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Power Rankings Overview: RSL slips to bottom half; Montreal continues ranking dominance

By Kreg Asay
USA TODAY Sports

Power Ranking Averages for week 4
Compiled by K. Asay

Sites Used:
*Bleacher Report (bleacherreport.com)
*ESPN (espnfc.com/powerrankings/_/year/2013)
*Goal.com (www.goal.com/en-us/news/1110/major-league-soccer)
*Major League Soccer (www.mlssoccer.com/news)
*MLS Nations (www.mlsnations.com)
*Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com)
*Sports Illustrated (sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/?eref=sinav)

No ratings published for week 4:
*NBC Sports (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com)
*Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net/sbi-mls-power-rankings)

Weekly Average Power Ranking

W4
 W3 W2
 W1
 Pre
 Team
 W4 Ave W3 Ave W2 Ave
 W1 Ave
 w4 High
 w4 Low
1
 1
 2
 5
 14
 Montreal 1.00
 1.00
 2.75
 6.88
 1
 1
2
 2
 1
 1
 1
 LA Galaxy
 2.14
 2.44
 1.25
 1.13
 2
 3
3
 4
 2
 4
 3
 Houston 3.71
 6.00
 2.75
 3.38
 2
 6
4
 10
 17
 13
 13
 Dallas
 5.00
 9.89
 16.25
 11.5
 3
 7
4
 8
 7
 9
 5
 S.J Earthquakes
 5.00
 8.11
 7.88
 9.00
 3
 7
6
 3
 4
 8
 12
 Vancouver 6.57
 2.56
 3.38
 8.88
 4
 9
7
 12
 11
 6
 11
 Columbus 6.71
 11.78
 11.13
 8.00
 4
 10
8
 15
 15
 19
 19
 Chivas 9.29
 14.22
 14.88
 18.63
 7
 12
9
 9
 13
 15
 15
 Philadelphia 9.86
 8.78
 12.38
 15.5
 6
 14
9
 6
 8
 2
 4
 Spt. Kansas City 9.86
 6.78
 8.00
 2.50
 4
 17
11
 7
 5
 12
 7
 D.C. United 10.14
 7.11
 6.38
 10.38
 3
 12
12
 5
 6
 3
 6
 Real Salt Lake 11.43
 6.56
 6.88
 3.13
 8
 16
13
 11
 9
 10
 2
 Seattle
 13.57
 10.22
 9.00
 9.25
 12
 15
14
 14
 10
 17
 17
 New England 14.43
 13.78
 10.00
 16.25
 12
 18
15
 16
 16
 11
 10
 Portland 14.57
 14.56
 15.00
 10.13
 6
 17
16
 13
 14
 7
 8
 New York 14.86
 13.33
 12.88
 8.25
 10
 17
17
 17
 12
 18
 18
 Toronto
 15.14
 15.67
 12.25
 17.75
 13
 18
18
 18
 18
 16
 16
 Colorado 17.57
 18.11
 18.38
 16.00
 15
 19
19
 19
 18
 14
 9
 Chicago
 18.86
 18.67
 18.38
 13.00
 18
 19


Movers:
Jets: Chv +7, FCD +6, CC +5
Bricks: RSL -7, DC -4, NY -3 positions
Glaciers: MI, LA, PU, TFC, CF no change

High/Low Variance
The wider the variance the more confused raters would seem to be regarding a team's performance. This goes along with Site Consistency (below).
0 positions: MI
1 position: LA, CF
3 positions: SS
4 positions: HD, FCD, SJE, CR
5 positions: Chv, VWc, TFC
6 positions: CC, NE
7 positions: NY
8 positions: PU, RSL
9 positions: DCU
11 positions: PT
13 positions: SKC

Site Consistency
General observation of how well a site ranks teams. If a team takes a huge rise/drop on their ratings after only one win/loss they're not being very consistent in ranking, after all every team will have a bad game once in a while.

SITE
 		Largest
W3 diff
 		Eval.
 		Largest
W4 diff
 		Eval
Soc.Amer
 1@9 pos
 poor
 2@6 pos
 so-so
MLS
 1@4 pos
 ok
 1@8 pos
 Poor
Goal
 1@6 pos
 so-so 1@5 pos
 ok
SBI
 (no wk2)
 NA
 (no wk4)
 NA
ESPN
 2@6 pos so-so 1@6 pos so-so
NBCS
 3@5 pos
 so-so (no wk 4)
 NA
S.I.
 3@3 pos
 not bad
 2@5 pos
 so-so
MLS Nat.
 2@6 pos
 so-so
 1@11 pos
 poor
BR
 1@11 pos
 poor
 1@6 pos
 so-so


Firsts and Lasts:

Contenders
Position
 Team (wks run)
1st
 MI (2 wk), LA (2 wks)
2nd
 LA (2 wk), HD (1 wk), SKC (1 wk)
3rd
 HD, (1 wk), VWc (1 wk), MI (1 wk), RSL (1 wk)
Also Rans
17th
 TFC (2 wk), FCD (1 wk), NE (1 wk)
18th
 CR (3 wks*), CF (1 wk*), TFC (1 wk)
19th
 CF (2 wk), Chv (1 wk)

*CF & CR (tied for 18th wk 2)

Season Average Power Ranking

W4
 W3 W2
 W1
 Pre
 Team
1.74
 1.61
 1.19
 1.13
 1.57
 L.A. Galaxy
2.91
 3.54
 4.82
 6.88
 12.00
 Montreal
3.96
 4.04
 3.07
 3.38
 3.00
 Houston
5.35
 4.94
 6.13
 8.88
 9.86
 Vancouver
6.79
 5.76
 5.25
 2.50
 3.43
 Sp. Kansas City
7.00
 5.52
 5.01
 3.13
 6.14
 Real Salt Lake
7.50
 8.33
 8.44
 9.00
 4.86
 San Jose
8.50
 7.96
 8.38
 10.38
 6.14
 D.C. United
9.41
 10.30
 9.57
 8.00
 9.71
 Columbus
10.51
 9.49
 9.13
 9.25
 2.86
 Seattle
10.66
 12.55
 13.88
 11.50
 11.29
 Dallas
11.63
 12.22
 13.94
 15.50
 12.71
 Philadelphia
12.33
 11.49
 10.57
 8.25
 6.29
 New York
13.57
 13.23
 12.57
 10.13
 9.14
 Portland
13.62
 13.34
 13.13
 16.25
 14.71
 New England
14.26
 15.91
 16.76
 18.63
 15.57
 Chivas
15.20
 15.22
 15.00
 17.75
 14.86
 Toronto
17.23
 16.68
 15.69
 13.00
 6.71
 Chicago
17.52
 17.50
 17.19
 16.00
 13.14
 Colorado

Contenders
Position
 Team (wks run)
1st
 LA (4 wks)
2nd
 MI (2 wk), HD (1 wk), SKC (1 wk)
3rd
 HD (2 wk), MI (1 wk), RSL (1 wk)
Also Rans
17th
 TFC (1 wk), Chv (1 wk), CF (1 wk), NE (1 wk)
18th
 CF (2 wk), Chv (1 wk), TFC (1 wk)
19th
 CR (3 wks), Chv (1 wk)

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