FIFA rankings are a joke
The rankings only matter to the extent they affect our ability to get decent international friendly matches. As to who ranks above us in Oceania - so what. The overall FIFA rankings are always a good joke, Spain are often ranked quite well and never win anything....
Are you England in disguise, are you England in disguise...
Drew with Wales (53) who went on to beat Bulgaria, Slovakia and San Marino. Draw with the Czechs.
Drew with Estonia (127) who went on to beat Andorra and Belarus.
Fiji beat no-one significant and lost to New Caledonia to earn their 119 ranking.
Bullsh*t rankings. Bullsh*t system
However, it's fair to conclude that the FIFA rankings are the biggest (and least humorous) joke of all. I mean, 6th in Oceania?loyalgunner2007-10-16 17:27:14
The World Football Elo Ratings are based on the Elo rating system, developed by Dr. Arpad Elo. This system is used by FIDE, the international chess federation, to rate chess players. In 1997 Bob Runyan adapted the Elo rating system to international football and posted the results on the Internet. He was also the first maintainer of the World Football Elo Ratings web site. The system was adapted to football by adding a weighting for the kind of match, an adjustment for the home team advantage, and an adjustment for goal difference in the match result.
These ratings take into account all international "A" matches for which results could be found. Ratings tend to converge on a team's true strength relative to its competitors after about 30 matches. Ratings for teams with fewer than 30 matches should be considered provisional.
NZ are ranked 74th in the world in that system and are top in Oceania.
74th in the world sounds a lot more like the All Whites than 150 whatever ridiculously high number it is now.
74th in the world sounds a lot more like the All Whites than 150 whatever ridiculously high number it is now.
Yet all those teams (Wales, Georgia, Estonia) are whipping boys in their respective groups for EURO qualifying. So FIFA rankings maybe aren't as inaccurate as some people would have you believe.
The rankings only matter to the extent they affect our ability to get decent international friendly matches. As to who ranks above us in Oceania - so what. The overall FIFA rankings are always a good joke, Spain are often ranked quite well and never win anything....
Yet all those teams (Wales, Georgia, Estonia) are whipping boys in their respective groups for EURO qualifying. So FIFA rankings maybe aren't as inaccurate as some people would have you believe.