT

TFC - 1.75 - VWc

VWc - 1.75 - NER

SJE - 1.75 - MI 0 positions: Montreal

2 positions: Salt Lake

3 positions: Kansas City, Portland

4 positions: Dallas, Colorado, Columbus

5 positions: Seattle, L.A., Philadelphia, Chicago, S.J.

6 positions: Vancouver, N.E., N.Y.

7 positions: Chivas

8 positions: Toronto, D.C.

9 positions: Houston



Season Average Power Ranking

Pos

Team

W7 Ave W6 Ave W5 Ave W4 Ave W3 Ave

W2 Ave

W1 Ave

1

Salt Lake

2.03

2.14

2.38

2.51

2.63

1.95 1.50 2

Kansas City 4.28

4.53

4.90

5.14

5.59

5.62

4.50

3

Dallas 5.29

5.66

6.11

7.19

8.56

10.20

11.00

4

Seattle 5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 5.74 5.68 3.43 5

Toronto 6.14 5.88 5.81 6.43 6.37 8.25 11.57 6

Columbus 6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 8.80 10.11 10.21 7

Houston 6.82

5.86

4.79

3.72

2.85

3.24 5.00 8

Los Angeles 6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7.70 7.16 6.64 9

Vancouver 8.28 8.07 7.72 7.50 8.11 7.34 6.00 10

Colorado 9.00 9.50 10.45 11.10 11.13 12.14 12.07 11

Philadelphia 9.53

9.16

9.00

8.74

8.41 8.05 10.29 12

Portland 12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 8.09 5.97 4.21 13

New York 13.16 13.24 12.68 12.40 12.02 11.37 9.93 14

Chivas 13.36

13.10

12.82

12.54

12.61

12.25

13.43

15

New England 14.30

14.81

15.39

15.31

16.26

16.02

14.57

16

San Jose

15.35

15.03

14.47

13.83

12.98

12.50 13.07 17

Chicago 15.56

15.63

15.69

15.88

15.93 16.37 16.86 18

D.C. 16.63

17.38

18.05

18.68

18.63

18.59

18.64

19

Montreal

18.01

17.85

17.60

17.45

17.49

17.13 16.86





Houston's fall continues; 2nd in week 3 now down to 7th!

Largest gap: 2.66 points between Philly and Portland

Smallest gap: 0.12 between Houston and L.A.