Average power ranking culled from 6 sites, includes weekly high / low and overall season average. Few sites published due to World Cup coverage. Also an evaluation of 2 of the 16 sites used.



MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 17



"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) - (No ranking Week 14-17)

Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com) - (No ranking Week 14-17)

Deseret News (www.deseretnews.com) - (No ranking Week 13-17)

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 Weeks 9-17)

Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers)



ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com) - (No ranking Week 13-17)

Reddit/MLS (www.reddit.com/r/MLS) - (No ranking Weeks 10-17)

Seattle Times Blog (blogs.seattletimes.com/soundersfc) - (No ranking Week 16-17 *writer resigned)

Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com)

Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net) - (No ranking Weeks 10-17)

Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com) - (No ranking Week 14-17)

UTN Sports (www.utnsports.com/category/soccer) - (No ranking Weeks 6-17)

Once again due to the World Cup starting, a LOT of sites didn't publish Power Rankings for week 17.



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.

There were no Power Rankings for week 15 due to the World Cup break.

Week 17 Week 16 Week 14 Week 13 T eam

W17 Avg W16 Avg W14 Avg W13 Avg Low

High

Var

1

1

1

1

Seattle 1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1

1

0

2

4

2

2

Vancouver 3.00 5.00 2.60 2.88 7

2

5

3

5

3

6

D.C. 3.50 6.25 4.80 5.75 5

2

3

4

3

7

9

Kansas City 5.00 4.75 6.40 8.38 15

2

13

5

9

5

4

Salt Lake 6.25 8.75 5.40 3.63 8

3

5

6

2

6

7

Toronto 6.50

4.50

5.80

7.00

14

4

10

7

5

8

5

Colorado 7.50 6.25 8.80 5.63 13

3

10

8

10

12

14

Dallas 8.75 10.50 11.40 13.75 13

1

12

9

7

4

3

New England 9.25

7.25

5.00

3.50

10

7

3

9

8

9

8

Los Angeles 9.25

7.75

9.40

7.88

12

3

9

11

12

11

12

Portland 10.75 11.75 11.00 12.50 14

7

7

12

11

10

11

New York 11.00

11.25

9.80 12.25 16

5

11

13

13

13

13

Columbus 12.25 12.75 12.60 12.63 14

11

3

14

14

15

16

Philadelphia 14.25 13.25 15.60 16.13 16

8

8

15

18

19

19

Chivas 14.50 17.25 18.60 18.88 17

5

12

16

17

17

16

Chicago 15.75 16.25 16.20 16.13 18

9

9

17

16

18

18

Montreal 17.75

15.75

17.40

17.38

19

17

2

18

15

13

10

San Jose 18.00 14.00 12.60 10.00 19

13

6

18

19

16

15

Houston 18.00

18.75

16.00

14.13

19

15

4







Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

Salt Lake : +4

Chivas : +3





Fall

Toronto: -4

San Jose: -3



La rgest

Seattle - 2.00 - Vancouver

Columbus - 2.00 - Philadelphia

Chicago - 2.00 - Montreal



Smallest

New England - 0.00 - Los Angeles

San Jose - 0.00 - Houston

Salt Lake - 0.25 - Toronto

Portland - 0.25 - New York

Philadelphia - 0.25 - Chivas

Montreal - 0.25 - San Jose/Houston



0 positions: Seattle

2 position: Montreal

3 positions: D.C., New England, Columbus

4 positions: Houston

5 positions: Vancouver, Salt Lake

6 positions: San Jose

7 positions: Portland

8 positions: Philadelphia

9 positions: Los Angeles, Chicago

10 positions: Toronto, Colorado

11 positions: New York

12 positions: Dallas, Chivas

13 positions: Kansas City





Season Average Power Ranking



W17

W16

T eam

W17 Avg W16 Avg W14 Avg W13 Avg W12 Avg W11 Avg W10 Avg W9 Avg W8 Avg 1

1

Salt Lake

3.09

2.90

2.29

2.05

1.92

1.92

1.97

2.05

2.05 2

2

Seattle 3.65

3.82

3.88

4.10

4.36 4.52 4.71 4.84 5.32 3

3

Kansas City 4.35

4.31

4.62

4.48

4.15

4.03

3.94

4.13

4.28 4

4

Vancouver 6.73

6.97

6.62

6.92

7.26 7.50 7.77 8.08 8.20 5

5

Toronto 7.38

7.44

7.59

7.73

7.79

7.63

7.51

7.01

6.43

6

6

Los Angeles 7.55

7.45

7.65

7.52

7.49

7.58

7.28

7.20

6.97

7

7

Dallas 7.99

7.95

7.38

7.07

6.52

6.07

5.69

5.33

5.25 8

8

Colorado 8.61

8.68

8.62

8.61

8.86

8.99

8.84

8.81

9.11

9

9

New England 9.23

9.23

9.37

9.70

10.22

11.01

11.92

12.88

13.76

10

10

Columbus 9.53

9.36

8.78

8.49

8.14

7.87

7.30

6.70

6.42 11

11

Houston 10.72

10.27

9.79

9.31

8.91

8.59

8.63

8.24

7.80 12

12

New York 10.91

10.90

11.54

11.67

11.62

11.56

11.64

12.01

12.67

13

13

D.C. 11.50

12.00

12.19

12.76

13.34

13.83

14.44

15.19

15.68

14

14

Portland 12.42

12.52

13.45

13.64

13.74

13.65

13.34

13.09

12.92

15

15

Philadelphia 12.84

12.75

12.90

12.69

12.41

11.91

11.42

10.75

10.14 16

16 San Jose 14.33

14.10

14.23

14.35

14.72 14.92 14.98 15.24 15.24 17

17

Chicago 15.52

15.51

15.60

15.55

15.51

15.51

15.75

15.78

15.55

18

18

Chivas 15.54

15.60

15.29

15.04

14.72

14.62

14.58

14.38

13.86 19

19

Montreal

17.56

17.55

17.87

17.90

17.95

17.87

17.81

17.72

17.82





Team High/Low

Best and worst placement for each team

In the weekly averages 5 teams have been ranked 1st (Dallas, Houston, New England, Salt Lake, Seattle), and 3 teams have placed last (Chivas, D.C., Montreal).

In the season averages only 1 team has been ranked 1st (Salt Lake), and 2 teams last (D.C., Montreal).



Site Evaluations

I've broken the sites into 4 groups of 4 for easier publishing.

Group 1 - the "Big" sites (ESPN, SI, MLS, PST) *ESPN & MLS done last week.



Group 2 - the "dead" sites (Northbank, Reddit, SBI, UTN)

Group 3 - Newspapers (Dallas, Deseret, Oregon, SA)

Group 4 - Fan blogs (Allvoices, B&R, Multiplex, Seattle)

To avoid making each article longer than necessary I'll split the groups of 4 into 2 separate pieces over the next 8 weeks (or less since some sites have stopped). Each site will be evaluated based on the Week 14 PR Averages above, I'll do a post-season evaluation for the latter half of the season.



Here's my evaluation criteria.

Consistency - Publish regularly.

Bias - Teams are rated equally, not on any obvious bias.



Fairness - Teams dropping / rising significantly due to one result is not a fair representation of overall performance.

ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com)

Site WEEK C-Fire CUSA C-Rpd Ccrw DCU FCD H-Dyn LAG M-Ipt NER NYRB Puni Ptim RSL SJEq Ssdr SKC TFC Vwcp 03/12/14 1 18 14 11 10 19 15 8 5 17 16 9 7 3 1 11 6 2 11 4 03/18/14 2 17 11 14 9 19 13 2 8 15 18 16 3 6 1 7 10 5 4 12 03/25/14 3 15 14 11 3 19 8 6 9 18 17 16 5 13 2 10 7 4 1 12 04/01/14 4 17 15 11 3 19 8 6 9 16 12 18 5 13 1 14 7 2 4 10 04/08/14 5 14 15 10 4 19 6 8 5 17 16 18 9 12 2 13 7 1 3 11 04/15/14 6 14 15 8 4 17 7 12 6 18 11 19 9 16 2 13 5 1 3 10 04/23/14 7 14 18 8 7 16 5 11 4 19 10 17 12 15 2 13 3 1 6 9 04/30/14 8 13 18 10 7 15 5 16 4 19 11 8 17 14 3 12 1 2 6 9 05/06/14 9 16 19 10 6 15 5 14 4 18 7 8 17 12 3 13 1 2 11 9 05/13/14 10 14 17 16 11 9 10 13 5 19 3 7 18 15 2 8 4 1 12 6 05/20/14 11 13 17 18 10 12 14 9 6 19 1 7 15 16 2 10 3 4 8 5 05/27/14 12 15 17 14 11 7 13 12 5 19 1 10 18 16 2 9 3 4 8 5 n/a 13





































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Average

14.39 15.31 11.46 7.15 15.00 8.92 9.31 5.54 17.08 9.85 11.85 10.92 11.77 2.00 10.62 4.62 2.39 6.15 8.23 All Site average

15.60

15.29

8.62

8.78

12.19

7.38

9.79

7.65

17.87

9.37

11.54

12.90

13.45

2.29

14.23

3.88

4.62

7.59

6.62

+ / -



-1.21

+0.02

+2.84

-1.63

+2.81

+1.54

-0.48

-2.11

-0.79

+0.48

+0.31

-1.98

-1.68

-0.29

-3.61

+0.74

-2.23

-1.44

+1.61



Consistency: Missed twice since start of season (likely due to increased World Cup coverage).



Bias: 4 teams with a variance above 2; highest was -3.61, closest to average was +0.02



Fairness: Excluding the first 5 weeks the largest jumps were New York (9 pos. Wk 8), D.C. (6 pos. Wk 10), New England (5 pos. Wk 6), Houston (5 pos. Wk 8), Toronto (5 pos. Wk 9), Dallas (5 pos. Wk 10), San Jose (5 pos. Wk 10). As with the MLS ratings there were only 2 jumps higher than 5, the 9 position jump for New York is quite excessive coming after back to back wins over two struggling teams.

Sports Illustrated (www.si.com/soccer/planet-futbol)

Site WEEK C-Fire CUSA C-Rpd Ccrw DCU FCD H-Dyn LAG M-Ipt NER NYRB Puni Ptim RSL SJEq Ssdr SKC TFC Vwcp 03/11/14 1 17 16 11 13 19 10 6 7 18 9 5 8 3 1 14 4 2 15 12 03/17/14 2 17 12 10 13 19 9 1 8 18 15 6 2 5 3 16 7 4 11 14 03/24/14 3 16 13 9 10 18 8 1 7 19 15 12 3 11 4 17 6 2 5 14 03/31/14 4 17 13 10 1 19 4 5 8 18 14 12 6 15 3 16 9 2 7 11 04/07/14 5 16 14 9 4 18 2 6 10 19 13 12 7 15 1 17 8 5 3 11 04/14/14 6 15 12 7 2 17 4 10 9 19 11 14 8 16 1 18 6 3 5 13 04/21/14 7 16 14 8 4 15 3 10 7 19 11 13 9 17 1 18 5 2 6 12 04/28/14 8 16 15 9 5 12 4 14 7 18 10 8 13 19 1 17 2 3 6 11 05/05/14 9 19 16 7 10 13 6 12 9 17 5 4 14 15 2 18 1 3 11 8 05/12/14 10 18 14 9 13 10 8 12 7 19 4 6 17 15 1 16 3 2 11 5 05/19/14 11 17 13 10 14 12 6 11 7 19 3 8 15 16 1 18 2 5 9 4 05/26/14 12 18 13 7 12 11 9 14 5 19 1 10 17 15 2 16 3 6 8 4 06/02/14 13 19 18 5 13 9 12 15 8 18 3 10 16 11 4 14 1 7 6 2 n/a 14





































Average

16.64 14.43 8.57 9.36 15.00 6.86 8.93 7.43 18.29 8.57 8.86 10.36 12.57 1.93 16.29 4.57 3.36 8.36 9.71 All Site average

15.60

15.29

8.62

8.78

12.19

7.38

9.79

7.65

17.87

9.37

11.54

12.90

13.45

2.29

14.23

3.88

4.62

7.59

6.62

+ / -



+1.04

-0.86

-0.05

+0.58

+2.81

-0.52

-0.86

-0.22

+0.42

-0.80

-2.68

-2.54

-0.88

-0.36

+2.06

+0.69

-1.26

+0.77

+3.09

