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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.