The Unoffical BS Top 25 (7/20/05)
Tomorrow is my favorite footcer day of the month, the publishing of the new FIFA rankings. Tomorrow's rankings should be interesting as the Confederations Cup matches are included. Argentina should move up from their current 3rd into second along with Mexico leapfrogging France into 5th (as France's past glories they're living on get further and further into the rear view mirror).
Yeah, I totally expect a giant crap storm to blow over the continent of Big Soccer.
After the last FIFA rankings, I decided to create a poll on that set of message boards to settle a little of the score. Instead of people subjectively threatening each other with bodily harm, I tried to create a subjective to objective poll much like the AP and USA Today polls in the United States.
And the BS Top 25 was born.
Of course I made the mistake of posting it on World Rivalries first and, yeah, crap storm.
Then scaryice (who if you don't read their Climbing The Ladder blog, you should) suggested I move it to The Beautiful game.
28 voters later (who ranked their personal Top 25 in the world from #1 to #25), the results are actually pretty interesting.
Since I'm going to bombarded with work tomorrow and needed to get the HTML somewhere, the readership of the Footcer Socblog gets a "preview" (well, it's the whole thing so it's not really a preview) of the first ever Unofficial BS Top 25.
It's not supposed to be this dramatic, but I can't get the formatting worked out. :)
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Others receiving votes: Cameroon 82, Iran 76, Nigeria 76, Ecuador 74, Colombia 60, Switzerland 30, Tunisia 29, Senegal 20, Uruguay 19, Morocco 12, Romania 12, Finland 7, Slovakia 6, Norway 4, South Africa 4, Australia 2, Israel 2, Bulgaria 1, Chile 1, Costa Rica 1, Saudi Arabia 1
NT = National Team
PTS = Total Number of Point (1st Place Vote = 25, 25th Place Vote = 1, etc.)
FPV = First Place Votes
LM = Last Month's Ranking
TMA = Two Months Ago's Ranking
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An actual funny entry (well perhaps it will be funny) to follow later today or tomorrow.
Yeah, I totally expect a giant crap storm to blow over the continent of Big Soccer.
After the last FIFA rankings, I decided to create a poll on that set of message boards to settle a little of the score. Instead of people subjectively threatening each other with bodily harm, I tried to create a subjective to objective poll much like the AP and USA Today polls in the United States.
And the BS Top 25 was born.
Of course I made the mistake of posting it on World Rivalries first and, yeah, crap storm.
Then scaryice (who if you don't read their Climbing The Ladder blog, you should) suggested I move it to The Beautiful game.
28 voters later (who ranked their personal Top 25 in the world from #1 to #25), the results are actually pretty interesting.
Since I'm going to bombarded with work tomorrow and needed to get the HTML somewhere, the readership of the Footcer Socblog gets a "preview" (well, it's the whole thing so it's not really a preview) of the first ever Unofficial BS Top 25.
It's not supposed to be this dramatic, but I can't get the formatting worked out. :)
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| Rank | NT | PTS | FPV | LM | TMA |
| 1 | Brazil | 696 | 26 | -- | -- |
| 2 | Argentina | 662 | -- | -- | -- |
| 3 | England | 608 | -- | -- | -- |
| 4 | Netherlands | 602 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 5 | Czech Republic | 561 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 6 | Italy | 522 | -- | -- | -- |
| 7 | Portugal | 507 | -- | -- | -- |
| 8 | Spain | 447 | -- | -- | -- |
| 9 | Germany | 436 | -- | -- | -- |
| 10 | Mexico | 418 | -- | -- | -- |
| 11 | France | 392 | -- | -- | -- |
| 12 | Sweden | 348 | -- | -- | -- |
| 13 | Ukraine | 275 | -- | -- | -- |
| 14 | United States | 250 | -- | -- | -- |
| 15 | Croatia | 234 | -- | -- | -- |
| 16 | Ireland | 223 | -- | -- | -- |
| 17 | Greece | 214 | -- | -- | -- |
| 18 | Turkey | 165 | -- | -- | -- |
| 19 | Denmark | 144 | -- | -- | -- |
| 20 | Poland | 123 | -- | -- | -- |
| 21 | Paraguay | 120 | -- | -- | -- |
| 22 | Japan | 112 | -- | -- | -- |
| 23 | South Korea | 102 | -- | -- | -- |
| 24 | Serbia & Montenegro | 100 | -- | -- | -- |
| 25 | Ivory Coast | 88 | -- | -- | -- |
Others receiving votes: Cameroon 82, Iran 76, Nigeria 76, Ecuador 74, Colombia 60, Switzerland 30, Tunisia 29, Senegal 20, Uruguay 19, Morocco 12, Romania 12, Finland 7, Slovakia 6, Norway 4, South Africa 4, Australia 2, Israel 2, Bulgaria 1, Chile 1, Costa Rica 1, Saudi Arabia 1
NT = National Team
PTS = Total Number of Point (1st Place Vote = 25, 25th Place Vote = 1, etc.)
FPV = First Place Votes
LM = Last Month's Ranking
TMA = Two Months Ago's Ranking
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An actual funny entry (well perhaps it will be funny) to follow later today or tomorrow.
posted by incendiarymind at 3:31 PM
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