FIFA Makes Yet Another Mistake

FIFA Rankings Get Worse

Marc Connolly takes a look at the changes FIFA made to their ranking system for national teams. He seems to have a fun time pointing out how FIFA somehow managed to make it worse than it was before the changes. You couldn't find a serious soccer fan that truely felt the old way of ranking was accurate enough. The USA should've never ben ranked 5^th. But the new system is even more odd. Small teams that weren't good enough to qualify for the World Cup are ranked higher than teams that qualified. In some cases teams that advanced out of tough group such as Australia are ranked lower than teams that haven't qualified for a the couple of World Cups! This seems like a classic case of an organization getting it in their head tha tthey need to do something and assuming anything they do would make the situation better. Not only does is the new system less accurate than the one it replaces but in implementing it FIFA looks incompetent. I can't blame Connolly for laying into them for these changes, can you?