Roll on, Oblivion

Okay, ratings starting to come together again. Still a group of teams lagging a bit at 3 games, which is throwing off the comparison somewhat, but I think it's starting to gel nicely. Columbus may feel a little hard done actually losing points even though they won, but no ranking drop, and its hard to argue the other teams don't belong up there as well.

Full table. Click to embiggen.

LA still flying high and Montreal is making their case. Chicago stuck down in the basement, and look at little Chivas go. GO CHIVAS, GO!

Seattle and New York still with plenty of time to figure it out, but definitely not how they wanted to start the season. And who thought Philly would get it together after their three goal first half meltdown against SKC?

Edit - And, what the hell, never too early in the season for a graph, right? As always, click for pops.

SHFR trends for the first four week. Note that the y axis is a log. LA's high rating makes a linear chart hard to read. Should clear up in a few weeks once LA levels out a bit (assuming they lose a game or two...).

All good things

The results are in and I've put the digital gerbils to work. Some people probaly aren't going to like that this week we have a losing team advancing in the rankings, but I would point out that even if their ranking increase, they still lost points from their rating. No one else made up enough ground to cover the gap, is all. I'm speaking, of course, of San Jose taking over the #1 spot, with SKC falling to #2. Here's the full power rankings and ratings, with a this week/last week breakdown.

Team	Rank	Change	Rating	Change
San Jose	1	+1	4.900	- 0.567
Kansas City	2	-1	5.000	- 1.222
Seattle	3		5.900	+ 0.544
Salt Lake City	4		7.100	+ 0.233
New York	5		7.900	+ 0.433
Vancouver	6		8.600	+ 0.400
DC	7		8.900	+ 0.656
Colorado	8	+1	10.200	+ 0.356
Chicago	9	-1	10.400	+ 0.156
Houston	10		11.200	- 0.644
Dallas	11		12.100	- 0.767
LA	12		12.400	- 0.622
Columbus	13		12.500	- 0.056
Philadelphia	14	+1	13.100	+ 0.456
Chivas	15	-1	13.500	- 0.722
Montreal	16	+2	14.400	+ 1.378
Portland	17	-1	14.400	+ 0.044
New England	18	-1	15.000	+ 0.000
Toronto	19		19.700	- 0.144

So, with that, congrats to San Jose. I'm really starting to wonder when Wondolowski will get another chance at the US nats as well, he's completely tearing it up out there. Also Toronto is awful. Just awful. More like Torontolololo.