Aggregated Football World Ranking-List
Encyclopedia
The Aggregated Football World Ranking-List is an alternative Ranking-System for men's national teams in football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

. It consists of the sum of all ranks in 11 different Ranking-System for men's national teams in football: FIFA World Rankings
FIFA World Rankings
The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, currently led by Spain. The teams of the member nations of FIFA , football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest...

, World Football Elo Ratings
World Football Elo Ratings
The World Football Elo Ratings is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football. The method used to rank teams is based upon the Elo rating system method but modified to take various football-specific variables into account...

, The Roon Ba, InternationalMark, AQB Sports Ratings, Voros McCracken
Voros McCracken
Robert "Vörös" McCracken is a prominent sabermetrician. Vörös is a nickname from his Hungarian heritage, meaning "red," specifically "blood red." He is most widely recognized for his pioneering work on Defense Independent Pitching Statistics .-DIPS published:McCracken first publicly disclosed his...

, Soccer Power Index (SPI) developed by Nate Silver
Nate Silver
Nathaniel Read "Nate" Silver is an American statistician, psephologist, and writer. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball...

, CTR (Computer-TeamRatings), Rsoccer, Mondfoot and Chance de Gol.

A link to each of these 11 different ranking-systems can be found on the site.
Using the Theory of The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better...

 (of James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page".-Background:...

 and John Piña Craven
John Piña Craven
John Piña Craven is known for his involvement with Bayesian search theory and the recovery of lost objects at sea....

) it can deliver a more exact ranking than one singular ranking-system. It has less bias
Bias
Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of alternatives. Bias can come in many forms.-In judgement and decision making:...

 and is less susceptible to errors within one of the rankings.
The Aggregated Football World Ranking-List was founded on August 17, 2005
It is updated after each major match day and at least once a month.

Top 15 Teams

Accurate as of 25 November 2011.

See also

  • FIFA World Rankings
    FIFA World Rankings
    The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, currently led by Spain. The teams of the member nations of FIFA , football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest...

  • World Football Elo Ratings
    World Football Elo Ratings
    The World Football Elo Ratings is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football. The method used to rank teams is based upon the Elo rating system method but modified to take various football-specific variables into account...

  • AQB Sports Ratings
  • Statistical Soccer (Football) Predictions
    Statistical Soccer (Football) Predictions
    Statistical Football prediction is a method used in sports betting, to predict the outcome of Association football matches by means of statistical tools. The goal of statistical match prediction is to outperform the predictions of bookmakers, who use them to set odds on the outcome of football...


External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK