Week 5 SBNhanced MLS Power Rankings
by Martin Shatzer on Apr 27, 2010 10:02 PM EDT
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Print| Team | Total vote count | First Tier votes | Last week's Tier |
| Tier 1 - Teams Contending For Cups | |||
| LA Galaxy | 21 | 7 | 1 |
| KC Wizards | 19 | 5 | 1 |
| Colorado Rapids | 19 | 5 | 2 |
| Columbus Crew | 19 | 5 | 1 |
| NY Red Bulls | 19 | 5 | 1 |
| Tier 2 - Teams Likely in the Playoffs | |||
| Seattle Sounders | 13 | 0 | 2 |
| Chicago Fire | 12 | 0 | 3 |
| Houston Dynamo | 12 | 0 | 2 |
| Tier 3 - Teams On the Outside Looking In | |||
| Real Salt Lake | 9 | 1 | 2 |
| NE Revolution | 7 | 0 | 3 |
| Toronto FC | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| SJ Earthquakes | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| Tier 4 - Teams Competing for #3 Draft Pick | |||
| FC Dallas | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| Chivas USA | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Philadelphia Union | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| DC United | 0 | 0 | 4 |
The big story this week in the power rankings comes from our defending champion Real Salt Lake, who continue to plummet down the rankings and the league standings. This team was 0-3-1 in the month of April , and people are starting to notice. They enter the third tier for the first time in 2010. The one top tier vote for them comes from one of our writers clinging to false hopes of a return to glory, and no it didn't come from Denz.
Another interesting development this week is Seattle maintaining its place at the top of the second tier despite earning only one point in two matches this week. I think that's a testament to a general consensus that scheduling two road matches in opposite corners of the continent in the same week is probably not a statistically significant occurance. Chicago gets to move up thanks to their two straight wins in their new formation.
As for the rest of the rankings, not too many surprises. LA once again sweeps the #1 vote for all 7 bloggers. Four teams earning exactly 5 first tier votes and 2 second tier votes is pretty rare. Do people forget that Columbus is still quietly undefeated? Dallas and Toronto swap places based on their respective results against the Sounders. The Toronto DeRos rolled while FCD remains winless.
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These are fair at the moment. RSL will bounce back once they don’t have a constant slew of games against MLS’s better teams. That said, they do have to beat those quality teams sometime, so they deserve to fall for the time being.
Maybe the one change I would make is to move San Jose above New England. Without Joseph, the Revs are going to suck. Even we outplayed them for most of the game.
Specific places don't really matter
Is San Jose good enough that you think they will likely make the Playoffs, or LIkely miss?
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I’ll admit that they’re better than I thought they’d be, but I don’t see them finishing better than 6th in the West (behind LA, RSL, Seattle, Colorado, and Houston). The East is probably going to qualify 3 teams, so even if the Quakes continue playing above themselves, there just isn’t room in the playoffs for them.
I’m still waiting for things to start to go wrong for them. Andre Luiz’s knee issues expose the fact that Sanchez doesn’t really fit MLS, and they still rely way too much on Ryan Johnson to score their goals. They’re doing well given their squad right now, but that form is not going to last.
by ChestRockwell on Apr 28, 2010 6:15 AM EDT up reply actions
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