du Nord MLS Hot List for the Month of October 2013

Welcome to the du Nord MLS Hot List for October.

Over the past month only, which teams are playing great, and which teams are not! It's that simple.

The system we are using bases the ranking strictly on current form, looking at results and opponents (and their form) over the past month of games. We give no weight to standings, projections or prior achievement.

Basically its who's movin' up and who's movin' down... right now.
(September ranking in parenthesis)

Observations:
-The big climb over the last two months didn't do San Jose any good in the end. They started their run from too far back.
-Chicago didn't have enough either.
-New England peaked at the right time.
-The month was an anomaly for Toronto. Right?
-Columbus choked on their own vomit.
-Seattle and Colorado both flopped but made the playoffs anyway. They Vikings'd their way in!

1 San Jose Earthquakes(4)
2 New England Revolution(14)
3 New York Red Bulls(1)
4 Portland Timbers(5)
5 Sporting Kansas City(8)
6 Chicago Fire(12)
7 Real Salt Lake(7)
8 Houston Dynamo(9)
9 LA Galaxy(13)
10 Vancouver Whitecaps(10)
11 Philadelphia Union(15)
12 Toronto FC(18)
13 Colorado Rapids(6)
14 Columbus Crew(2)
15 FC Dallas(16)
16 Montreal Impact(11)
17 Seattle Sounders(3)
18 DC United(19)
19 Chivas USA(17)


Biggest Gaines:
New England +12
Chicago +6
Toronto +6

Biggest Falls:
Seattle -14
Columbus -12
Colorado -7