Max Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I don't know where to place this site, but I found this very interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_Elo_Ratings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red and White Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Personally, I don't usually give our Elo ranking much thought. I know its supposed to be more accurate, because the FIFA ranking suffers from mathematical inconsistencies. They're both mostly nothing more than an interesting stat, with the exception of the odd time when they're used to rank us for draws. Either way, its extremely difficult to truly quantify world rankings without errors of about +/- 20 or so. Even though its almost worthless, I do have a strange interest in our FIFA rank. I want to see it as high as possible, despite the fact that its artificial. I believe our current Elo ranking is 68, which, give or take, is around where we float in the FIFA rankings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuscan Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Only real weight the FIFA ranking has is where we are drawn when drawing spots for WCQ and the Gold Cup, etc... It is important that we remain high in the FIFA ranking, so we don't get stuck in groups of death. We were lucky this last draw, ending up with the group we did. Just need a win on the 7th and at least one more win and we should be home free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonte Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Only real weight the FIFA ranking has is where we are drawn when drawing spots for WCQ and the Gold Cup, etc... It is important that we remain high in the FIFA ranking, so we don't get stuck in groups of death. We were lucky this last draw, ending up with the group we did. Just need a win on the 7th and at least one more win and we should be home free. Know what's weird and oddly contrary to this? The fact that not being ranked in the top 6 this go around gave us more time to gel as a team against minnows in the opening round against St. K&N, Puerto Rico, and St. Lucia. Considering (not to be a redundant, as I said this in another thread), but considering how few friendlies we generally play, those 6 games were 6 games that allowed us to become a lot more tightknit. (again oddly) especially when we ended up fighting against other teams like St. Lucia, and everyone came to everyone's aid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Know what's weird and oddly contrary to this? The fact that not being ranked in the top 6 this go around gave us more time to gel as a team against minnows in the opening round against St. K&N, Puerto Rico, and St. Lucia. Considering (not to be a redundant, as I said this in another thread), but considering how few friendlies we generally play, those 6 games were 6 games that allowed us to become a lot more tightknit. (again oddly) especially when we ended up fighting against other teams like St. Lucia, and everyone came to everyone's aid. More than anything it was just good for the players to win a few pressure matches after that disaster of a Gold Cup. If we didn't have those matches I'm sure that we would have started off as we did in 2008 in this round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addona Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Only real weight the FIFA ranking has is where we are drawn when drawing spots for WCQ and the Gold Cup, etc... It is important that we remain high in the FIFA ranking, so we don't get stuck in groups of death. We were lucky this last draw, ending up with the group we did. Just need a win on the 7th and at least one more win and we should be home free. I agree regarding the FIFA ranking, although I would add one more point of value: even though it shouldn't, it's perceived as important by many casual soccer fans. If Canada's ranking were in the top 50, say, many more casual fans would feel much more positive about our program. It's true that advancing in WCQ will naturally bring up our ranking, but so will playing more in general. Which brings me to my question: Will this friendly against T&T even count for FIFA points? I see it listed on FIFA's site, but not on their ranking page where you can see all matches that will factor into the next release of the rankings. If we are going to go to the trouble of getting even a B squad together, shouldn't we make the effort to earn some ranking points!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonte Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Yeah it bugged out today. It was definitely listed yesterday. It does count as an international friendly, and will bring our points up. Also, some important losses will be dropping off the radar from 2008 at the same time, so despite their calculator (which was buggy this evening, I just went and checked)...despite what it says now, expect us to have roughly 480 points for Sept if my calc is correct, which should take them from 79th in the rankings to about 70th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 This friendly doesn't count. Possible reasons: number of substitutions, non-FIFA referee etc. Canada will have 454 points - 73rd. FIFA Ranking: September 2012 preview (II). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 This friendly doesn't count. Possible reasons: number of substitutions, non-FIFA referee etc. Canada will have 454 points - 73rd. FIFA Ranking: September 2012 preview (II). Well, i counted 6 subs by Canada...maybe T&T decided to **** things up and made an extra sub or something? or could have been a non-FIFA ref? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 (edited) The World Football ELO Ratings website has been improved. Features: * You can now display rankings for all confederations including CONCACAF. * You can display the results for whatever rankings you are looking at, and how each result affected the ratings (points gained/lost by each team). * You can display upcoming fixtures for whatever rankings you are looking at, which also shows the win expectancy for each team, according to ELO. * You can display all the results for one team and their corresponding ELO rating history. The first result for Canada was in 1924. ~ All teams: http://www.eloratings.net CONCACAF: http://www.eloratings.net/CONCACAF Canada: http://www.eloratings.net/Canada Edited March 26, 2018 by dsqpr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 (edited) Canada's next matchs are currently shown as: Sept 2018 at US Virgin Islands: Win Expectancy 98.4% Oct 2018 vs. Dominica: Win Expectancy 97% Nov 2018 at St. Kitts and Nevis: Win Expectancy 74% Mar 2019 vs. French Guiana: Win Expectancy 81% Edited March 26, 2018 by dsqpr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Canada currently #7 in CONCACAF and #73 Globally. CONCACAF ELO Rankings: http://www.eloratings.net/CONCACAF deschamp86, Kadenge and Red and White 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyCanuck Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 In looking at the ELO Rankings, the disparity in matches played is alarming. Canada has 387 total matches played, which is significantly below the CONCACAF nations ranked ahead of us: 1. Mexico - 885 2. USA - 691 3. Costa Rica - 680 4. Panama - 475 5. Honduras - 574 6. Jamaica - 601 7. Canada - 387 As info, England is the nation with the most all-time matches played at 1,035. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Lofty said: Latest ELO World Rankings for CONCACAF. Haiti deservedly up to 4th after successful Gold Cup: http://www.eloratings.net/CONCACAF And Canada in 6th, i.e. above the cut off for the hex if this was used instead of FIFA ranking. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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