Week 9 is done; LAFC opened up Banc of California Stadium in dramatic fashion, beating Seattle on a free kick in stoppage time to earn their second 1-0 victory over the 2 time defending Western Conference Champions, and the last unbeaten team in MLS fell as FC Dallas lost at NYC.
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 the 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.