Football Champions

Here’s this week’s installment of my list of three lists. I’m tossing the coaches list back onto the pile this week.

Top Three Teams:

1. Kansas City Wizards (adjusted scariness 2.74—knocking off the Revolution and the Red Bulls is pretty good)


2. New York Red Bulls (adjusted scariness 2.62—they dropped a game to KC, but not by much)


3. Toronto (adjusted scariness 2.15—They’ve gotten some great results over the last 5 weeks, we’ll see how good they really are this week when New York comes to play)

Bottom Three Teams:

1. Columbus Crew (adjusted scariness – 0.12— winless in their last five games, and they’re the only team with a negative adjusted scariness score)


2. Chicago Fire (adjusted scariness 1.00—they finally got a win, but it was against Columbus)


3. Real Salt Lake (adjusted scariness 1.46— they’ve proved that they can hold strong teams scoreless, but they really need a win)

Three Coaches on the Hot Seat

1. Columbus Crew— Sigi Schmid (How much longer will he hang on?)


2. Chicago Fire — Dave Sarachan (He’s probably got at least a couple of games after Blanco arrives, but how much longer?)


3. Chivas USA — Preki (The crowds are down and they’ve only been able to beat the Seattle Sounders and FC Dallas in the last month — it doesn’t look good.)

I’ve listed the adjusted scariness rating for each team in the first two lists.