

MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 25



"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 22-25)

Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com) - (No ranking Week 23-25)



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 21-25)

Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)

Dead Lists

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

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

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 25 Wk 24 Wk 23 Wk 22 Wk 21 T eam

W25 Avg W24 Avg W23 Avg W22 Avg W21 Avg Low

High

Range

1

4

5

1

1

Los Angeles 1.50

3.50

5.17

1.86

1.60

3

1

2

2

3

4

2

4

Seattle 2.17

3.00

4.00

2.26

4.00

5

1

4

3

2

6

6

3

D.C. 3.33

2.83

5.33

6.29

3.20

8

1

7

4

1

3

5

6

Dallas 3.50

1.17

3.50

5.29

6.40

9

1

8

5

5

2

4

5

Salt Lake 4.83

4.83

1.67

3.43

5.20

7

4

3

6

6

1

3

2

Kansas City 6.67

6.00

1.50

3.00

1.80

18

6

12

7

12

9

9

12

Portland 7.50

11.50

9.17

10.00

11.40

9

3

6

8

10

12

10

11

Philadelphia 9.00

9.33

11.33

10.14

11.20

13

6

7

9

8

11

14

13

Columbus 9.83

8.33

10.50

13.57

11.80

11

7

4

9

13

16

16

18

New England 9.83

13.83

16.33

16.57

17.20

16

5

11

11

7

10

11

8

New York 10.00

8.00

10.33

10.71

8.80

13

7

6

12

9

8

8

7

Toronto 11.83

8.50

7.67

7.43

7.00

18

9

9

13

11

7

7

9

Vancouver 12.83

10.83

7.50

7.29

9.40

15

8

7

14

16

14

18

15

Houston 13.67

15.67

14.17

17.14

15.60

17

12

5

15

17

17

15

17

Chicago 15.00

16.17

16.83

15.14

16.60

16

4

12

16

14

15

12

14

San Jose 15.67

14.50

14.67

11.71

13.40

18

13

5

17

15

13

13

9

Colorado 16.00

15.33

14.00

12.14

9.40

18

13

5

18

19

19

19

19

Montreal 17.33

19.00

18.83

19.00

19.00

18

12

6

19

18

18

16

16

Chivas 19.00

17.67

17.17

16.57

16.00

19

19

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Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Range

Rise

Portland: +5

New England: +4

Los Angeles: +3



Fall

New York: -4

Dallas: -3

Toronto: -3

La rgest

Salt Lake - 1.84 - Kansas City

New York - 1.83 - Toronto



Smallest

Columbus - 0.00 - New England

New England - 0.17 - New York

D.C. - 0.17 - Dallas



0 position: Chivas

2 positions: L.A.

3 positions: Salt Lake

4 positions: Seattle, Columbus

5 positions: Houston, S.J., Colorado

6 positions: Portland, N.Y., Montreal

7 positions: D.C., Philadelphia, Vancouver

8 positions: Dallas

9+ positions: K.C., N.E., Toronto, Chicago





Season Average Power Ranking

Three changes on the table for Week 25:

Dallas and Vancouver exchange places

D.C. bumps both Columbus and Colorado.

Philadelphia leapfrogs Houston.



W25 W24 W23 W22 W21 W20 W19 T eam

W25 Avg W24 Avg W23 Avg W22 Avg W21 Avg W20 Avg W19 Avg 1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Seattle 3.25

3.29

3.31

3.27

3.32

3.29

3.37 2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Salt Lake

3.82

3.78

3.73

3.82

3.84

3.78

3.62

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Kansas City 4.06

3.96

3.87

3.97

4.02

4.13

4.27

4

4

4

4

5

6

6

Los Angeles 6.36

6.56

6.70

6.76

7.00

7.27

7.42

5

6

7

7

7

7

7

Dallas

7.08

7.23

7.49

7.67

7.79

7.86

7.92

6

5

5

5

4

4

4

Vancouver 7.40

7.17

7.01

6.99

6.98

6.85

6.76

7

7

6

6

6

5

5

Toronto 7.46

7.27

7.22

7.20

7.19

7.20

7.15

8

9

9

9

9

11

11

D.C.

8.97

9.21

9.49

9.67

9.84

10.17

10.54

9

8

8

8

8

8

8

Colorado 9.47

9.20

8.93

8.70

8.53

8.49

8.54

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Columbus 10.20

10.22

10.30

10.29

10.14

10.10

9.99

11

11

11

11

12

12

12

New York 10.56

10.58

10.70

10.71

10.71

10.81

10.78

12

12

12

12

11

9

9

New England 11.03

11.08

10.96

10.72

10.44

10.05

9.75

13

13

13

13

14

14

14

Portland 11.83

12.01

12.03

12.16

12.26

12.30

12.43

14

15

15

15

15

15

15

Philadelphia 12.30

12.44

12.58

12.63

12.75

12.83

12.89

15

14

14

14

13

13

13

Houston 12.47

12.42

12.28

12.20

11.96

11.78

11.48

16

16

16

16

16

16

16

San Jose 14.50

14.45

14.45

14.44

14.57

14.63

14.65

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

Chivas 15.50

15.36

15.26

15.17

15.10

15.06

15.10

18

18

18

18

18

18

18

Chicago 15.52

15.54

15.51

15.45

15.47

15.41

15.38

19

19

19

19

19

19

19

Montreal

17.88

17.90

17.85

17.81

17.75

17.69

17.63





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.