With the preseason games completed and the start of the MLS regular season just days away, predictions as to how the league’s 23 teams will finish 2018 are beginning to make the rounds. One of the most analytical of these forecasts shows no love for the San Jose Earthquakes, while another preview has the Quakes has the number one team in the land. So, what gives?
Along with dishing out weekly Power Rankings to an ever hungry audience of MLS fans, those in the analysis business like to provide a smorgasbord of preseason predictions as to how the final conference standings will appear.