MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 8

"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) - No Ranking Wk 8



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 8



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 8

Week 7

Week 6

T eam

W8 Ave

W7 Ave

W6 Ave

Low

High

Var

1

4

5

Seattle 1.00

3.33 4.83 2

1

1

2

1

1

Salt Lake 2.18

1.42

1.50

6

1

5

3

2

2

Kansas City 4.00

2.75

3.67

6

2

4

4

3

3

Dallas 4.45

3.08

3.83

11

2

9

5

5

6

Los Angeles 5.27

5.58 5.33 7

3

4

6

7

7

Columbus 5.73

6.50 5.58 9

3

6

7

8

8

Toronto 8.45

7.75 6.58 14

6

8

8

9

9

Vancouver 8.73

9.50 10.17 12

6

6

9

14

17

New York 9.18

12.67 16.08 12

5

7

10

12

13

D.C. 9.27

12.08 13.25 15

2

13

11

6

4

Colorado 9.82

6.00

4.67

12

8

4

12

10

11

New England 10.09

11.25 11.42 12

3

9

13

13

12

Houston 14.18

12.58 12.00 18

13

5

14

18

18

San Jose 14.45

17.25 17.33 17

11

6

15

11

10

Philadelphia 14.73

11.75

10.25

17

13

4

16

16

15

Chicago 15.82

15.17 15.00 19

13

6

17

19

19

Montreal 16.91

19.00 18.75 19

14

5

18

17

16

Portland 17.64

17.00 15.58 19

13

6

19

15

14

Chivas 18.00

14.92

13.83

19

15

4







Biggest Changes

Largest Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

New York: +5

San Jose: +4

Seattle: +3



Fall

Colorado: -5

Philadelphia: -4

Chivas: -4

NER - 4.09 - HDyn

CCrw - 2.72 - TFC

RSL - 1.82 - SKC

1 position: Seattle

4 positions: KC, Colo, Phil, Chv

5 positions: SLk, LA, Hou, Mont

6 positions: Clmb, Vcvr, SJ, Chg, Port

7 positions: NY

8 positions: Tor

9+ positions: Dal, DC, NE





Season Average Power Ranking



Pos

T eam

W8 Ave W7 Ave W6 Ave W5 Ave W4 Ave W3 Ave

W2 Ave

W1 Ave

1

Salt Lake

2.05

2.03

2.14

2.38

2.51

2.63

1.95 1.50 2

Kansas City 4.24

4.28

4.53

4.90

5.14

5.59

5.62

4.50

3

Dallas 5.19

5.29

5.66

6.11

7.19

8.56

10.20

11.00

4

Seattle 5.33

5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 5.74 5.68 3.43 5

Toronto 6.43

6.14 5.88 5.81 6.43 6.37 8.25 11.57 6

Columbus 6.44

6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 8.80 10.11 10.21 7

Los Angeles 6.73

6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7.70 7.16 6.64 8

Houston 7.74

6.82

5.86

4.79

3.72

2.85

3.24 5.00 9

Vancouver 8.33

8.28 8.07 7.72 7.50 8.11 7.34 6.00 10

Colorado 9.10

9.00 9.50 10.45 11.10 11.13 12.14 12.07 11

Philadelphia 10.18

9.53

9.16

9.00

8.74

8.41 8.05 10.29 12

New York 12.66

13.16 13.24 12.68 12.40 12.02 11.37 9.93 13

Portland 12.88

12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 8.09 5.97 4.21 14 New England 13.77

14.30 14.81 15.39 15.31 16.26 16.02 14.57 15

Chivas 13.94

13.36

13.10

12.82

12.54

12.61

12.25

13.43

16

San Jose

15.24

15.35

15.03

14.47

13.83

12.98

12.50 13.07 17

Chicago 15.59

15.56

15.63

15.69

15.88

15.93 16.37 16.86 18

D.C. 15.71

16.63

17.38

18.05

18.68

18.63

18.59

18.64

19

Montreal

17.87

18.01

17.85

17.60

17.45

17.49

17.13 16.86





Largest gap: 2.48 points between NYRB and Philly

Smallest gap: 0.01 between Toronto and Columbus



Team High/Low

Best and worst placement for each team