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Power Ranking Averages - Week 10 RSL back on top

An average of 12 sites that publish MLS Power Rankings. Includes both weekly and full season average.

By Kreg Asay
Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports

MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 10

"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)
  • Dallas News Soccer Blog (www.soccerblog.dallasnews.com)
  • Deseret News (www.deseretnews.com) - New bi-weekly (No ranking Week 10)
  • 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 Week 10)
  • Oregon Live (www.oregonlive.com/timbers)
  • ProSoccerTalk (prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com)
  • Reddit/MLS (www.reddit.com/r/MLS) - (No ranking Week 10)
  • Seattle Times Blog (blogs.seattletimes.com/soundersfc)
  • Soccer America (www.socceramerica.com)
  • Soccer by Ives (www.soccerbyives.net)
  • Sports Illustrated (www.soccer.si.com)
  • UTN Sports (www.utnsports.com/category/soccer) - (No ranking Week 10)

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 10 Week 9
 		Week 8
 		Week 7
 		Team
 		W10 Ave W9 Ave
 		W8 Ave
 		W7 Ave
 		Low
 		High
 		Var
1
 2
 2
 1
 Salt Lake 1.20
 2.09 2.15
 1.42 3
 1
 2
2
 3
 3
 2
 Kansas City 2.20
 3.00 4.23
 2.75 5
 1
 4
3
 4
 12
 10
 New England 3.20
 5.82 9.85 11.25 6
 1
 5
4
 1
 1
 4
 Seattle 3.60
 1.00
 1.00
 3.33 9
 2
 7
5
 8
 7
 9
 Vancouver 5.00
 7.09 8.15
 9.50 6
 3
 3
6
 11
 9
 12
 D.C. 7.60
 11.27 9.31
 12.08 10
 4
 6
7
 10
 5
 5
 Los Angeles 8.10
 9.09 5.77 5.58 14
 5
 9
8
 7
 11
 14
 New York 8.80
 6.73 9.46 12.67 12
 6
 6
9 (tie)
 5
 4
 3
 Dallas 8.90
 6.00
 4.54
 3.08
 18
 6
 12
9 (tie)
 6
 10
 6
 Colorado 8.90
 6.45
 9.38
 6.00 16
 5
 11
11
 13
 13
 13
 Houston 11.80
 11.82 14.46 12.58 14
 7
 7
12
 12
 8
 8
 Toronto 12.00
 11.73 8.54
 7.75 15
 9
 6
13
 15
 14
 18
 San Jose 12.60
 15.27 14.54 17.25 16
 8
 8
14
 9
 6
 7
 Columbus 12.80
 8.91
 5.92
 6.50 19
 9
 10
15 (tie)
 18
 16
 16
 Chicago 15.50
 17.64 16.00 15.17 18
 11
 7
15 (tie)
 14
 18
 17
 Portland 15.50
 14.45 17.77
 17.00 19
 6
 13
17
 19
 18
 15
 Chivas 16.30
 18.55 17.77 14.92 18
 7
 11
18
 16
 15
 11
 Philadelphia 17.50
 15.64
 14.62
 11.75
 19
 15
 4
19
 17
 17
 19
 Montreal 18.60
 16.91
 16.54 19.00 19
 17
 2


Biggest Changes
 		Largest Point Gaps High / Low Variance
Rise
D.C. : +5
Vancouver : +3
Los Angeles: +3

Fall
Dallas : -4
Columbus: -5
 Dallas/Colorado - 2.90 - Houston
Columbus - 2.70 - Chicago/Portland
Vancouver - 2.60 - D.C.
 2 positions: Salt Lake, Montreal
3 positions: Vancouver
4 positions: Kansas City, Philadelphia
5 positions: New England
6 positions: D.C., New York, Toronto
7 positions: Seattle, Houston, Chicago
8 positions: San Jose
9 positions: Los Angeles,
10+ positions: Dallas, Colorado, Columbus, Portland, Chivas


Season Average Power Ranking

Pos
 Team
 		W10 Ave W9 Ave W8 Ave W7 Ave W6 Ave W5 Ave W4 Ave W3 Ave
 W2 Ave
 		W1 Ave
1
 Salt Lake
 1.97
 2.05
 2.05 2.03
 2.14
 2.38
 2.51
 2.63
 1.95 1.50
2
 Kansas City 3.94
 4.13
 4.28 4.28
 4.53
 4.90
 5.14
 5.59
 5.62
 4.50
3
 Seattle 4.71
 4.84
 5.32 5.95 6.39 6.87 6.54 5.74 5.68 3.43
4
 Dallas 5.69
 5.33
 5.25 5.29
 5.66
 6.11
 7.19
 8.56
 10.20
 11.00
5
 Los Angeles 7.29
 7.20 6.97 6.94 7.17 7.72 7.98 7.70 7.16 6.64
6
 Columbus 7.31
 6.70
 6.42 6.54 6.55 6.76 7.17 8.80 10.11 10.21
7
 Toronto 7.51
 7.01
 6.43 6.14 5.88 5.81 6.43 6.37 8.25 11.57
8
 Vancouver 7.77
 8.08
 8.20 8.28 8.07 7.72 7.50 8.11 7.34 6.00
9
 Houston 8.60
 8.24
 7.80 6.82
 5.86
 4.79
 3.72
 2.85
 3.24 5.00
10
 Colorado 8.82
 8.81
 9.11 9.00 9.50 10.45 11.10 11.13 12.14 12.07
11
 Philadelphia 11.43
 10.75
 10.14 9.53
 9.16
 9.00
 8.74
 8.41 8.05 10.29
12
 New York 11.69
 12.01
 12.67 13.16 13.24 12.68 12.40 12.02 11.37 9.93
13
 New England 11.91
 12.88
 13.76 14.30 14.81 15.39 15.31 16.26 16.02 14.57
14
 Portland 13.33
 13.09
 12.92 12.19 11.39 10.66 9.77 8.09 5.97 4.21
15
 D.C. 14.43
 15.19 15.68 16.63 17.38 18.05 18.68 18.63 18.59 18.64
16
 Chivas 14.57
 14.38
 13.86 13.36
 13.10
 12.82
 12.54
 12.61
 12.25
 13.43
17
 San Jose
 14.98
 15.24
 15.24 15.35
 15.03
 14.47
 13.83
 12.98
 12.50 13.07
18
 Chicago 15.75
 15.78
 15.55 15.56
 15.63
 15.69
 15.88
 15.93 16.37 16.86
19
 Montreal
 17.81
 17.72
 17.82
 18.01
 17.85
 17.60
 17.45
 17.49
 17.13 16.86


Largest gap:  2.06 points between Chicago and Montreal
Smallest gap: 0.02 between L.A. and Columbus

Team High/Low
Best and worst placement for each team

Team
 		Weekly
High 		Weekly
Low
 		Season
High
 		Season
Low
Chicago Fire
 15
 18
 16
 18
Chivas USA
 12
 19
 13
 16
Colorado Rapids
 4
 14
 10
 13
Columbus Crew
 2
 14
 5
 11
D.C. United
 6
 19
 15
 19
FC Dallas
 1
 11
 3
 11
Houston Dynamo
 1
 13
 2
 9
LA Galaxy
 5
 10
 5
 9
Montreal Impact
 17
 19
 17
 19
New England Revolution
 3
 18
 13
 17
New York Red Bulls
 7
 17
 8
 14
Philadelphia Union
 3
 18
 8
 11
Portland Timbers
 3
 18
 4
 14
Real Salt Lake
 1
 3
 1
 1
San Jose Earthquakes
 13
 18
 14
 17
Seattle Sounders
 1
 9
 2
 6
Sporting Kansas City
 2
 5
 2
 3
Toronto FC
 2
 12
 4
 12
Vancouver Whitecaps
 5
 11
 6
 9
  • Only  4 teams have been ranked 1st (Dallas, Houston, Salt Lake, Seattle), only 3 teams have placed last (Chivas, D.C., Montreal) in the weekly average.
  • Only 1 team has been ranked 1st (Salt Lake), and 2 teams last (D.C., Montreal) in the season average.

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