MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 11

"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 11)



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 11)

Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers)



ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com)

Reddit/MLS (www.reddit.com/r/MLS) - (No ranking Week 11)

Seattle Times Blog (blogs.seattletimes.com/soundersfc)

Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com)

Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net) - (No ranking Week 11)

Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)

UTN Sports (www.utnsports.com/category/soccer) - (No ranking Week 11)

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.

Some averages from the last 2 weeks have been modified due to sites publishing their lists after I did. Standings have been modified accordingly.

Weekly Power Ranking Averages

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

Week 11 Week 10 Week 9

Week 8

T eam

W11 Avg W10 Avg W9 Avg

W8 Avg

Low

High

Var

1

1

2

2

Salt Lake 1.38

1.20

2.09 2.15

2

1

1

2

3

4

12

New England 2.00

3.20

5.82

9.85

3

1

2

3

4

1

1

Seattle 2.63

3.60

1.00

1.00

3

2

1

4

5

8

7

Vancouver 4.75

5.00

7.09

8.15

10

4

6

5

2

3

3

Kansas City 4.88

2.20

3.00 4.23

14

4

10

6

6

11

9

D.C. 7.75

7.60

11.27 9.31

12

4

8

7

11

13

13

Houston 8.50

11.80

11.82

14.46

11

4

7

8

12

12

8

Toronto 8.75

12.00

11.73

8.54

12

8

4

9

10 5

4

Dallas 9.88

8.90

6.00

4.54

18

5

13

10

8

7

11

New York 10.25

8.80

6.73

9.46

15

6

11

11

7

10

5

Los Angeles 10.50

8.10

9.09 5.77 19

6

13

12

9

6

10

Colorado 10.63

8.90

6.45

9.38

18

7

11

13

15 18

16

Chicago 13.13

15.50

17.64

16.00

17

5

12

14

14

9

6

Columbus 13.50

12.80

8.91

5.92

17

10

7

15

13

15

14

San Jose 14.38

12.60

15.27 14.54 18

10

8

16

17

19

18

Chivas 15.13

16.30

18.55

17.77

18

7

11

17

18

16

15

Philadelphia 16.75

17.50

15.64

14.62

19

13

6

18

16

14

18

Portland 16.88

15.50

14.45 17.77

19

6

13

19

19

17

17

Montreal 18.50

18.60

16.91

16.54 19

11

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Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

Houston : +4

Toronto : +4



Fall

Los Angeles : -4

Kansas City : -3

Colorado: -3

La rgest

Vancouver - 3.00 - D.C.

Colorado - 2.50 - Chicago



Smallest

Vancouver - 0.13 - Kansas City

Los Angeles - 0.13 - Colorado

Philadelphia - 0.13 - Portland

1 position: Salt Lake, Seattle

2 positions: New England

4 positions: Toronto

6 positions: Vancouver, Philadelphia

7 positions: Houston, Columbus

8 positions: D.C., San Jose, Montreal

10 positions: Kansas City

11 positions: New York, Colorado, Chivas

12 positions: Chicago

13 positions: Dallas, L.A., Portland





Season Average Power Ranking



Pos

T eam

W11 Avg W10 Avg W9 Avg W8 Avg W7 Avg W6 Avg W5 Avg W4 Avg W3 Avg

W2 Avg

1

Salt Lake

1.92

1.97

2.05

2.05 2.03

2.14

2.38

2.51

2.63

1.95 2

Kansas City 4.03

3.94

4.13

4.28 4.28

4.53

4.90

5.14

5.59

5.62

3

Seattle 4.52

4.71

4.84

5.32 5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 5.74 5.68 4

Dallas 6.07

5.69

5.33

5.25 5.29

5.66

6.11

7.19

8.56

10.20

5

Vancouver 7.50

7.77

8.08

8.20

8.28

8.07

7.72

7.50

8.11

7.34

6

Los Angeles 7.58

7.28

7.20 6.97 6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7.70 7.16 7

Toronto 7.63

7.51

7.01

6.43

6.14

5.88

5.81

6.43

6.37

8.25

8

Columbus 7.87

7.30

6.70

6.42 6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 8.80 10.11 9

Houston 8.59

8.63

8.24

7.80 6.82

5.86

4.79

3.72

2.85

3.24 10

Colorado 8.99

8.84

8.81

9.11 9.00 9.50 10.45 11.10 11.13 12.14 11

New England 11.01

11.92

12.88

13.76

14.30

14.81

15.39

15.31

16.26

16.02

12

New York 11.56

11.64

12.01

12.67

13.16

13.24

12.68

12.40

12.02

11.37

13

Philadelphia 11.91

11.42

10.75

10.14 9.53

9.16

9.00

8.74

8.41 8.05 14

Portland 13.65

13.34

13.09

12.92 12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 8.09 5.97 15

D.C. 13.83

14.44

15.19 15.68 16.63 17.38 18.05 18.68 18.63 18.59 16

Chivas 14.62

14.58

14.38

13.86 13.36

13.10

12.82

12.54

12.61

12.25

17

San Jose

14.92

14.98

15.24

15.24 15.35

15.03

14.47

13.83

12.98

12.50 18

Chicago 15.51

15.75

15.78

15.55 15.56

15.63

15.69

15.88

15.93 16.37 19

Montreal

17.87

17.81

17.72

17.82

18.01

17.85

17.60

17.45

17.49

17.13



Largest gaps:

2.36 points between Chicago and Montreal

2.11 points between Salt Lake and Kansas City



Smallest gaps:

0.05 points between L.A. and Toronto

0.08 points between Vancouver and L.A.





Team High/Low

Best and worst placement for each team