MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 12

"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 Weeks 11-12)

Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com)

Deseret News (www.deseretnews.com)



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 9-12)

Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers)



ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com)

Reddit/MLS (www.reddit.com/r/MLS) - (No ranking Weeks 10-12)

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

Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com)

Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net) - (No ranking Weeks 10-12)

Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)

UTN Sports (www.utnsports.com/category/soccer) - (No ranking Weeks 6-12)

Sites have started to dwindle. Over the 3 years I've been tracking Power Rankings it usually starts out with quite a few, but by mid-season at least 2-3 stop. Before the end of the season it's sometimes down by half of the starting total. 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 12 Week 11 Week 10 Week 9

T eam

W12 Avg W11 Avg W10 Avg W9 Avg

Low

High

Var

1

2

3

4

New England 1.56

2.00

3.20

5.82

3

1

2

2

1

1

2

Salt Lake 2.00

1.38

1.20

2.09 4

1

3

3

3

4

1

Seattle 2.56

2.63

3.60

1.00

4

1

3

4

4

5

8

Vancouver 4.67

4.75

5.00

7.09

6

4

2

5

5

2

3

Kansas City 5.56

4.88

2.20

3.00 14

4

10

6

11

7

10

Los Angeles 6.44

10.50

8.10

9.09

9

4

5

7

12

9

6

Colorado 7.44

10.63

8.90

6.45

14

3

11

8

6

6

11

D.C. 8.00

7.75

7.60

11.27 11

5

6

9

8

12

12

Toronto 9.56

8.75

12.00

11.73

13

7

6

10

14

14

9

Columbus 11.11

13.50

12.80

8.91

15

8

7

11

9

10

5

Dallas 11.44

9.88

8.90

6.00

17

6

11

12

10

8

7

New York 12.33

10.25

8.80

6.73

17

8

9

13

7

11

13

Houston 12.44

8.50

11.80

11.82

19

10

9

13

15

13

15

San Jose 12.44

14.38

12.60

15.27

16

7

9

15

18

16

14

Portland 14.67

16.88

15.50

14.45

16

2

14

16

13

15 18

Chicago 15.44

13.13

15.50

17.64

18

12

6

17

16

17

19

Chivas 15.78

15.13

16.30

18.55

18

10

8

18

17

18

16

Philadelphia 17.89

16.75

17.50

15.64

19

17

2

19

19

19

17

Montreal 18.78

18.50

18.60

16.91

19

16

3







Biggest Changes

Point Gaps High / Low Variance

Rise

Los Angeles : +5

Colorado: +5

Columbus: +4



Fall

Houston : -6

Chicago : -3

La rgest

San Jose - 2.23 - Portland

Seattle - 2.11 - Vancouver

Chivas - 2.11 - Philadelphia



Smallest

Houston - 0.00 - San Jose

New York - 0.11 - Houston

Columbus - 0.33 - Dallas

2 positions: New England, Vancouver, Philadelphia

3 positions: Salt Lake, Seattle, Montreal

5 positions: Los Angeles

6 positions: D.C., Toronto, Chicago

7 positions: Columbus

8 positions: Chivas

9 positions: New York, Houston, San Jose

10 positions: Kansas City

11+ positions: Colorado, Dallas, Portland





Season Average Power Ranking



Pos

T eam

W12 Avg W11 Avg W10 Avg W9 Avg W8 Avg W7 Avg W6 Avg W5 Avg W4 Avg W3 Avg

1

Salt Lake

1.92

1.92

1.97

2.05

2.05 2.03

2.14

2.38

2.51

2.63

2

Kansas City 4.15

4.03

3.94

4.13

4.28 4.28

4.53

4.90

5.14

5.59

3

Seattle 4.36

4.52

4.71

4.84

5.32 5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 5.74 4

Dallas 6.52

6.07

5.69

5.33

5.25 5.29

5.66

6.11

7.19

8.56

5

Vancouver 7.26

7.50

7.77

8.08

8.20

8.28

8.07

7.72

7.50

8.11

6

Los Angeles 7.49

7.58

7.28

7.20 6.97 6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7.70 7

Toronto 7.79

7.63

7.51

7.01

6.43

6.14

5.88

5.81

6.43

6.37

8

Columbus 8.14

7.87

7.30

6.70

6.42 6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 8.80 9

Colorado 8.86

8.99

8.84

8.81

9.11

9.00

9.50

10.45

11.10

11.13

10

Houston 8.91

8.59

8.63

8.24

7.80 6.82

5.86

4.79

3.72

2.85

11

New England 10.22

11.01

11.92

12.88

13.76

14.30

14.81

15.39

15.31

16.26

12

New York 11.62

11.56

11.64

12.01

12.67

13.16

13.24

12.68

12.40

12.02

13

Philadelphia 12.41

11.91

11.42

10.75

10.14 9.53

9.16

9.00

8.74

8.41 14

D.C. 13.34

13.83

14.44

15.19

15.68

16.63

17.38

18.05

18.68

18.63

15

Portland 13.74

13.65

13.34

13.09

12.92 12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 8.09 16

Chivas 14.72

14.62

14.58

14.38

13.86 13.36

13.10

12.82

12.54

12.61

16

San Jose

14.72

14.92

14.98

15.24

15.24 15.35

15.03

14.47

13.83

12.98

18

Chicago 15.51

15.51

15.75

15.78

15.55 15.56

15.63

15.69

15.88

15.93 19

Montreal

17.95

17.87

17.81

17.72

17.82

18.01

17.85

17.60

17.45

17.49





Largest gaps:

2.44 points between Chicago and Montreal

2.23 points between Salt Lake and Kansas City



Smallest gaps:

0.00 points between Chivas and San Jose



0.05 points between Colorado and Houston





Team High/Low

Best and worst placement for each team