Sounders tenaciously cling to first, Toronto bottom out. Rankings do not include midweek games!
14 sites published rankings for week 11. Three sites are now on drop warning as they have not updated since Wk 6. One new site has been added - Club and Country, and their ratings for previous weeks have been updated.
As always, if you know of a site I have not used please let me know in the comments and I’ll look into adding it to the list!
You may notice the inclusion of ‘analytic’ sites; they serve to function as a ‘control group’ to the rest which are based on personal opinions. There are also sites included that some will argue are ‘prediction rankings’ - but that also is a form of Power Ranking is (see the quote at the top) since it uses algorithms to calculate a team’s likely final position.
Bias for or against certain teams are sometimes an unfortunate feature of power rankings. It can be based on their analytic formula, or the raters preference. In some cases the bias can become extreme - If you feel the ratings are wrong for a specific site I invite you to contact them regarding it.
I will typically only remove sites for two reasons.
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.
The full spreadsheeet is here.
All sites are going to have bias, whether conscious (blogs) or due to analytic calculation (based on past performance). This section lets you see the extent that sites are biased for/against teams. Negative totals (-) are bias FOR, positive numbers (+) are bias AGAINST.
