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re: World Cup draw - Official discussion thread
Posted on 12/3/13 at 8:53 pm to SwaggerCopter
Posted on 12/3/13 at 8:53 pm to SwaggerCopter
Why not have 4 pots, 1-8, 9-16, 17-24, 24-32.
Because then FIFA couldn't play games with the draw.
If you don't know that by now you never will.
Does anyone think the Swiss are a top 8 team.
Portugal arw not 5 as they sit now, even though they missed the top 8 seed.
Israel played them twice, I watched both games, they are not a top 5 team.
My final 4 will be Brazil, Germany, Argentina and a longshot team like USA, Belgum ( not really longshot , in name only ) Bosnia, or an African nation, I feel this is the WC that an up and coming team breaks through.
England & Fraace are crap.
Because then FIFA couldn't play games with the draw.
If you don't know that by now you never will.
Does anyone think the Swiss are a top 8 team.
Portugal arw not 5 as they sit now, even though they missed the top 8 seed.
Israel played them twice, I watched both games, they are not a top 5 team.
My final 4 will be Brazil, Germany, Argentina and a longshot team like USA, Belgum ( not really longshot , in name only ) Bosnia, or an African nation, I feel this is the WC that an up and coming team breaks through.
England & Fraace are crap.
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Posted on 12/3/13 at 9:01 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
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Why not have 4 pots, 1-8, 9-16, 17-24, 24-32.
That would be a hell of a lot more rigged that doing it by confederation.
Posted on 12/3/13 at 9:24 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
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Why not have 4 pots, 1-8, 9-16, 17-24, 24-32. . . . Does anyone think the Swiss are a top 8 team.
The main problem this time is how they are arriving at the 1-8 seeds.
They just used the current October FIFA rankings and those computer rankings always have a lot of weird outliers in any given month.
In the past, there has been some method in place to correct outliers: FIFA rankings being averaged out over a longer period of time and, more importantly, being weighted by teams' actual performance in actual recent competitive tournaments.
This would still be a tough WC but getting Netherlands and Italy into the first pot -- where they would have been using all previous methods -- would have helped immensely.
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