Approximately 70% of countries within the top 20 for most GDP have qualified for the World Cup. Approximately 91% of countries outside the top 20...
Here I have compiled a couple of bar chart races for countries with the best Elo rating dating back to 1872. These Elo ratings are wealth and...
Here are 2 bar chart races I made for 2 different eras. These use wealth and population adjusted rankings for higher accuracy in representing the...
There is a technical problem with the game of football, and it is mathematical. It is the team sport with the highest rate of upsets, this in...
There's an easy fix for this, stop the clock when ball is out of play. Most sports were developed in the 1800s when the stop clock was invented,...
http://internationalsports.nfshost.com/index.php/home/load_sports/5/2018 This is a more accurate method of judging skill of countries in any...
These are wealth and population adjusted Elo ratings (alternative flags used in some cases, flags are usually historically accurate). All Time:...
Available population is amount of people living on the equivalent of 10USD or more. It is what I used to use to get an estimation of combined...
These are wealth and population adjusted rankings which give a better representation of true skill than normal rankings and tournament results. In...
I hope that you do, we need more people talking about this. You might find this interesting as well (this link is not my website):...
For anyone interested in this subject, here is some relevant data (this is not my website):...
Thanks, do you have a spreadsheet setup for this you could share, and have you viewed any of the other spreadsheets? The multiple sports...
Keep in mind that sheet only accounts for 1 sport in 1 year... this is not much data to work with at all. I was surprised that the correlation for...
Your perception, or what you say your perception of me is, is completely incorrect. I was not insulting your English. You had misinterpreted...
Can you show me your data, what does .3840 mean and how are you defining "not strong"
I just got this started, so I don't have many regions yet. But if anyone wants a region added let me know and I'll try to do it first. These are...
You're telling me what I already told yo (: I left out countries that have below 100,000 economic determinant (unless I missed a few). Yes,...
Of course. Certainly wealth and population matter less than in something like a war, because there is no limit to people you can "put on the...
I would love to see a complete spreadsheet on this... because if you did a complete study of all countries and jerseys with results the numbers...
This is laughable, I do not take any of this personally in the slightest. I am not sure why you think this (self projection?). And you are taking...
don't look now, but i'm not the retarded one around here. I don't remember getting emotional during my last post... completely your perception....
UEFA has 14 spots for the 2018 World Cup. Here are the major European countries with their economic determinant (a number that estimates countries...
football culture is very important (as is will to play). this i have stated many times, but besides this wealth and population are the biggest...
AFC has 4.5 spots for the 2018 World Cup. Here are the major Asian countries with their economic determinant (a number that estimates countries...
CONCACAF has 3.5 spots for the 2018 World Cup. Here are the major North American countries with their economic determinant (a number that...