MLS Power Ranking Averages - Week 12
16 sites published,
16 of 19 sites publishing, the 2-week perfect streak ends.
Now on to the rankings. As always, if you come across a site that I’ve not included please send me their link!
Sites Used
- Jeff Sagarin’s MLS Rankings (total rating)
- Five Thirty Eight (predicted season points)
- Massey Rankings
- ESPN
- Soccer America
- MLS
- MLS Fantasy Boss - No ranking Wk 12
- Reddit MLS
- The Mane Land
- Philly Soccer Page
- MLS Fix - No ranking Wk 12
- The Score
- MLS Multiplex
- Dallas News
- Pro Soccer USA - No ranking Wk 12
- Who Scored (statistics rating)
- Stumptown Footy
- Soccer By Ives
You may notice the list includes several ‘analytic’ sites; they serve to function as a stable counterbalance to the rest which are based more on personal opinions, and those done by ‘team’ blogs’. There are also included sites that some will argue are really ‘prediction rankings’ - but in reality isn’t that what a Power Ranking is (see the quote at the top).
All the averages use the Olympic method (I.E. Truncated Mean value) of dropping the highest and lowest scores, and then averaging the rest to reduce bias.
- Highest Standard Deviation: Toronto FC at 4.19.
- Lowest Standard Deviation: Montreal Impact at 1.11
- Biggest Rise: LA Galaxy -4
- Biggest Fall: Chicago Fire +3
- Best of the week: MLS with 14 exact matches.
- Worst of the week: Reddit’s Monkey Power Rankings now with only 5 off by 6+ (held steady from last week), but for the more ‘standard’ sites Who Scored had 2 off by 6+, and 3 off by 5.
Site Bias
This table shows how far each team is from average listed by site. Negatives are better (higher on table), positives are worse (lower on table) than the season average from all sites. The further off a site is for each team may indicate how strongly biased they are. Most bias for/against for each site is included in the table.