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Authored by: Cam Homes
on Wednesday, September 02 2009 @ 05:42 pm ACST

Has anybody had a look at the Rugby Union World Ranking system? I believe it could be modified and used to rank the countries playing AFL. I played around with and applied it to the IC competitions and also added some "international" (I believe they were full 18-a --side games) matches that I found on Footy World and the results come out quite well even though there are some problems such as the leading country quickly ended up with a points ranking above 100. Also using the bonus core rating change of X 1.5 for when a country won by more than 15pts was a bit generous and quickly helped the points gaps to blow out. When you compare rugby scores to AFL scores and the fact that there were rather large differences in abilities between the teams in the IC's a larger margin is obviously needed . I tried 40 pts and that helped slow down the Rating gaps.
Obviously that size of the sample of matches is probably too small, a larger sample with more matches with countries with similar abilities would also tend to"level" the playing field and reduce such large jumps in the core rating changes. If there is any body interested I am happy to supply my calculations and willing to hear any other suggestions. Also any one with more results of "Full International (18-a-side games) Matches" between countries from Leagues archives would be most useful in further testing a modified Rugby World Ranking to produce a suitable AFL World Ranking scheme please reply or post a comment.

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