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2008 MLS Pre-Season Collective Power Rankings: Featuring Collectives Within The Collective
2008 MLS Pre-Season Collective Power Rankings: Featuring Collectives Within The Collective
Here comes another first for Center Holds It : Major League Soccer (MLS) Pre-Season Collective Power Rankings. All I do here is take every single posted power ranking of which I’m aware, add up all the numbers for each given team, and then post the average - plus some other data and commentary. The idea is to divine the collective wisdom on MLS’s 14 teams. Does it work? Don’t know. Never ...
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