Pompey Canuck tries, with some success, to do something similar with my 2014 World Cup seeding, but for CONCACAF.
There are a couple of mistakes in the article:
* Pompey Canuck got some parts of the FIFA ranking method right, but he forgot to divide the points won in each time frame by the number of matches
* The 13th team in the ranking gets a bye to the 2nd round, it's not random
* It's a very bad idea to play lots and lots of friendlies, especially against St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Turks & Caicos, Bahamas, Aruba as it will bring your average down
Anyway, here's the May 2011 FIFA Ranking with the usual explanations:
The preliminary draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup took place on November 25th, 2007 and used the May 2007 FIFA ranking (for CONCACAF).
Assumptions:
- CONCACAF will again have 3.5 spots
- CONCACAF will again use the same qualifying system
- FIFA will use the FIFA ranking to seed the teams
The May 2011 FIFA ranking will include matches played between May 2007 and May 2011. We already have the "0.2" and "0.3" parts (matches played between May 2007 and May 2009) - that's basically 25% of the final ranking and a bit of the "0.5" part (matches played between May 2009 and May 2010). A lot can and will change before May 2011 as there are many matches to be played involving CONCACAF teams: 2009 Gold Cup knockout stages, 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010 Caribbean Championship, 2011 UNCAF Nations Cup and plenty of friendlies.
This is the May 2011 ranking (for CONCACAF only) using matches played up to and including June 13th, 2009 and matches scheduled up to May 2009 (only those on fifa.com).
The "0.5" part is computed this way: points gained / (number of matches played + scheduled).
1 USA 433
2 Canada 354
3 Costa Rica 342
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4 Honduras 298
5 Mexico 293
6 El Salvador 215
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7 Panama 208
8 Jamaica 200
9 Haiti 174
10 Trinidad and Tobago 116
11 Grenada 115
12 Antigua and Barbuda 112
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13 Guatemala 90
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14 Cuba 87
15 Bermuda 80
16 Barbados 70
17 Suriname 63
18 Guyana 53
18 Nicaragua 53
20 Netherlands Antilles 50
21 Puerto Rico 48
22 St. Kitts and Nevis 38
23 Cayman Islands 24
24 Belize 22
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24 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 22
26 St. Lucia 13
26 Turks and Caicos Islands 13
28 British Virgin Islands 12
29 Bahamas 8
30 Aruba 7
31 Dominica 5
32 US Virgin Islands 3
33 Montserrat 0
33 Dominican Republic 0
33 Anguilla 0
Thanks very much for doing this. Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteWould it be too much to ask to see next month what the rankings would look like if CONCACAF decides to use the August 2011 rankings (like they should have in 2007)?
August 2010 - July 2011 50%
August 2009 - July 2010 25%
August 2008 - July 2009 15%
August 2007 - July 2007 10%
I think this is the more likely cut-off, given the possible advantage it gives Trinidad & Tobago, who missed the 2009 Gold Cup and have performed poorly in the hex so far. Use of later rankings would devalue those games. I hate to be a cynic, but Jack Warner's stranglehold over the confederation must be taken into account.
As far as I can tell, the major changes, aside from the inclusion of the 2011 Gold Cup, would be the devaluation of rounds 4 and 5 of the hex as well as the 2007 (10% to 0%) and 2009 (25% to 15%) Gold Cups. The value of the Caribbean Cup final stages and the UNCAF Cup would remain the same.
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