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Grab Bag: Projected points and Oracle standings

RSL has reached the half-way point of the season!

By Kreg Asay
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Real Salt Lake v Vancouver Whitecaps FC Photo by Christopher Morris - Corbis/Getty Images

17 games down and 17 to go! Real Salt Lake has defied all the pundit predictions for 2022, nearly all of them had RSL at the bottom of the West, or at best missing out on the playoffs. It’s not hard to see why, out of all 28 teams in the league we had the lowest total salary budget, finally got new owners late in the off-season, and had no DP’s on the roster.

Picking RSL to fail was the logical choice. Except there was that storybook run in the playoffs... There’s no way that could continue! Oops. Of course we must take this with a grain of salt. Due to the imbalance in MLS scheduling, not all teams have played 17 games. Some of those teams with games in hand could knock RSL down in the standings.

Projected Points

(based on home PPG + away PPG)

Projected Points

TEAM Curr. Pts Home played HPPG Away played APPG H Games left H. Proj. Pts A Games left A. Proj. Pts Proj. Total
TEAM Curr. Pts Home played HPPG Away played APPG H Games left H. Proj. Pts A Games left A. Proj. Pts Proj. Total
Los Angeles FC 33 9 2.22 7 1.86 8 18 10 19 70
Philadelphia Union 29 9 1.89 7 1.71 8 15 10 17 61
Austin FC 28 8 1.88 8 1.63 9 17 9 15 60
Real Salt Lake 29 8 2.5 9 1 9 23 8 8 60
New York FC 27 9 2.22 6 1.17 8 18 11 13 58
FC Dallas 26 8 2 8 1.25 9 18 9 11 55
LA Galaxy 24 8 1.63 7 1.57 9 15 10 16 55
Montreal Impact 26 8 1.88 8 1.38 9 17 9 12 55
Nashville FC 26 6 1.5 11 1.55 11 17 6 9 52
NY Red Bulls 26 8 1.25 9 1.78 9 11 8 14 51
Orlando SC 25 8 1.5 9 1.44 9 14 8 12 51
Seattle Sounders 23 8 2 7 1 9 18 10 10 51
FC Cincinnati 23 7 1.29 9 1.56 10 13 8 12 48
NE Revolution 24 9 1.67 8 1.13 8 13 9 10 47
Vancouver Whitecaps 21 8 1.88 9 0.67 9 17 8 5 43
Houston Dynamo 21 9 1.67 7 0.86 8 13 10 9 43
Atlanta United 19 8 1.88 7 0.57 9 17 10 6 42
Charlotte FC 20 8 2.25 9 0.22 9 20 8 2 42
Inter Miami CF 21 9 1.89 7 0.57 8 15 10 6 42
Columbus Crew 18 7 1.43 8 1 10 14 9 9 41
Colorado Rapids 19 8 2.13 8 0.25 9 19 9 2 40
Portland Timbers 19 8 1.5 9 0.78 9 14 8 6 39
Minnesota United 18 8 1.38 8 0.88 9 12 9 8 38
Toronto FC 18 8 1.88 8 0.38 9 17 9 3 38
San Jose Earthquakes 15 8 1.63 8 0.25 9 15 9 2 32
Sporting Kansas City 16 8 1.38 10 0.5 9 12 7 4 32
Chicago Fire 14 7 1.29 9 0.56 10 13 8 4 31
DC United 14 9 1.11 6 0.67 8 9 11 7 30

For those of you who made Oracle picks at the start of the season, here’s an update!

10 points have already been awarded for those who picked Seattle to win the Champions League, and there are a handful of players still in the running to earn points with the US Open Cup winner. You can track progress at any time on the spreadsheet.

2022 Soapbox Oracle

Player Name Points
Player Name Points
Dave Cheever 88
Mateo 81
Durodo 71
Zach Patterson 69
RSL4LIFE210 69
Man in the Middle 61
Dwillievan 59
Sly 59
TroutHead 59
Ryan S 58
1OldDude 54
SniperSpida677 51
jcrow 50
himysam 50
12RMENDEZ 48
Stu Pedasol 46
Andrew K 46
KBaer14 45
15to32 44
ScooterPie27 42
scheelt 40
Jet 40
VAR got it wrong 40
NOFC 39
KnottyFox 38
Hollywood_17 37
Jared Nethery 37
Chris Johanson 37
I8sumchicken 36
Kreg 36
T-PAIN 35
Jdub 33
Moose 32
Coffee Sludge 32
Zzyzx 32
Seawolf 31
PocoJoe 30
keel 30
mark up! 29
Thomas W 29
bmelini 28
Kolten Yorgason 25
Brandon.Wilde.9 20
Mr. Pepper 19
Its_M3_B3nny 18
Pup 17
Eli Allen 14
svenwheeler 14

Links to both the updated projected points and Oracle standings will be available every week on the Royal Roundup.

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