Fifa World Rankings

[eirebhoy]

afaik the system takes into account your results in relation to the strength and ranking of the teams you have played with a highly complex method of points scoring of which im not able to explain, one thing i do know is that they discard your worst 2 results in the last 2 year period i think which would exclude our results against the swiss and nigeria in the summer i think

Actually I'm still a bit confused. Why do all the websites say things like "Ireland's good start to the WC qualifying campaign have moved them up 1 place", etc?

[inexile]

because the system involved is a "weighted" system with the most recent games played being worth more points and it carries on on a sliding scale for as i said 2 years i think!! it also excluded your 2 worst results, so for example ireland drawin 0-0 with france last month would be worth more points than drawing with spain because it will be worked on a sliding scale with most recent results getting more points