"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 6



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 6

Week 5

Week 4

Team

W6 Ave

W5 Ave

W4 Ave

Low

High

1

2

1

Salt Lake 1.50

1.86

2.13 5

1

2

4

4

Kansas City 3.67

3.93 3.80 8

1

3

1

3

Dallas 3.83

1.79

3.07 7

1

4

7

11

Colorado 4.67

7.86 11.00 9

1

5

8

9

Seattle 4.83

8.21 8.93 8

2

6

6

8

Los Angeles 5.33

6.71 8.80 9

2

7

5

2

Columbus 5.58

5.14 2.27 9

1

8

3

7

Toronto 6.58

3.36 6.60 10

3

9

9

5 Vancouver 10.17

8.57

5.67 14

9

10

11

10

Philadelphia 10.25

10.07

9.73 13

8

11

17

13

New England 11.42

15.71

12.47 16

10

12

10

6

Houston 12.00

9.07

6.33 18

9

13

16

19

D.C. 13.25

15.57 18.80 17

7

14

13

12

Chivas 13.83

13.93

12.33 16

11

15

15

16

Chicago 15.00

14.93 15.73 18

11

16

14

15

Portland 15.58

14.21 14.80 18

12

17

12

14

New York 16.08

13.79 13.53 19

12

18

18

17 San Jose

17.33

17.00

16.40 19

13

19

19

18 Montreal 18.75

18.21

17.33 19

16



High / Low Variance

Biggest Rise / Fall

Largest Point Gaps 3 positions: MI

4 positions: RSL

5 positions: VWc, PU, CvU

6 positions: FCD, SSFC, NER, PT, SJE

7 positions: SKC, LAG, TFC, CF, NYRB

8 positions: CR, CC

9 positions: HD

10 positions:DCU New England: +6

Seattle, D.C.: +3

Toronto, New York: -5

TFC - 3.59 - VWc

RSL - 2.17 - SKC

SJE - 1.42 - MI







Season Average Power Ranking

Pos

Team

W6 Ave W5 Ave W4 Ave W3 Ave

W2 Ave

W1 Ave

1

Salt Lake

2.14

2.38

2.51

2.63

1.95 1.50 2

Kansas City 4.53

4.90

5.14

5.59

5.62

4.50

3

Dallas 5.66

6.11

7.19

8.56

10.20

11.00

4

Houston 5.86

4.79

3.72

2.85

3.24 5.00 5 Toronto 5.88

5.81

6.43

6.37 8.25 11.57 6

Seattle 6.39

6.87

6.54

5.74

5.68

3.43

7

Columbus 6.55

6.76

7.17

8.80 10.11 10.21 8

Los Angeles 7.17

7.72

7.98

7.70

7.16

6.64

9

Vancouver 8.07

7.72

7.50

8.11 7.34 6.00 10

Philadelphia 9.16

9.00

8.74

8.41 8.05 10.29 11

Colorado 9.50

10.45

11.10 11.13 12.14 12.07 12

Portland 11.39

10.66

9.77

8.09

5.97 4.21 13

Chivas 13.10

12.82

12.54

12.61

12.25

13.43

14

New York

13.24

12.68

12.40

12.02

11.37 9.93 15

New England 14.81

15.39

15.31

16.26

16.02

14.57

16

San Jose

15.03

14.47

13.83

12.98

12.50 13.07 17

Chicago 15.63

15.69

15.88

15.93 16.37 16.86 18

D.C. 17.38

18.05

18.68

18.63

18.59

18.64

19

Montreal

17.85

17.60

17.45

17.49

17.13 16.86





D.C. rises from the bottom for the first time since last season!

Largest gap: 2.39 points between RSL and SKC

Smallest gap: 0.02 between Houston and Toronto



Long Term Trends

Overall rise / loss over 4 weeks