MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 10

"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 10)



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 10)

Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers)



ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com)

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

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 10)

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 10 Week 9

Week 8

Week 7

T eam

W10 Ave W9 Ave

W8 Ave

W7 Ave

Low

High

Var

1

2

2

1

Salt Lake 1.20

2.09 2.15

1.42 3

1

2

2

3

3

2

Kansas City 2.20

3.00 4.23

2.75 5

1

4

3

4

12

10

New England 3.20

5.82 9.85 11.25 6

1

5

4

1

1

4

Seattle 3.60

1.00

1.00

3.33 9

2

7

5

8

7

9

Vancouver 5.00

7.09 8.15

9.50 6

3

3

6

11

9

12

D.C. 7.60

11.27 9.31

12.08 10

4

6

7

10

5

5

Los Angeles 8.10

9.09 5.77 5.58 14

5

9

8

7

11

14

New York 8.80

6.73 9.46 12.67 12

6

6

9 (tie)

5

4

3

Dallas 8.90

6.00

4.54

3.08

18

6

12

9 (tie)

6

10

6

Colorado 8.90

6.45

9.38

6.00 16

5

11

11

13

13

13

Houston 11.80

11.82 14.46 12.58 14

7

7

12

12

8

8

Toronto 12.00

11.73 8.54

7.75 15

9

6

13

15

14

18

San Jose 12.60

15.27 14.54 17.25 16

8

8

14

9

6

7

Columbus 12.80

8.91

5.92

6.50 19

9

10

15 (tie)

18

16

16

Chicago 15.50

17.64 16.00 15.17 18

11

7

15 (tie)

14

18

17

Portland 15.50

14.45 17.77

17.00 19

6

13

17

19

18

15

Chivas 16.30

18.55 17.77 14.92 18

7

11

18

16

15

11

Philadelphia 17.50

15.64

14.62

11.75

19

15

4

19

17

17

19

Montreal 18.60

16.91

16.54 19.00 19

17

2







Biggest Changes

Largest Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

D.C. : +5

Vancouver : +3

Los Angeles: +3



Fall

Dallas : -4

Columbus: -5

Dallas/Colorado - 2.90 - Houston

Columbus - 2.70 - Chicago/Portland

Vancouver - 2.60 - D.C.

2 positions: Salt Lake, Montreal

3 positions: Vancouver

4 positions: Kansas City, Philadelphia

5 positions: New England

6 positions: D.C., New York, Toronto

7 positions: Seattle, Houston, Chicago

8 positions: San Jose

9 positions: Los Angeles,

10+ positions: Dallas, Colorado, Columbus, Portland, Chivas





Season Average Power Ranking



Pos

T eam

W10 Ave W9 Ave W8 Ave W7 Ave W6 Ave W5 Ave W4 Ave W3 Ave

W2 Ave

W1 Ave

1

Salt Lake

1.97

2.05

2.05 2.03

2.14

2.38

2.51

2.63

1.95 1.50 2

Kansas City 3.94

4.13

4.28 4.28

4.53

4.90

5.14

5.59

5.62

4.50

3

Seattle 4.71

4.84

5.32 5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 5.74 5.68 3.43 4

Dallas 5.69

5.33

5.25 5.29

5.66

6.11

7.19

8.56

10.20

11.00

5

Los Angeles 7.29

7.20 6.97 6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7.70 7.16 6.64 6

Columbus 7.31

6.70

6.42 6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 8.80 10.11 10.21 7

Toronto 7.51

7.01

6.43 6.14 5.88 5.81 6.43 6.37 8.25 11.57 8

Vancouver 7.77

8.08

8.20 8.28 8.07 7.72 7.50 8.11 7.34 6.00 9

Houston 8.60

8.24

7.80 6.82

5.86

4.79

3.72

2.85

3.24 5.00 10

Colorado 8.82

8.81

9.11 9.00 9.50 10.45 11.10 11.13 12.14 12.07 11

Philadelphia 11.43

10.75

10.14 9.53

9.16

9.00

8.74

8.41 8.05 10.29 12

New York 11.69

12.01

12.67 13.16 13.24 12.68 12.40 12.02 11.37 9.93 13

New England 11.91

12.88

13.76 14.30 14.81 15.39 15.31 16.26 16.02 14.57 14

Portland 13.33

13.09

12.92 12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 8.09 5.97 4.21 15

D.C. 14.43

15.19 15.68 16.63 17.38 18.05 18.68 18.63 18.59 18.64 16

Chivas 14.57

14.38

13.86 13.36

13.10

12.82

12.54

12.61

12.25

13.43

17

San Jose

14.98

15.24

15.24 15.35

15.03

14.47

13.83

12.98

12.50 13.07 18

Chicago 15.75

15.78

15.55 15.56

15.63

15.69

15.88

15.93 16.37 16.86 19

Montreal

17.81

17.72

17.82

18.01

17.85

17.60

17.45

17.49

17.13 16.86





Largest gap: 2.06 points between Chicago and Montreal

Smallest gap: 0.02 between L.A. and Columbus



Team High/Low

Best and worst placement for each team