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FIFA world ranking released.

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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Yay! Up another place! Jeez, Brazil really wiped the board though in terms of points, fs.....


  • #3
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    This weeks top mover *cue cheesey TOTP music*
    Is Bhutan with a convincing 4-0 they move up 5 places.

    :)

    Kdja


  • #4
    EvilGeorge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 875 ✭✭✭EvilGeorge


    At least we haven't gone backwards - role on the euro championships!!


  • #5
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Its good to see.

    Theres a lot of really good teams ranked below us in that list.


  • #6
    EvilGeorge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 875 ✭✭✭EvilGeorge


    I have to say after their world cup performance I thought we would have seen France go much lower down the table - must have had a lot of good games before.
    But well done Brazil.


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  • #7
    Clintons Cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Clintons Cat


    anyone else taken a look at the way the points are allocated?

    http://www.fifa.com/rank/procedures_E.html

    it starts nice and simple then hits you with this
    From the table it can be seen that in the case of a 3:1 win, team A is allocated a total of 21.0 points. But as the more highly ranked team, the win itself only earns 17.4 of these. The lower-rated team B still earns 1.7 points. Had the "weaker" team B won the match 3:1, they would have received 27.4 points, while the then negative total for team A would have been rounded up to 0.00. For a 2:2 draw, team B would have earned a few points more than A, for being the lower-rated team.

    When the difference in strength between the two teams is less, so also will be the difference in points allocation. The following table illustrates how the points would be divided following the same results as above, but with two roughly equally ranked teams, B and C, being involved:


  • #8
    simon_partridge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭simon_partridge


    From the webpage:
    Senegal’s surprise performances give them an astounding 11-place boost up the table, making them the third-best African team in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, behind the well-established powers of Cameroon and Nigeria.
    I think Senegal should be higher even than this - they were deemed by many to be the most exciting and the best team of the African nations cup (they lost the final on penalties only), and their world cup record speaks for itself.

    That said, it's a bit of a boost to Ireland that a team we roundly out-performed in our group is considered a "power"!


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