Saturday,
July 15, 2006
The ANNOTICO Report
The Good News is that FIFA reduced the Term of their Rankings of 8 years to 4 years.
The Bad News is that FIFA reduced the Term of their Rankings of 8 years to 4 years.
FIFA should have and eventually will reduce the term to 2 years.
John Ryan explains the lunacy
below.
ITALIANS JOBBED
Mercury News
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Say what you want about the BCS and college
football -- and we have -- but when last season ended,
If only it were so easy in soccer. With its
World Cup victory and coronation as the world's best team,
To No. 2. Behind
This is that great new formula FIFA came up with?
One grand innovation was that rankings would now be based on a four-year span rather than eight years. In other words, if this were the NFL, the Raiders' current ranking would factor in their Super Bowl season of 2002. Yeah, they're about the same.
Examining the lunacy:
Finalists
The
Nobody's saying exactly how
the ratings are divined. But it looks like they came up with a
newer, better way to rig the 2010 draw.
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