Wasatch Soccer Sentinel

We are now mere hours away from kickoff for the first games of the 2020 MLS season. The league is now up to 26 teams which makes for a long table to keep track of. As of now, it’s unknown how many sites will be doing Power Rankings this year, but seven sites published preseason rankings. So without further ado, here’s the table as 2020 starts.

Pre	Wk 1	Team	Preseason	Wk 1 avg	Best	Worst	St. Dev	2020	S.Best	S.Worst
3	3	Atlanta United FC	2.78	4.33
20	22	Chicago Fire	18.56	20
18	12	Colorado Rapids	17.78	12.58
14	8	Columbus Crew SC	13.11	8.33
11	19	D.C. United	12.22	17.67
26	26	FC Cincinnati	25.67	25.33
9	5	FC Dallas	11.11	6.83
21	20	Houston Dynamo	20.33	18.17
19	21	Inter Miami CF	18.44	18.67
1	1	Los Angeles FC	1.22	1.5
6	9	Los Angeles Galaxy	6.56	9.92
10	4	Minnesota United FC	11.67	5.33
22	15	Montreal Impact	21	15.5
25	24	Nashville SC	24.11	23.67
12	17	New England Revolution	12.33	17.08
4	6	New York City FC	4	7.33
14	10	New York RB	13.11	10.42
23	23	Orlando City SC	22.56	20.17
7	13	Philadelphia Union	8.11	13.5
8	18	Portland Timbers	9.78	17.25
13	14	Real Salt Lake	12.78	14.5
17	16	San Jose Earthquakes	17	16.58
2	2	Seattle Sounders FC	2.22	2.08
16	11	Sporting Kansas City	16.56	11.33
5	7	Toronto FC	4.78	7.83
24	25	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	23.44	24.25

Season best/worst will begin tracking after week 1.

Both Los Angeles FC and FC Cincinnati start the season where they ended, bookends in first and last. The two new teams, Inter Miami CF and Nashville SC start low on the table as is typical for most unknown expansion teams.

Week 1 ranks don’t always follow the preseason ones, so don’t be surprised with some significant changes next week.