The rankings also cannot award or take away points for real life scenarios for competitions. The rankings would in turn drop this team that showed a capability to contend with a strong side. If a bad ranked team is able to stifle the first or second ranked team for all 90 minutes of the game, the performance would be looked at as a great showing. This allows for historically strong teams to retain high positions even when they go through losing streaks and roster turnover.Īnother big issue is the calculation cannot possibly calculate form in a game. So if the calculation places a team as being ranked 30 but has a streak of good games where it beats highly ranked teams, the lower team gets boosted but the higher rank does not get moved as much because their value is less significant. A piece of the calculation is based on the last ranking the teams were given.
The biggest issue is that the formula uses itself within it. The formula comes out P= M x I x T x C x 100. The strength of the confederations is calculated by the mean of the victories calculated at the last three World Cups. The final factor is the confederation's strength (C). Taking 200 and subtracting it from the team's ranking and then dividing it by 100 calculates this part. The third factor is the standing of the opposition, according to the most recent FIFA World Rankings that have been published (T).