WFN World Rankings post Fiji v Nauru Test Series

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WFN World Rankings post Fiji v Nauru Test Series

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 05:41 am ACDT

Sounds like the Elo system is similar in principle to what we are using. I note on Wikipedia there was the line "concerns over players avoiding competitive play to protect their ratings", so it sounds like it would suffer the same issue ours does that a nation could deliberately or by chance game the system by avoiding higher ranked teams. The pay off is that they could move several spots higher than they deserve, but they would be limited as to how high they could go and of course would be hurting their own development.

At the end of the day I think the only team with reasonable complaint on here would be Denmark. The Danes are down 2 or 3 spots but are so close to those other sides so it's a very near thing, and they suffer from playing Ireland so often. Canada are possibly a little low as they play the US almost every year and despite most people thinking they are of similar strength almost always lose, so that pushes them down.

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