FIFA Ranking: Even teachers can make mistakes

Luis "El Teacher" Cárdenas wrote an article for Balonazos.com two days ago, announcing a fall of six places for Venezuela. That's unlikely to happen. I don't have the time right now to check, but I think it's impossible for all four of Gabon, Tunisia, Mali and Zambia to overtake Venezuela.

I have them dropping only 3 places to 44th - based on probable results in the knock-out stage of the African Cup of Nations.

Speaking of the knock-out stage, this is one of the mistake El Teacher made. According to his article, the knock-out stage games won't be included in the February ranking. As you all know, that's false. FIFA will include all games, up to Sunday since it's a final tournament.

Based on this assumption, El Teacher computed a wrong total for Tunisia (621). Tunisia can have anywhere between 573 and 772 points.

While I can understand the 621 points for Tunisia, I can't quite understand how El Teacher came out with 623 points for Libya - they will only have 581 points.

One other problem it the extra team he has between Argentina and Ecuador. I have Ecuador in 40th place, while El Teacher has them in 41st.

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