MLS Team $ Update

The Major League Soccer Player's Union released updated salary figures through October 1st 2012. Below is how each team looks based on Guaranteed Salaries (highest to lowest).

Team : Guaranteed Salary

NYR : 16,728,108
LAG : 12,718,531
TFC : 7,446,624
DAL : 5,286,674
VAN : 5,216,755
MTL : 4,751,370
POR : 4,369,036
SEA : 4,224,311
CHI : 4,145,876
DCU : 4,050,727

CLB : 3,717,509 (Sleeping Dogs, yessir)

RSL : 3,581,445
CHV : 3,572,342
COL : 3,381,886
PHI : 3,356,310
HOU : 3,294,092
SKC : 3,226,599
SJE : 3,174,896
NER : 2,639,981

----------------
Lots to dig into after the season, but how about we look at that as compared to rank on the league table (example: San Jose is 17th in salary yet 1st on the table).

+17 : San Jose
+15 : Sporting KC
+07 : Real Salt Lake
+07 : Houston
+05 : Chicago
+04 : D.C.

+02 : New England
+01 : Seattle
+01 : Philadelphia
+01 : Columbus (Nneka, Sleeping Dogs, already)
-01 : Colorado
-02 : New York

-05 : Chivas USA
-06 : Montreal
-06 : Los Angeles
-06 : Vancouver

-09 : FC Dallas
-09 : Portland
-16 : Toronto FC

----------------
What's interesting to me is that cities around soccer playing hotbeds do well in out performing contracts. Plenty (plentiful) of new /slash/ cheap American talent to fill rosters in certain areas? I consider talent heavy soccer states to be: CA, OH, MO (midwest), TX, Mid-Atlantic States (VA, MD, PA).

Oddball is Real Salt Lake up there. Wonder what they have cooking, I'll take a look some other time.

I always use "guaranteed" salary over "base". Salaries are posted like this in attempt to hide in plain sight. Never discount the obvious, always question why.