PDO: Major League Soccer Table 7/12/13

We had a light introduction of the statistic of PDO last evening, and as promised, here is the corresponding table as it exists for Major League Soccer.

Team	Games	PPG	TSR	PDO
New England Rev.	17	1.41	0.497	1101
Portland Timbers	18	1.67	0.530	1100
Seattle Sounders FC	16	1.50	0.469	1071
FC Dallas	19	1.63	0.474	1060
Real Salt Lake	19	1.79	0.569	1049
Montreal Impact	17	1.82	0.522	1039
New York Red Bulls	19	1.47	0.480	1039
Houston Dynamo	18	1.44	0.493	1034
Vancouver Whitecaps	18	1.61	0.525	1016
Colorado Rapids	20	1.35	0.497	1016
Columbus Crew	19	1.21	0.489	1012
Philadelphia Union	19	1.42	0.520	975
L.A. Galaxy	19	1.58	0.594	967
Sporting Kansas City	19	1.58	0.603	965
San Jose Earthquakes	20	1.05	0.432	945
Toronto FC	17	0.76	0.460	940
CD Chivas USA	18	0.78	0.384	937
Chicago Fire	17	1.24	0.551	864
DC United	19	0.53	0.382	802

If you're trying to figure out what to look at, there are a couple of things that may, possibly, jump out at you. The first being the New England Revolution sandwiched between the two best teams in MLS, Portland and Montreal. Admittedly, the club has been on a sort of hot streak but it a large percentage of their PDO comes from the lack of goals they've conceded. Opposing clubs have the worst conversion rate of Goals/Shots against New England.

Similarly, you see Sporting Kansas City sitting 15th in PDO and can't help but be a little bit scared of what could come in the second half should there be positive regression. Considering all the head scratching that the media and supporters have concerning Seattle's early exploits, Sporting has gone largely unnoticed with an underwhelming start. Yet, the TSR (explanation linked--we'll get into this more down the road) is very much there and so are the points. An interesting out come for a club that (deservedly) had the hype machine cranked to full.

Oh, and DC United is definitely still a combination bad and unlucky. Sorry, Drew.