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We were very tempted to run this piece with the world champion United States women's national team in all 20 spots because we are really excited about that. I'm not sure what we would have said for the comment portion, or points, or really most of the sections in the table below, but mostly we still wanted to run actual MLS power rankings whether or not we're still having a USWNT victory party.
It was a weird week around MLS even by the league's standards. There were two different 4-0 beatdowns, a terrible team beating the best points-per-game side in MLS, and the teams in the East generally fell all over themselves. Well, that last part isn't that weird, but the rest of it is. So without further adieu, here's how it all shook out when the weirdness stopped:
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Rank
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Team
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LW
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Points
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GP
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Comment
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1
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4
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31
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21
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Old Money threw nouveau-riche TFC into the garbage can.
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2
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1
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35
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21
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Very very nearly got a draw despite playing with 10 for over an hour in Seattle on short rest, but it's still a loss.
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3
|
|
6
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29
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18
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Clobbered the Revs, but that doesn't mean what it used to. Behind United because I expect DCU to get a result in Texas next week.
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4
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5
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31
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19
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Paper-thin in several spots, but they've been in good form for weeks now.
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5
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2
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32
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19
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I don't care about their altitude advantage. You don't lose to Colorado.
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6
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3
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25
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17
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Narrow loss in Portland while LA and Dallas went off = a steep drop.
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7
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8
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32
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19
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Made easy work of Colorado.
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|
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8
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7
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27
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16
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Didn't play while most of the teams around them won, so they drop a spot.
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9
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9
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24
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18
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Probably unfair that they won and stay in place, but they're not better than anyone in the top 8.
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10
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10
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23
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17
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Maybe I'm just bad at power rankings. NYRB loses to the Crew, but results below them make it hard to argue that they're worse than 10th.
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11
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11
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23
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19
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Held to a draw by 10-man Orlando, but like the teams on either side of them it's hard to drop them into the muck of the bottom 8.
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12
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14
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21
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18
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A weird set of results around them sees the Dynamo somehow end up higher despite a home draw against Chicago.
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13
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16
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24
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18
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I should be punishing them for a draw at home against the Fire, but I can't see moving anyone below them up this high.
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14
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18
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20
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18
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Won a kinda-sorta must-win in Montreal thanks to David Villa. Possibly a one-spot bonus for Thomas McNamara.
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15
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12
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23
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16
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Ripped to shreds by the Galaxy.
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|
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16
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13
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24
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20
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Demolished in Dallas. When was the last time the Revs were any good?
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17
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19
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18
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18
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Mastroeni reverts to weird tinkering, and it actually works against a good Whitecaps team? MLS gonna MLS.
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18
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15
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19
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19
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Didn't play in MLS, and we don't count Open Cup matches here, so doop drops.
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|
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19
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20
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15
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16
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A draw in Houston is a decent result, but the other awful teams managed to win.
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20
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17
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18
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15
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Done in by David Villa at home. I feel so bad for Nacho Piatti.
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