

MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 32



"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:

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)

Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)

Dead Lists

Allvoices (www.allvoices.com/users/zacwassink) - No Power Rank since 8/4/14

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

Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com) - No Power Rank since 8/13/14

Deseret News (www.deseretnews.com) - No Power Rank since 5/29/14

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

Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net) - No Power Rank since 7/30/14

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



Weekly Power Ranking Averages

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

Wk 32 Wk 31 Wk 30 Wk 29 Wk 28 T eam

W32 Avg W31 Avg W30 Avg W29 Avg W28 Avg Low

High

Range

1

1

1

1

1

Los Angeles 1.67

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.17

9

1

8

2

2

2

2

2

Seattle 2.33

3.17

2.00

2.33

2.50

8

1

7

3

3

4

3

4

D.C. 3.00

3.67

4.17

4.33

5.17

5

2

3

4

4

3

6

7

New England 3.67

4.17

3.83 5.50

7.00

5

2

3

5

5

5

3

5

Dallas 4.50

4.33

5.50

4.33

5.83

6

1

5

6

6

6

3

3

Salt Lake 6.33

6.00

6.33

4.33

3.17

11

5

6

7

8

8

7

11

Columbus 7.17 8.00

8.00

7.33

9.67

8

5

3

8

9

9

13

14

Vancouver 8.17

8.17

8.83

11.83

13.83

9

4

5

9

7

7

8

6

New York 9.00

6.50

6.67

8.17

6.17

11

5

6

10

10

12

10

10

Kansas City 10.33

10.00

11.50

11.17

9.17

12

8

4

11

11

10

10

9

Portland 10.50

10.50

10.00

11.17

8.50

11

5

6

12

12

11

9

8

Philadelphia 11.83

12.33

11.33

10.83

8.33

12

7

5

13

13

14

14

12

Houston 13.17

13.33

13.17

12.33

12.83

15

13

2

14

14

13

12

13

Toronto 14.67

13.83

12.67

11.33

13.50

16

13

3

15

15

16

16

16

Montreal 15.17

15.33

17.00

16.50

16.17

18

13

5

16

16

15

15

15

Chicago 15.50

15.83

15.33

15.50

14.83

18

14

4

17

17

18

19

19

Chivas 16.67

16.67

17.83

19.00

19.00

17

15

2

18

18

16

16

17

San Jose 17.83

18.00

17.00

16.50

16.50

19

16

3

19

19

19

18

18

Colorado 19.00

19.00

18.17

17.50

17.50

19

18

1







Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Range

Rise

Columbus: +1

Vancouver: +1



Fall

New York: -2

La rgest

FCD - 1.83 - RSL

HOU - 1.50 - TOR



Smallest

SKC - 0.17 - POR

MON - 0.33 - CHI

1 position: COL

2 positions: HOU, CHV

3 positions: DCU, NER, COL, TOR, SJE

4 positions: SKC, CHI

5 positions: FCD, VAN, PHI, MON

6 positions: RSL, NYRB, POR

7 positions: SEA

8 positions: LAG





Season Average Power Ranking

Three changes on the table for Week 32. Los Angeles reaches it's final position at 3th after passing Kansas City. The second and third changes are New York and New England exchanging places. Since the points between NY, CLB and NER remain close that may change again in the final week. The top 8 and bottom 12 is set as no teams can make up the point difference with one game remaining.





W32 W31 W30 W29 W28 W27 T eam

W32 Avg W31 Avg W30 Avg W29 Avg W28 Avg W27 Avg 1

1

1

1

1

1

Seattle 3.01

3.03

3.03

3.06

3.09

3.11

2

2

2

2

2

2

Salt Lake

4.07

4.00

3.93

3.85

3.83

3.86

3

4

4

4

4

4

Los Angeles 5.25

5.37

5.51

5.67

5.83

6.01

4

3

3

3

3

3

Kansas City 5.34

5.18

5.02

4.80

4.57

4.40

5

5

5

5

5

5

Dallas

6.56

6.63

6.70

6.74

6.83

6.87

6

6

7

8

8

8

D.C. 7.89

8.05

8.19

8.33

8.47

8.60

7

7

6

6

6

6

Vancouver 8.16

8.16

8.16

8.14

8.01

7.79

8

8

8

7

7

7

Toronto 8.76

8.57

8.40

8.25

8.14

7.94

9

11

11

11

12

12

New England 9.78

9.98

10.17

10.39

10.57

10.70

10

10

9

9

9

10

Columbus 9.86

9.95

10.01

10.08

10.18

10.20

11

9

10

10

10

11

New York 9.91

9.93

10.05

10.17

10.24

10.39

12

12

12

12

11

9

Colorado 11.29

11.04

10.77

10.52

10.27

10.00

13

13

13

13

13

13

Portland 11.39

11.42

11.45

11.50

11.51

11.62

14

14

14

14

14

14

Philadelphia 11.81

11.81

11.80

11.81

11.85

11.98

15

15

15

15

15

15

Houston 12.57

12.55

12.52

12.50

12.51

12.50

16

16

16

16

16

16

San Jose 14.98

14.89

14.78

14.71

14.64

14.57

17

17

17

17

17

17

Chicago 15.51

15.51

15.50

15.50

15.50

15.53

18

18

18

18

18

18

Chivas 16.09

16.07

16.05

15.99

15.88

15.76

19

19

19

19

19

19

Montreal

17.57

17.65

17.72

17.75

17.79

17.85





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.