SFPI MLS Week 20 Power Rankings

Apologies for the delay in getting this out, I was trying to make some changes to how the strength of schedule was calculated to account for road games, I tried a couple different methods and neither really left me satisfied. My first (and the one that seemed the most straightforward) was to simply multiply the performance scores of road opponents by 1.2 to create a 20% increase in difficulty of the match, but the problem I ran into is that there are a four teams that currently have a performance score of 0 or less meaning that playing that team on the road (which is still harder to do than playing them at home) would count AGAINST your SoS more than playing them at home would. My second thought was to simply add a set value to each road match thus negating the previous issue, however what that did was that it assigned the same extra difficulty to playing a team that is really good at home, like Houston (who is unbeaten at home) and one that is very bad, like LA (who is 1W-6L-3D at home) when it is obvious that it is harder to play at BBVA Compass Stadium than it is to play at StubHub this year.

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