Mls And Espn Power Rankings

[NYCFCFan10]

MLSsoccer.com:
1. Seattle (up from 3)
2. Los Angeles (down from 1)
3. Toronto (up from 7)
4. Dallas (up from 6)
5. Columbus (down from 4)
6. Salt Lake (up from 9)
7. Kansas City (up from 8)
8. Washington DC (up from 10)
9. New England (down from 2)
10. New Jersey (up from 11)
11. Vancouver (down from 5)
12. Portland (up from 15)
13. Houston (up from 14)
14. Orlando (down from 12)
15. Montreal (up from 16)
16. New York (down from 13)
17. Philadelphia (17)
18. San Jose (up from 19)
19. Colorado (up from 20)
20. Chicago (down from 18)

ESPN.com:
1. Seattle (+1)
2. Los Angeles (+1)
3. Toronto (+3)
4. Washington DC (+3)
5. New England (-4)
6. Kansas City (-2)
7. Dallas (+2)
8. Salt Lake (No change)
9. Houston (+2)
10. Columbus (-5)
11. New Jersey (+2)
12. Portland (No change)
13. Vancouver (-3)
14. Colorado (+6)
15. Philadelphia (-1)
16. New York (+2)
17. Orlando (No change)
18. Montreal (No change)
19. San Jose (No change)
20. Chicago (-5)

ESPN got it right but MLSsoccer, what are they thinking?

We went into Orlando's house, scored a goal in front of 62,000 of their fans, they needed a miracle deflection to steal a point at the last second and MLSsoccer thinks we deserve to fall further behind Orlando? Are they out of their minds?

 

[BxLio91]

And if they were including preseason, we beat the battery and crystal meth sc lost. It's clearly pandering.

 

[Drainyoo]

Could it just be that MLS has a shitty ranking formula?

 

[MikeDatTiger]

Ok, in the MLS poll we got passed by Houston (admittedly solid win over a top East team, even if helped by Deric awesomeness), Portland who scored no goals at home after being hilariously pwned by Nick Rimando, and Montreal, who just lost Justin Mapp and lost to DC. Yeah, sure guys.

 

[NYCFCFan10]

Could it just be that MLS has a shitty ranking formula?

There's writers in their office that don't like NYCFC...

 

[Z4CH3B99]

There's writers in their office that don't like NYCFC...

Clearly…

 

[BxLio91]

There's writers in their office that don't like NYCFC...

Them and a whole lot of "media" guys.

 

[Goodfella]

ahem...

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/07/19/mls-power-rankings-week-19-nycfc-jump-top-five-nyderby

 

[mgarbowski]

Sports Illustrated hasn't redone its power ranking in six weeks, and NYCFC jumped from 18 to 3.
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/201...-week-19-nycfc-ola-kamara-international-break

 

[Ulrich]

Sports Illustrated hasn't redone its power ranking in six weeks, and NYCFC jumped from 18 to 3.
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/201...-week-19-nycfc-ola-kamara-international-break

That's some serious laziness. And how can Dallas not be #1 ???

 

[adam]

Sports Illustrated hasn't redone its power ranking in six weeks, and NYCFC jumped from 18 to 3.
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/201...-week-19-nycfc-ola-kamara-international-break

Powers rankings are BS pseudo-science for lazy journalists to get an article out once a week. But to be so lazy that it takes 6 weeks to shuffle the teams around and write a few quick blurbs?? And meaningless rankings are not, if you jump something from 18 to 3 when there are only 20 options, it's an clear indictment of your methodology.

 

[LionNYC]

Sports Illustrated hasn't redone its power ranking in six weeks, and NYCFC jumped from 18 to 3.
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/201...-week-19-nycfc-ola-kamara-international-break

You'd think the magazine with Grant Wahl would more frequently update this

 

[mgarbowski]

That's some serious laziness.

But to be so lazy that it takes 6 weeks to shuffle the teams around and write a few quick blurbs??

You'd think the magazine with Grant Wahl would more frequently update this

The article explains why they didn't update for 6 weeks. It's not laziness but it probably is an editor's unwillingness to have his writers devote more than a limited amount of time to soccer.

 

[Gotham Gator]

SI basically ignored MLS while the international tournaments were going on, and basically continues to do so while its writers vacation.