Aug 1, 2014; Kansas City, KS, USA; A general view of the Xbox One ads displayed during the first half of the match between Sporting KC and the Philadelphia Union at Sporting Park. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports

EA Sports have released all the FIFA 16 player rankings and you can check out Sporting Kansas Cities over at FUTHead.com. FIFA 16 comes out today, so you are probably playing instead of reading, but take a few minutes to rest your thumbs. Rightfully so, Benny Feilhaber is the top ranked Sporting KC player on the team coming in at a 75 overall. That would leave Benny just outside the top 20 as Nick Rimando came in at 20th and he is a 76 overall.

When you consider that Feilhaber was 4th in the last MVP Ladder that MLS put out, it hardly seems fair to have him outside the top 20. For that matter Kei Kamara is 2nd in the ladder and Dax McCarty is 5th, and they were both left off the list. Maybe EA needs to get their priorities straight.

After Feilhaber, Matt Besler checks in at #2 on Sporting KC with a 74 overall ranking. I’d be inclined to agree that he is the 2nd best player on the team, so the rating seems fitting. In somewhat of a surprise, Ike Opara comes in at the 3rd spot with a 72 overall rating. I personally think Ike is great, if he could only stay healthy to be a regular contributor. The fact he is rated so well does show that someone over at EA knows what is going on.

Dom Dwyer and Graham Zusi come in tied for 4th with a 71 overall. That also seems pretty inline. I wonder if Jurgen Klinsmann is taking notice so that when Dom becomes eligible, he can be called into the US National Team? I doubt it, since he never seems to notice Benny Feilhaber, and that sort of exceptional play is hard to miss.

Interestingly, Roger Espinoza comes in at the 6th spot with just a 70 overall rating, and he’s in a tie there with Krisztian Nemeth. I say interesting because Espinoza is the highest paid player on the team.

Now I don’t want to waste everyone’s time and go all the way down the list, however I do have a few more problems with the rankings. They have Soni Mustivar at just a 67 overall and just as the 13th best player on the team. For anyone that watches this team, we did lose 3 straight when he was injured. I feel that’s a little low and not showing how important Soni is to Sporting KC. He’s behind both our left backs (Sinovic and de Jong) and Jalil Anibaba, which means he is starting despite his lower ranking. At least they moved him above Okugo who started over him in the updated version of FIFA 15.

The highest rated rookie on the team is Amadou Dia, which I’m good with, but they appear to have him out of position at right back. Maybe that’s his natural position, but he’s only played on the left side as far as I can remember, and if he is a right back, why isn’t he getting minutes over Saad Abdul-Salaam with Chance Myers and Anibaba being so often injured this year? It seems EA messed that up. Speaking of Abdul-Salaam, they have him as a center back. Maybe that’s where he is supposed to play, but all his minutes are on the right side this year.

Oddly, this list omits goal keepers, so it’s hard to know if Melia is getting his much deserved bump. I guess I’ll need to go buy the game to figure that out. Maybe when there is a price drop, as I am quite cheap.

Go check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.