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World Footy Rank = money + home games

Authored by: EU Footy Fan
on Tuesday, September 14 2010 @ 04:13 am ACST

I would suggest that the rankings below about GB* are pretty meaningless. The nature of the game in those countries is such that the team playing in a match tends to be made up of those that can afford the trip. So the final score can have absolutely no resemblance to a rank based expectation, or any indication of future performance, because a completely different set of players will be involved. Even Germany with a strong domestic league has a poor travelling record.
In addition the nature of tournaments (Melbourne '08 or Denmark '10) for example on Finland, travelling with a bare minimum of a squad, is that by the end of the tournament they don't have enough uninjured players to run out and play the last game or two. This leads to quite misleading results in terms of the skill level of the game in each country, and hence the ranking they should have. If there were more home games for some of the lower ranked teams, then their rankings would rapidly rise.
*PS Sorry Canada, Japan, I have no idea what the state of your teams are, so these comments may or may not apply to you.

World Footy Rank = money + home games

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Tuesday, September 14 2010 @ 10:10 am ACST

Personally I won't really argue with that. I had a lot of reservations about doing this system for reasons of lack of matches, lack of availability of players for travelling teams, queries over the model used (I still see some issues although we did modify the model a bit). But in the end there seemed to be a groundswell of support and I suppose things like this have to start somewhere, so we've given it a go and it is what it is. All this feedback is appreciated.

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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

World Footy Rank = money + home games

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Tuesday, September 14 2010 @ 10:20 am ACST

Having said that, I think it currently provides a reasonable indication of where teams are in relative strength. You can make a very strong argument that the top 3 are right, then Ireland are always about the mark, Nauru were very impressive at the last IC, the US have always been one of the stronger nations without quite threatening for the top 3 spots, and South Africa did really well at the last IC but are coming from a long way down.

Next comes Denmark, Samoa and Great Britain and they are a mixed bag, with Samoa's best often very good with talented aggressive athletes, and their worst some mis-directed aggressive footy with a much more of a Rugby look to it. Denmark have had some impressive international form and some disappointments. GB have been more consistent but can only be judged by their form on the field, which slipped a bit at EC2010.

As I said, Canada is probably a bit low due to the number of losses to the US. Sweden had some good recent form, and that just leaves Germany, Japan and Finland. Maybe their order could shuffle a bit amongst themselves but I don't think there is much argument that they should sit any higher on the ladder.

Remember, the greyed out provisional positions are indicative, not accepted positions on the ladder. I thought it would be helpful to show where they are currently notionally sitting, but perhaps I should put them down below (like Cam suggested to me).

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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

World Footy Rank = money + home games

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Tuesday, September 14 2010 @ 11:09 am ACST

Brett, your second comment was a tad quicker than mine. Might just be a better way to show the ranks.
Cam

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

World Footy Rank = money + home games

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Tuesday, September 14 2010 @ 11:11 am ACST

Looks even better if in columns!
Cam

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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