

MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 29



"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:

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)

Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)

Possible Dead List

Allvoices (www.allvoices.com/users/zacwassink) - (No ranking Week 22-29)

Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com) - (No ranking Week 23-29)

Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net) - (No ranking Week 21-29)



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.



Retroactive change for Wk 27 to include Seattle Times' unpublished list, the missing ratings were acquired from this week's list. One position change occurred as Vancouver moved into a tie with Houston at #12.

Wk 29 Wk 28 Wk 27 Wk 26 Wk 25 T eam

W29 Avg W28 Avg W27 Avg W26 Avg W25 Avg W24 Avg Low

High

Range

1

1

2

1

1

Los Angeles 1.00

1.17

2.00

1.17

1.50

3.50

1

1

0

2

2

1

2

2

Seattle 2.33

2.50

1.00

1.83

2.17

3.00

4

2

2

3

3

5

4

5

Salt Lake 4.33

3.17

4.80

3.83

4.83

4.83

9

3

6

3

4

4

3

3

D.C. 4.33

5.17

4.60

3.17

3.33

2.83

6

2

4

3

5

3

5

4

Dallas 4.33

5.83

3.60

4.83

3.50

1.17

8

3

5

6

7

6

6

9

New England 5.50

7.00

5.80

7.33

9.83

13.83

7

2

5

7

11

11

11

9

Columbus 7.33

9.67

10.80

9.50

9.83

8.33

9

3

6

8

6

7

9

11

New York 8.17

6.17

7.60

8.83

10.00

8.00

11

2

9

9

8

8

7

8

Philadelphia 10.83

8.33

7.80

8.00

9.00

9.33

13

8

5

10

9

10

8

7

Portland 11.17

8.50

9.80

8.33

7.50

11.50

14

8

6

10

10

9

10

6

Kansas City 11.17

9.17

8.20

9.17

6.67

6.00

14

8

6

12

13

14

14

12

Toronto 11.33

13.50

14.00

14.00

11.83

8.50

14

7

7

13

14

12

12

13

Vancouver 11.83

13.83

12.60

12.83

12.83

10.83

13

7

6

14

12

12

13

14

Houston 12.33

12.83

12.60

13.00

13.67

15.67

14

9

5

15

15

15

16

15

Chicago 15.50

14.83

15.40

15.83

15.00

16.17

17

15

2

16

16

18

18

18

Montreal 16.50

16.17

17.80

17.33

17.33

19.00

18

15

3

16

17

16

15

16

San Jose 16.50

16.50

15.80

14.83

15.67

14.50

18

15

3

18

18

17

17

17

Colorado 17.50

17.50

16.60

16.67

16.00

15.33

18

16

2

19

19

19

19

19

Chivas 19.00

19.00

19.00

19.00

19.00

17.67

19

19

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Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Range

Rise

Columbus: +4

Dallas: +2



Fall

New York: -2

Houston: -2

La rgest

HOU - 3.17 - CHI

NYRB - 2.66 - PHI



Smallest

RSL - 0.00 - DCU - 0.00 - FCD

POR - 0.00 - SKC

MON - 0.00 - SJE

0 position: LAG, CHV

2 positions: SEA, CHI, COL

3 positions: MON, SJE

4 positions: DCU

5 positions: FCD, NER, PHI, HOU

6 positions: RSL, CLB, POR, SKC, VAN

7 positions: TOR

9 positions: NYRB





Season Average Power Ranking

One change on the table for Week 29. New England edged Colorado for 11th.





W29 W28 W27 W26 W25 W24 T eam

W29 Avg W28 Avg W27 Avg W26 Avg W25 Avg W24 Avg 1

1

1

1

1

1

Seattle 3.06

3.09

3.11

3.19

3.25

3.29

2

2

2

2

2

2

Salt Lake

3.85

3.83

3.86

3.82

3.82

3.78

3

3

3

3

3

3

Kansas City 4.80

4.57

4.40

4.26

4.06

3.96

4

4

4

4

4

4

Los Angeles 5.67

5.83

6.01

6.16

6.36

6.56

5

5

5

5

5

6

Dallas

6.74

6.83

6.87

6.99

7.08

7.23

6

6

6

6

6

5

Vancouver 8.14

8.01

7.79

7.61

7.40

7.17

7

7

7

7

7

7

Toronto 8.25

8.14

7.94

7.71

7.46

7.27

8

8

8

8

8

9

D.C.

8.33

8.47

8.60

8.75

8.97

9.21

9

9

10

10

10

10

Columbus 10.08

10.18

10.20

10.18

10.20

10.22

10

10

11

11

11

11

New York 10.17

10.24

10.39

10.49

10.56

10.58

11

12

12

12

12

12

New England 10.39

10.57

10.70

10.89

11.03

11.08

12

11

9

9

9

8

Colorado 10.52

10.27

10.00

9.74

9.47

9.20

13

13

13

13

13

13

Portland 11.50

11.51

11.62

11.69

11.83

12.01

14

14

14

14

14

15

Philadelphia 11.81

11.85

11.98

12.14

12.30

12.44

15

15

15

15

15

14

Houston 12.50

12.51

12.50

12.49

12.47

12.42

16

16

16

16

16

16

San Jose 14.71

14.64

14.57

14.51

14.50

14.45

17

17

17

17

18

18

Chicago 15.50

15.50

15.53

15.53

15.52

15.54

18

18

18

18

17

17

Chivas 15.99

15.88

15.76

15.64

15.50

15.36

19

19

19

19

19

19

Montreal

17.75

17.79

17.85

17.86

17.88

17.90





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.