Wasatch Soccer Sentinel

The 2019 NWSL Power Rankings start out with 5 sites participating. Hopefully at least one more will be added in the coming weeks.

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!

Sites Used

• Five Thirty Eight (SPI points)
• Soccer Club Stats (Win League %)
• Backline Soccer
• Reddit/r/NWSL
• RSL Soapbox (Published earlier this week)

You may notice the list includes ‘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).

Team	Wk 21 avg	Wk 22 avg	Wk 23 avg	Best	Worst	St. Dev	2019	2Y Avg
Chicago Red Stars	2.17	2	2	2	2	0	3.488	4.22
Houston Dash	6.83	7	7	7	7	0	6.466	6.72
North Carolina Courage	1	1	1	1	1	0	2.305	1.67
Orlando Pride	8.83	9	9	9	9	0	8.513	6.66
Portland Thorns	3.17	3	3.4	3	4	0.55	2.29	2.71
Seattle Reign	4.5	4	3.6	3	4	0.55	4.689	3.66
Sky Blue	8.17	8	8	8	8	0	8.243	8.41
Utah Royals	4.17	5	5.4	5	6	0.55	4.071	4.6
Washington Spirit	6.17	6	5.6	5	6	0.55	4.778	6.23

• Highest Standard Deviation: North Carolina Courage at 2.7
• Lowest Standard Deviation: Chicago Red Stars at 0.0

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Site	Most Bias VS	Most Bias For	Least Bias
FiveThirtyEight	Utah Royals	North Carolina	Reign
Soccer Club Stats	Reign	Utah Royals	Houston Dash
Backline Soccer	Washington Spirit	Portland Thorns	Houston Dash
Reddit /r/NWSL	Reign	Chicago Red Stars	Houston Dash
RSL Soapbox	Houston Dash	Utah Royals	Orlando Pride
NWSL	NA	NA	NA
Freeborg	North Carolina	Reign	Sky Blue

• Most Accurate: FiveThirtyEight
• Least Accurate: Soccer Club Stats