Comments on: Are FIFA’s world rankings fit for purpose? http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/ Wed, 22 May 2013 15:33:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Yames http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-32905 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:40:50 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-32905 England in 3rd what a joke! Probably closer to 15th place.

]]> By: wongping http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-32660 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:47:45 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-32660 Thank you very much for this article. FIFA in it self is a mockery and I do believe that something seriously should be done to it before the entire world loose confidence in them.

]]> By: jess http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-32252 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:03:57 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-32252 As an Englishman I can quite honestly say that, we too, find our FIFA ranking, at best, optimistic. At previous tournaments we'd managed to convince ourselves that we had a chance of winning them. However, in the two most recent tournaments it's finally dawned on us that the best we can hope for is that we manage to avoid embarrassing ourselves too much. Although we do have some very good players, it seems that they prefer the sanctuary of their domestic clubs rather than the expectant limelight of the national team. Not all bad thigh, we've now settled for the consolation of knowing that the French team is just as useless a our own.

]]> By: Kent R. Sailer http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-32098 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:15:22 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-32098 How the hell does England climb to 3rd???? Uruguay goes down to 4th??? & Russia climb 2 spots after crashing out of the group stage in the Euro???? OH! I forgot they are getting the World Cup after Brazil. When England wins a meaningful game they will surely be 1st.
Curious about some feedback regarding the point system I describe above?? Good or bad just curious to hear other opinions.

]]> By: Godwin Iyk http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-31983 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:46:10 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-31983 What is the fuss about ranking, for me is like chasing the shadow instead of the substance. England in particular should not believe that they have arrived especially after with the sorry display the team exhibited in the recent concluded Euro championship. They should rather go down to the root and work how to improve as it continue to marvel me that a country that invented the beautiful game has faild to rise above their average performance having only won in one of the most controversially manner in 1966.
I believe that when the chips are down the likes of Brazil, Agentina, Spain , Germany and few others will always be there and make all the so call ranking look stupid and meaningless

]]> By: rgs2000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-31704 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:19:51 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-31704 FIFA ranking are complicated so they can just fixed at their will and it has been change from time to time. The point weight are diferent depending on the competition and the contender own ranking plus the place you get at the end of the competition. Friendly matches are considered as outside the main ranking so it weighs less but with the same caracteristic as it were competition. Finally they just a period time to define the ranking. The ranking is a joke and racist itself since competitions in south america and north america at some point weighs less due to their contender ranking in the fifa ranking by the time the competition is held. Just to make my case, take this, how come Uruguay, who did very well in their friendlies plus qualified higher than England in the world cup 2010 and won the COPA AMERICA has almost the same amount of points than England that classified lower in the world cup 2010, lost in quarter finals in the EURO 2012 and even with the qualification matches for the EURO, they has done way lesser than Uruguay.

Btw, the dumb comment about dictatorship shows your lack of history. Indeed those were bad times but those world cup were held without any controversy from the war since war didnt have anything to do with it plus if that were the case 1934 should have gone to germany and not italy since Mussolini was Hitler sucker. The only real controversy was Uruguay that didnt want to go there because European didnt go to Uruguay the previous world cup in 1930. Next time you want to make a remark like that has some respect for the countries you talk about.

]]> By: Kent R. Sailer http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-31662 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:28:19 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-31662 Simple : 3 points for a win against a team w/higher ranking
2 points for a win against a team w/lower ranking
1 point for a draw regardless of ranking
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– 3 points for a loss to a team w/lower ranking
– 2 points for a loss to a team w/higher ranking

This formula is simple, fair and applies to ALL games (friendly or otherwise). It also takes away the ambiguous (played against tougher competition) which is always somebodies opinion. Now you can use the latest FIFA rankings as a starting point. Any future seedings prior to tournaments is based on position held at the time.

]]> By: Steve http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-31461 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:02:28 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-31461 Streaky – your claim that the FIFA ranking is a pointless statistical exercise is completely wrong.

1. The rankings are used for seedings for World Cup qualifying
2. Countries such as England will not usually grant work permits to players whose country has not averaged a top 70 ranking in the last two years.

So really good players from countries from smaller federations that don't play eight games a year are unfairly penalised.

nextfifapresident@yahoo.com

]]> By: Jimenez http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-31337 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:37:48 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-31337 Honestly I can understand how the ranking got to where they are today, but that doesn't mean it's correct. England 4th? I do not hate the squad but they to not merit 4 place in the world. Personally i would use computer ranking for any spot above 15th in world rankings and then go off of just interpretation. We all know England would be killed by some teams ranked behind them in the top 15.

]]> By: mojorisin http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/04/are-fifas-world-rankings-fit-for-purpose/#comment-31306 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:13:17 +0000 http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/?p=8111#comment-31306 So England have just concluded a major tournement in which they reached the quarter final against a major team and lost a draw on penalites to that team. The first two teams are Spain (which won said tournement) and Germany. It would seem that the rankings are actually pretty good. England will fall back to 8th or 9th or 10th over the next couple of years until the WC starts gearing up. Brazil and Agenetina and Mexico will rise as thier own local tourmements are played and the European teams will fall as their most recent matches become older and the Latin american teams matches become fresher within the stats. No team is any better than it's last match.

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