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Status quo maintained in men's World Rankings

  • Friday, August 10 2018 @ 02:55 pm ACST
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The recent tour of Ireland by the USA Revolution national team in playing two #International Tests against the Irish Warriors has had only limited ramifications as far as the World Footy News World Rankings are concerned. Because Ireland received 3.00 *Home Advantage Rating Points the Rating Gap for both matches (Ireland won both) was +/-10.29^ and therefore No Advantage was gained or lost by either nation.

 For international footy fans new to WFN World Rankings see below for the relevant rules.

 *To reflect home ground / country advantage the home team has 3 ranking points added to their total for the purposes of the points exchange calculation. This is applied to one off or two team series, it generally is not applied to tournaments with multiple teams, as the home ground advantage is often diminished as teams experience neutral games, often stay for extended periods and the home side often has a heavy burden in organisation.

^A team more than 10 ranking points ahead of their opponent is simply defending their points, they cannot win any more from that match.

 # For matches played since IC2017, games must have been at least 16-a-side and all players on each team be nationals are deemed to be International Matches

Player’s eligibility criteria met, confirmed by Lily Beck at AFL Europe.

The only change at all to the Ranking Scheme is the addition of two matches to USA and Ireland’s total Matches Played tally. Ireland up to 61 & USA  to 50

Ireland 56.64 + 3.00 home advantage = 59.64 Rating Points

USA = 49.34 Rating Points

Rating Gap = +/- 10.30 

World Footy News Australian Football Men's World Rankings

(as at end of 10th August 2018)

 

Rank        Team Points Games Rank Change
1 Australia -  0 steady
2 Papua New Guinea 61.99 39 steady
3 New Zealand 57.88 43 steady
4 Ireland 56.64 61 steady
5 Nauru 52.97 32 steady
6 United States 49.34 50 steady
7 Croatia 47.09 13 steady
8 South Africa 46.61 32 steady
9 Great Britain 46.23 64 steady
10 Canada 45.84 48 steady
11 Denmark 43.67 47 steady
12 Tonga 41.93 14 steady
13 China 39.91 25 steady
14 Fiji 38.01 19 steady
15 Germany 37.55 25 steady
16 Peace Team 36.46 11 steady
17 France 36.09 18 steady
18 Japan 35.06 34 steady
19 Sweden 34.18 39 steady
20 Indonesia 30.94 12 steady
21 Pakistan 29.14 10 steady
22 Finland 27.45 18 steady
23 India 20.71 21 steady
Prov. Sri Lanka 37.41 5 *
           
Prov. Indochina 34.00 2 *
Prov. Timor-Leste 27.40 6 *

 

* Nations marked in grey with an asterisk have played less than eight (8) matches under our criteria, and currently hold provisional ranking points, but are not yet officially ranked.