We are nearing the quarter pole of the 2018 MLS regular season as after this week everyone will have played at least 8 matches. Atlanta, unbeaten in their last nine (8 wins, 1 draw), is beginning to separate from the pack. Portland appears to be putting their bad start firmly in the rear view mirror with a 3 game winning streak (for only the 4th time in their MLS history), and Toronto, now able to focus solely on league play is beginning what they hope will be a long climb back up from the bottom of the table.
As always, a quick reminder of how I arrive at these rankings:
The SFPI has two main Components, “Performance Score,” which is determined 100% by on-field results, and “Strength of Schedule” which takes the average Performance Score of all of a team’s opponents to date, with a mechanism to account for games on the road.