MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 13

"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) - (No ranking Week 13)

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 Weeks 9-13)

Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers)



ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com) - (No ranking Week 13)

Reddit/MLS (www.reddit.com/r/MLS) - (No ranking Weeks 10-13)

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

Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com)

Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net) - (No ranking Weeks 10-13)

Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)

UTN Sports (www.utnsports.com/category/soccer) - (No ranking Weeks 6-13)

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.

During the World Cup break; in lieu of the normal article I will be doing a series of articles evaluating each of the above rating sites. This will include every rating for all teams, overall average to date for that site per team, and my evaluation of the site's weekly ranking method. After the WC, I will look into dropping some of the sites that appear to have stopped (such as UTN & Northbank).

Weekly Power Ranking Averages

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

Week 13 Week 12 Week 11 Week 10 T eam

W13 Avg W12 Avg W11 Avg W10 Avg Low

High

Var

1

3

3

4

Seattle 1.00

2.56

2.63

3.60

1

1

0

2

4

4

5

Vancouver 2.88

4.67

4.75

5.00

6

2

4

3

1

2

3

New England 3.50

1.56

2.00

3.20

7

2

5

4

2

1

1

Salt Lake 3.63

2.00

1.38

1.20

11

2

9

5

5

12

9

Colorado 5.63

7.44 10.63 8.90 8

2

6

6

8

6

6

D.C. 5.75 8.00 7.75 7.60 9

4

5

7

9

8

12

Toronto 7.00 9.56 8.75 12.00 10

5

5

8

6

11

7

Los Angeles 7.88 6.44 10.50 8.10 10

3

7

9

5

5

2

Kansas City 8.38

5.56

4.88

2.20

16

7

9

10

13 15 13 San Jose 10.00 12.44 14.38 12.60 15

4

11

11

12 10 8 New York 12.25 12.33 10.25 8.80 17

10

7

12

15 18 16 Portland 12.50 14.67 16.88 15.50 17

9

8

13

10

14

14

Columbus 12.63

11.11

13.50

12.80

15

9

6

14

11

9

10

Dallas 13.75

11.44

9.88

8.90

18

11

7

15

13

7

11

Houston 14.13

12.44

8.50

11.80

18

12

6

16

18 17 18 Philadelphia 16.13 17.89 16.75 17.50 18

13

5

16

16

13

15 Chicago 16.13

15.44

13.13

15.50

19

12

7

18

19 19 19 Montreal 17.38 18.78 18.50 18.60 19

10

9

19

17

16

17

Chivas 18.88

15.78

15.13

16.30

19

15

4







Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

San Jose : +3

Portland: +3



Fall

Kansas City : -4

Columbus : -3

Dallas: -3

La rgest

San Jose - 2.25 - New York

Salt Lake - 2.00 - Colorado

Houston - 2.00 - Philadelphia/Chicago



Smallest

Philadelphia - 0.00 - Chicago

Colorado - 0.12 - D.C.

New England - 0.13 - Salt Lake

Portland - 0.13 - Columbus

0 positions: Seattle

4 positions: Vancouver, Chivas

5 positions: New England, D.C., Toronto, Philadelphia

6 positions: Colorado, Columbus, Houston

7 positions: L.A., New York, Dallas, Chicago

8 positions: Portland

9 positions: Salt Lake, Kansas City, Montreal

11 positions: San Jose





Season Average Power Ranking



Pos

T eam

W13 Avg W12 Avg W11 Avg W10 Avg W9 Avg W8 Avg W7 Avg W6 Avg W5 Avg W4 Avg 1

Salt Lake

2.05

1.92

1.92

1.97

2.05

2.05 2.03

2.14

2.38

2.51

2

Seattle 4.10

4.36 4.52 4.71 4.84 5.32 5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 3

Kansas City 4.48

4.15

4.03

3.94

4.13

4.28 4.28

4.53

4.90

5.14

4

Vancouver 6.92

7.26 7.50 7.77 8.08 8.20 8.28 8.07 7.72 7.50 5

Dallas 7.07

6.52

6.07

5.69

5.33

5.25 5.29

5.66

6.11

7.19

6

Los Angeles 7.52

7.49

7.58

7.28

7.20 6.97 6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7

Toronto 7.73

7.79

7.63

7.51

7.01

6.43

6.14

5.88

5.81

6.43

8

Columbus 8.49

8.14

7.87

7.30

6.70

6.42 6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 9

Colorado 8.61

8.86

8.99

8.84

8.81

9.11

9.00

9.50

10.45

11.10

10

Houston 9.31

8.91

8.59

8.63

8.24

7.80 6.82

5.86

4.79

3.72

11

New England 9.70

10.22

11.01

11.92

12.88

13.76

14.30

14.81

15.39

15.31

12

New York 11.67

11.62

11.56

11.64

12.01

12.67

13.16

13.24

12.68

12.40

13

Philadelphia 12.69

12.41

11.91

11.42

10.75

10.14 9.53

9.16

9.00

8.74

14

D.C. 12.76

13.34

13.83

14.44

15.19

15.68

16.63

17.38

18.05

18.68

15

Portland 13.64

13.74

13.65

13.34

13.09

12.92 12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 16 San Jose 14.35

14.72 14.92 14.98 15.24 15.24 15.35 15.03 14.47 13.83 17

Chivas 15.04

14.72

14.62

14.58

14.38

13.86 13.36

13.10

12.82

12.54

18

Chicago 15.55

15.51

15.51

15.75

15.78

15.55 15.56

15.63

15.69

15.88

19

Montreal

17.90

17.95

17.87

17.81

17.72

17.82

18.01

17.85

17.60

17.45





Largest gaps:

2.44 points between Kansas City and Vancouver

2.35 points between Chicago and Montreal

2.05 points between Salt Lake and Seattle



Smallest gaps:

0.07 points between Philadelphia and D.C.



0.12 points between Columbus and Colorado

0.15 points between Vancouver and Dallas





Team High/Low

Best and worst placement for each team

T eam

Week ly

High Weekly

Low

Season

High

Season

Low

Chicago Fire

13

18

16

18

Chivas USA

12

19

13

17

Colorado Rapids

4

14

9

13

Columbus Crew

2

14

5

11

D.C. United

6

19

14

19

FC Dallas

1

14

3

11

Houston Dynamo

1

15

2

10

LA Galaxy

5

11

5

9

Montreal Impact

17

19

17

19

New England Revolution

1

18

11

17

New York Red Bulls

7

17

8

14

Philadelphia Union

3

18

8

13

Portland Timbers

3

18

4

15

Real Salt Lake

1

4

1

1

San Jose Earthquakes

10

18

14

17

Seattle Sounders

1

9

2

6

Sporting Kansas City

2

9

2

3

Toronto FC

2

12

4

12

Vancouver Whitecaps

4

11

4

9



In the weekly averages 5 teams have been ranked 1st (Dallas, Houston, New England, Salt Lake, Seattle), and 3 teams have placed last (Chivas, D.C., Montreal).

In the season averages only 1 team has been ranked 1st (Salt Lake), and 2 teams last (D.C., Montreal).



