Final World Rankings prior to IC11

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Final World Rankings prior to IC11

Authored by: Rog
on Tuesday, June 21 2011 @ 06:18 pm ACST

I think "lightning" games if played should still count towards the world raknings (maybe at a reduced weighting). The higher ranked ie. better teams should still beat worse teams no matter how long the game is. Shorter games are still a indicator of teams relative strengths and seeing that it is at the IC11, these lightning games are much more important than any friendly played over a longer period.

Even though i disagree with some aspects of the ranking system based on the IRB system, i still think it is fairly accurate for the data (results) so far. I developed my own ranking system based on the Elo ranking system addressing some of my issues with the Worldfootynews rankings and the positions of the countries are still fairly similar.

Rankings from my Elo system for interest. I excluded Australia and have included teams given a provisional rating by WFN. I agree Canada, Japan and maybe even Finland are actually stronger then their rank suggests, but the havn't really ever won many games.

Rank Country Points (1 PNG 1277.7 (2 New Zealand 1239.6 (3 Ireland 1164 (4 USA 1086.4 (5 Nauru 1033 (6 South Africa 1027.7 (7 Denmark 995 (8 Samoa 983.4 (9 Great Britain 931.9 (10 Croatia 928 (11 Germany 924.3 (12 Canada 920.8 (13 Peace Team 911.2 (14 Sweden 908.2 (15 Tonga 892.2 (16 Iceland 872.5 (17 Japan 852.2 (18 Spain 847.3 (19 China 840.3 (20 India 787.4 (21 France 784.9 (22 Finland 775.2

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