

MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 24



"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 match-up. 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) - (No ranking Week 22-24) Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com) - (No ranking Week 23-24)

Deseret News (www.deseretnews.com) - (No ranking Week 13-24) ESPN (espn.go.com/sports/soccer/mls) Fansided-MLS Multiplex (fansided.com/category/soccer/mls/mls-multiplex) Major League Soccer (www.mlssoccer.com) Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers) ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com) Seattle Times Blog (blogs.seattletimes.com/soundersfc) Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com) Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net) - (No ranking Week 21-24) Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)



Culled 4 sites from the listings since they have been inactive since the World Cup break or before, Deseret News may make it 5 next week.

Dead Lists

Black & Red United (www.blackandredunited.com) - No Power Rank since 6/4/14

Northbank-RSL (www.northbankrsl.com) - No Power Rank since 5/1/14

Reddit/MLS (www.reddit.com/r/MLS) - No Power Rank since 5/8/14

UTN Sports (www.utnsports.com/category/soccer) - No Power Rank since 4/2/14

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Weekly Power Ranking Averages

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

Week 24 Week 23 Week 22 Week 21 Week 20 T eam

W24 Avg W23 Avg W22 Avg W21 Avg W20 Avg Low

High

Range

1

3

5

6

5

Dallas 1.17

3.50

5.29

6.40

6.57

3

1

2

2

6

6

3

3

D.C. 2.83

5.33

6.29

3.20

3.00

4

1

3

3

4

2

4

2

Seattle 3.00

4.00

2.26

4.00

1.17

5

1

4

4

5

1

1

4

Los Angeles 3.50

5.17

1.86

1.60

4.43

5

2

3

5

2

4

5

6

Salt Lake 4.83

1.67

3.43

5.20

6.71

9

4

5

6

1

3

2

1

Kansas City 6.00

1.50

3.00

1.80

1.57

10

4

6

7

10

11

8

11

New York 8.00

10.33

10.71

8.80

11.29

11

7

4

8

11

14

13

11

Columbus 8.33

10.50

13.57

11.80

11.29

10

4

6

9

8

8

7

8

Toronto 8.50

7.67

7.43

7.00

8.14

15

7

8

10

12

10

11

13

Philadelphia 9.33

11.33

10.14

11.20

11.71

12

6

6

11

7

7

9

9

Vancouver 10.83

7.50

7.29

9.40

8.57

12

9

3

12

9

9

12

10

Portland 11.50

9.17

10.00

11.4

9.86

12

10

2

13

16

16

18

17

New England 13.83

16.33

16.57

17.20

16.71

17

8

9

14

15

12

14

14

San Jose 14.50

14.67

11.71

13.40

14.14

15

14

1

15

13

13

9

7

Colorado 15.33

14.00

12.14

9.40

7.57

18

13

5

16

14

18

15

18

Houston 15.67

14.17

17.14

15.60

17.43

18

13

5

17

17

15

17

16

Chicago 16.17

16.83

15.14

16.60

16.00

18

13

5

18

18

16

16

15

Chivas 17.67

17.17

16.57

16.00

14.29

19

15

4

19

19

19

19

19

Montreal 19.00

18.83

19.00

19.00

18.86

19

16

3







Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

D.C.: +4

New York: +3



Fall

Kansas City: -5

Vancouver: -4

La rgest

Portland - 2.33 - New England

Kansas City - 2.00 - New York



Smallest

D.C. - 0.17 - Seattle

Columbus - 0.17 - Toronto

1 position: S.J.

2 positions: Dallas, Portland

3 positions: D.C., L.A., Vancouver, Montreal

4 positions: Seattle, N.Y., Chivas

5 positions: S.L., Colorado, Houston, Chicago

6 positions: K.C., Columbus, Philadelphia

8 positions: Toronto

9 positions: N.E.





Season Average Power Ranking

One change on the table for Week 24, Dallas and Toronto exchange places.





W24 W23 W22 W21 W20 W19 W18 T eam

W24 Avg W23 Avg W22 Avg W21 Avg W20 Avg W19 Avg W18 Avg W17 Avg 1

1

1

1

1

1

2

Seattle 3.29

3.31

3.27

3.32

3.29

3.37 3.50

3.65

2

2

2

2

2

2

1

Salt Lake

3.78

3.73

3.82

3.84

3.78

3.62

3.37

3.09

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Kansas City 3.96

3.87

3.97

4.02

4.13

4.27

4.36

4.35

4

4

4

5

6

6

6

Los Angeles 6.56

6.70

6.76

7.00

7.27

7.42

7.50

7.55

5

5

5

4

4

4

4

Vancouver 7.17

7.01

6.99

6.98

6.85

6.76

6.76

6.73

6

7

7

7

7

7

7

Dallas 7.23

7.49

7.67

7.79

7.86

7.92

8.01

7.99

7

6

6

6

5

5

5

Toronto 7.27

7.22

7.20

7.19

7.20

7.15

7.23

7.38

8

8

8

8

8

8

8

Colorado 9.20

8.93

8.70

8.53

8.49

8.54

8.52

8.61

9

9

9

9

11

11

12

D.C. 9.21

9.49

9.67

9.84

10.17

10.54

11.00

11.50

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Columbus 10.22

10.30

10.29

10.14

10.10

9.99

9.83

9.53

11

11

11

12

12

12

11

New York 10.58

10.70

10.71

10.71

10.81

10.78

10.82

10.91

12

12

12

11

9

9

9

New England 11.08

10.96

10.72

10.44

10.05

9.75

9.44

9.23

13

13

13

14

14

14

14

Portland 12.01

12.03

12.16

12.26

12.30

12.43

12.48

12.42

14

14

14

13

13

13

13

Houston 12.42

12.28

12.20

11.96

11.78

11.48

11.14

10.72

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

Philadelphia 12.44

12.58

12.63

12.75

12.83

12.89

12.92

12.84

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

San Jose 14.45

14.45

14.44

14.57

14.63

14.65

14.54

14.33

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

Chivas 15.36

15.26

15.17

15.10

15.06

15.10

15.30

15.54

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

Chicago 15.54

15.51

15.45

15.47

15.41

15.38

15.43

15.52

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

Montreal

17.90

17.85

17.81

17.75

17.69

17.63

17.57

17.56





Team High / Low

Best and worst placement for each team; added a few extra comparisons with Weekly and Season High / Low averages; and the Final Season Averages for 2012 & 2013.