MLS Weekend Results and Updated SRS Rankings

Given that this was the first weekend of my MLS predictions and given that they were based on only a handful of games for each team, I didn't expect to do real well with them.  It turns out I did worse.  Here is the recap:

D.C United 0 New York 4 (-10 pts)
Colorado 0 Seattle 1 (-10 pts)
San Jose 1 Chivas USA 2 (-10 pts)
Toronto FC 1 Columbus 1 (-10 pts)
Vancouver 1 FC Dallas 2 (-10 pts)
New England 3 Kansas City 2 (-10 pts)
Chicago 1 Houston 1 (-10 pts)
Los Angeles 3 Portland 0 (+10 pts)

Of the eight matches played I only predicted the correct outcome in the LA/Portland match.  I also missed the fact that the Real Salt Lake/Philadelphia match was rescheduled to September 3 due to RSL's upcoming appearance in the CONCACAF Champions League final.  Based on the Barclays "I Know the Score" scoring system I ended up at -60 points for the week.  I expect that these predictions will become more accurate each week as we get more data.

After the jump I will have updated SRS rankings for the league.

Team	MOV	SOS	SRS	Change
Real Salt Lake	1.750	0.256	2.006	0.006
New York	1.167	0.203	1.369	0.519
Philadelphia	0.400	0.464	0.864	0.187
Houston	0.333	0.175	0.508	-0.052
Los Angeles	0.375	0.048	0.423	0.304
Colorado	0.167	0.106	0.272	-0.478
Seattle	0.000	0.255	0.255	0.366
Columbus	0.167	-0.058	0.108	-0.092
New England	-0.143	0.073	-0.070	-0.064
San Jose	-0.500	0.350	-0.150	0.010
D.C. United	-0.500	0.149	-0.351	-0.531
Vancouver	-0.286	-0.169	-0.455	-0.091
Chivas USA	-0.167	-0.297	-0.464	0.129
FC Dallas	-0.167	-0.361	-0.528	0.122
Chicago	-0.500	-0.188	-0.688	0.275
Kansas City	-0.400	-0.293	-0.693	-0.080
Toronto FC	-0.429	-0.348	-0.777	0.031
Portland	-0.667	-0.233	-0.900	-0.320

This early in the season the weekly fluctuations will be quite large.  New York's 4-0 thrashing of D.C. United demonstrates this as each team's rating changed by over half a point.  As the season progresses, these changes will start to smooth out.  Idle RSL remains on top (CONCACAF games are not included in these rankings).  Portland drops to the bottom after their 3-0 loss to LA.