Crew SC Take Inside Track

Last night's Crew SC victory over slumping DC United puts them second in the East and 6th overall with 1.57 PPG. It's a turning into a tighter than expected race at the top of the East table between three hot teams in Columbus, NY Red Bulls and New England.

Columbus has been bouncing around 7-11th on the overall table for most of the season. It's taken a red hot streak of 13 pts in 6 games to get them here. The only caution to this fantastic run would be the paltry +1 goal difference they have amassed in that time. What that indicates is that lady luck may have been in their corner for this stretch and, uh... gentleman(?) regression may be on the way.

Other teams on good runs are NE Revs (13pts, +6), NY Red Bulls (12 pts, +7) and Seattle Sounders (13 pts +7) highlight how sort of strange the Columbus +1 goal difference is.

Here is the full true table [UPDATE: NYRB won today taking them to 1.71 PPG, top of the league. Leaving this table as a snapshot thought, might be as high as Crew SC get].

Conf	Pts pGM	GD pGM	Team	P
West	1.68	0.25	FC Dallas	28
East	1.67	0.56	New York Red Bulls	27
West	1.66	0.31	Vancouver Whitecaps	29
West	1.57	0.18	Sporting Kansas City	28
West	1.57	0.43	L.A. Galaxy	30
East	1.57	0.00	Columbus Crew	30
East	1.53	0.07	New England Rev.	30
West	1.50	0.20	Seattle Sounders FC	30
East	1.50	0.00	DC United	30
West	1.46	-0.11	Portland Timbers	28
East	1.38	-0.03	Toronto FC	29
West	1.33	0.03	San Jose Earthquakes	30
East	1.33	0.00	Montreal Impact	27
West	1.31	-0.21	Real Salt Lake	29
West	1.25	-0.04	Houston Dynamo	28
West	1.17	-0.21	Colorado Rapids	29
East	1.17	-0.47	Orlando City	30
East	1.13	-0.20	New York City FC	30
East	1.03	-0.38	Philadelphia Union	29
East	0.93	-0.34	Chicago Fire	29