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Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - other countries to consider

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Saturday, February 13 2010 @ 02:16 am ACDT

Thanks for your efforts there Cam - obviously a lot of time has gone into it.

We did canvas a lot of the issues you discuss but I guess we came to the opposite conclusion. You're saying a list must be based on fixed tight applied criteria and results leading to very few games counting, and it comes up with a list that doesn't really indicate where countries stand, but offers the hope that it pushes them to play games under the rules established by the list.

But in the short to medium term they just won't do that. Many prefer or can only play 9s, and extending to include matches older than 2 or 3 years doesn't really have much meaning, and you do have to be very careful which games get included - a team named as a national side might not be widely recognised as such and may not be as strong.

So we decided that the only practical solution was to set a more generous criteria, but then more rigorously make sure it was met before including a game, and then given the sparse nature of the data, make sensible extrapolations. Then with all that in our heads, have a vote amongst our staff who follow the scene fairly closely.

To me, it's the most exhaustive and realistic list. We don't claim it to be official - none exists and can't really because of the reasons you list and all the issues we discussed in the stories leading up to the final results. But I reckon ours serves as a pretty reasonable unofficial guide. If someone says, who are the best countries in the world, pointing them at our list will answer their question.

Since this has been raised, and given the sparse data for 2009, would people like to see an end of 2009 list or should we let 2008 remain through until the end of 2010, and await IC2011 for an update?

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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