Updated Helltown Ratings

13.2% of the MLS season is complete, which means it's time to update my player ratings (on the right-hand side of the desktop version of this site). First up are my team rankings so far. It's based on individual player ranking.

Overall	Team	D	F	GK	MF
100	Atlanta	100	82	99	96
91	FC Dallas	91	79	67	92
91	Sporting KC	97	66	84	94
89	Portland	79	74	97	94
88	New York City FC	79	64	93	100
86	Orlando City SC	78	100	90	76
86	San Jose	98	71	83	80
86	Columbus	73	68	94	97
82	Toronto FC	86	70	62	81
80	Houston	91	55	100	79
74	New England	76	55	77	73
73	Colorado	78	56	56	73
73	Seattle	65	67	81	73
65	Philadelphia	63	49	65	67
64	New York	61	53	56	65
64	Chicago	76	56	76	52
62	Montreal	61	45	70	66
61	D.C.	65	47	68	59
58	Vancouver	60	57	39	58
52	Los Angeles	52	32	44	62
50	Real Salt Lake	50	41	42	51
41	Minnesota	39	7	28	48

And here are my top 20 players so far:

Player Score	Player Name	(TEAM)	Pos
10.00	Erick Torres	Houston	F
9.64	Diego Valeri	Portland	MF
9.64	Fanendo Adi	Portland	F
9.34	Alex	Houston	MF
9.23	David Villa	New York City FC	F
8.96	Yamil Asad	Atlanta	F
8.89	Cyle Larin	Orlando City SC	F
8.80	Josef Martínez	Atlanta	F
8.54	Maximiliano Moralez	New York City FC	MF
8.54	Justin Meram	Columbus	MF
8.41	Miguel Almirón	Atlanta	MF
8.28	Gregory Garza	Atlanta	D
8.24	Federico Higuain	Columbus	MF
8.23	Diego Chara	Portland	MF
8.23	Lawrence Olum	Portland	D
8.18	Tyrone Mears	Atlanta	D
8.14	Ola Kamara	Columbus	F
8.12	Héctor Villalba	Atlanta	F
8.11	Sebastián Blanco	Portland	MF
8.10	Alvas Powell	Portland	D

There has been a change the last couple years in MLS. Defending has changed. I'm not sure if it is the fact that defending is just not as good (less investment in that area) or if tracking has changed (STATS, inc). Either way, My formula has not changed since 2011. It has served me well.

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Of note for Crew SC fans - Justin Meram and Higuain popping up here is a good thing (along with the above average team grade). The team never really got off off the ground last year. Good start this year.