Even with a fun title like that I must make this a bit quick. Week 16 wasn’t the biggest week for any league games, though I’m sure fans in Salt Lake would disagree. But even with the lack of games going on there were a couple guys that stood out and shined above the others.

Easily the best week went to Chicago’s John Thorrington. His late game-winner at home against Toronto gave voters little doubt about who to pick in this short week. I’ve said before, Thorrington is quickly becoming one of my new favorites in this league. His pace and energy on the field continues to show up. How this guy was nearly cut a while back is amazing too.

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The may be one week that we don’t see a lot of change in the Major League Soccer power rankings. Most clubs were out of action in league play for the week due to US Open Cup and SuperLiga games on the menu. Still some clubs in action made the most of the spotlight.

Some clubs may have dropped a game this week in league play but that might actually not knock them down too much overall here, probably just close the gaps more than anything. While I will try not to use SuperLiga contests and US Open results in these rankings, I can’t help but to have some of them weigh on me a bit this week with the lack of regular season games.

Anyways, let’s get down to business.

1. New England Revolution (33 pts., same) – No need to drop, no one was worthy enough to bump up, plus they played very well in their opener in SuperLiga the other night. I went back and watched most of the game and was very impressed with their showing, usually this isn’t a good international competition club but the Revs came out well.

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