Guest Jeffery S. Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 We do not move in Fifa rankings in spite of getting three more points, perhaps for scoring in Spain. We remain at 84. http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/index/0,2548,109508,00.html?articleid=109508 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youllneverwalkalone Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 We still haven't gotten sweet **** all for beating Cuba. How heavily is the latter end of the past 8 years weighted? Maybe we'll get some point for the 2000 Gold Cup soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juby Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 the thing that always confuses me about ranking is that a loss is a loss, like if we lost to say algeria by 1 goal it would be the same as losing to spain by one goal, shouldn't the team you lost to ranking come into play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOareaFan Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Juby the thing that always confuses me about ranking is that a loss is a loss, like if we lost to say algeria by 1 goal it would be the same as losing to spain by one goal, shouldn't the team you lost to ranking come into play? I always thought it did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piltdownman Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 No the way the ratings work the bigger the difference in raking points more points you get from the game Results from Spain game: Each game starts with twenty points, spain gets all twenty because they won. Spain: 20 Canada : 0 But now this is where it gets tricky. Canada being the lower ranked team gets the difference in fifa ranking points divided by 50 added to their score. While Spain being higher ranked gets the same amount subtracted. This is done no matter the outcome of the game. Spain has 739 and Canada has 513, for a difference of 226. So... Spain : 20 - (226/50) = 15.48 Canada: 0 + (226/50) = 4.52 Now goal points are added, but I have no idea how that works. So lets just ignore it. But the away team always gets a bonus 3 points per game. So canada gets another 3 points. Spain: 15.48 Canada : 4.52 + 3 = 7.52 Scores are now multiplied by a match status amount. They are: Friendly match x 1.00 Continental championship preliminary x 1.50 World Cup preliminary match x 1.50 Continental championship finals match x 1.75 FIFA Confederations Cup match x 1.75 World Cup finals match x 2.00 This being a friendly so the score is multiplied by 1.00 Spain: 15.48 x 1.00 = 15.48 Canada : 7.52 x 1.00 = 7.52 Now the scores are multiplied by the regional strength. UEFA x 1.00 CONMEBOL x 0.99 CAF x 0.96 CONCACAF x 0.94 AFC x 0.93 OFC x 0.93 Since this is between two teams from the different regions, the factor is averaged so in this case (0.94 + 1)/2 = 0.97 . So we now get the final scores ... Spain: 15.48 x 0.97 = 15.0156 Canada : 7.52 x 0.97 = 7.2944 If this is one of Canada's best seven scores of the past year it will be added. So we see how even a loss to spain can get us points. This again is without goal points, but that is because who knows how that works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youllneverwalkalone Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Great explanation, and my apologies if I missed it, but what about the fact that it was an away match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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