A seeding system for the Caribbean Championship

The 2010 Digicel Caribbean Championship schedule can be found on CFU's website (pdf file).

It seems there will be knockout round, followed by a group stage with 4 groups and the the final stage.

Knock-out Round

First leg: March 13–14
Second leg: April 10–11

Group A

July 21–25

Group B

August 4–8

Group C

August 18–22

Group D

September 1–5

Final stage

November 1–15

It seems there's no clear seeding system - I could find no info regarding seeding for previous editions of the Caribbean Championship.

I came up with a CFU coefficient for national teams, based on the UEFA coefficient for national teams.

For the 2010 Caribbean Championship draw it would be based on the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the 2008-2009 Caribbean Championship and Gold Cup results, ratio 1:1. For non-FIFA CFU members, only the 2008-2009 Caribbean Championship and Gold Cup results will count for the ranking.

This is the math behind the coefficient:

• 10,000 points for each match played
• 10,000 points for a draw
• 30,000 points for a win
• 501 points for each goal scored
• 500 points subtracted for each goal received

If a match ends in a penalty shoot-out, the winning team will receive 20,000 points, with the losers getting 10,000 points.

To account for the difficulty of each stage, there will be bonus points as follows:

FIFA World Cup:

• 3,000 points for each match played in the Second Round
• 21,000 points for each match played in the First Group Stage
• 33,000 points for each match played in the Final Group Stage (the hex)
  

Caribbean Championship/Gold Cup:

• 3,000 points for each match played in the Second Group Stage
• 6,000 points for each match played in the Final Round Group Stage
• 9,000 points for playing in the Caribbean Championship semifinals
• 12,000 points for playing in the Caribbean Championship third place match
• 15,000 points for playing in the Caribbean Championship final
• 21,000 points for each match played in the Gold Cup group stage
• 27,000 points for playing in the Gold Cup quarterfinals
• 33,000 points for playing in the Gold Cup semifinals
• 39,000 points for playing in the Gold Cup final
  

These are the Caribbean standings:

1	Jamaica	45471
2	Trinidad and Tobago	39821
3	Guadeloupe	39169
4	Cuba	36471
5	Haiti	35697
6	Martinique	32202
7	Suriname	30952
8	Grenada	28176
9	Antigua and Barbuda	28106
10	Bermuda	26481
11	Barbados	25095
12	Netherlands Antilles	24226
13	Guyana	18251
14	Saint Kitts and Nevis	17102
15	Cayman Islands	16918
16	British Virgin Islands	14376
17	Puerto Rico	12417
18	Turks and Caicos Islands	12376
19	Dominica	11751
20	Aruba	11750
21	Saint Lucia	9063
22	Saint-Martin	8167
23	Anguilla	7501
24	Bahamas	7438
25	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5750
26	Dominican Republic	4750
27	Montserrat	3501
28	US Virgin Islands	2500
29	French Guiana	0
30	Sint Maarten	0

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