world cup help

[unclehobart]

Someone please explain to this ignorant yank the ranking system (2 0 0 1) and the points. I understand wins and losses and ties. Why 4 columns? What do they represent?

 

[Luis G]

ris, please explain that to this ignorant mexican too.

I know about points and that stuff, but i don't seem to get that table, in fact i just don't care that much about it.

I guess it has something to do with goals made and goals against.

 

[ris]

yeah, sorry i should have explained that earlier

team.......played...won..drawn..lost..points
england......2.........1........1.......0....pts4

3pts for a win, 1 for a draw. when it comes to end of the group stage in the event of a tie on points teams are ranked by goal difference, then goals scored, and then the result between the team if the previous are identical.

 

[unclehobart]

played? played! ... you must be joking.. You mean to tell me that people cannot add 3 single digit numbers on the fly? Thats pathetic.

OMG ... OMG ... I can't handle 1 + 1 + 0 ... we need a total games played column.

 

[ris]

it's just standard football tables, the full ones look like this:


team...played.won..drawn..lost..goals for..goals against..goal difference...points

in a season of 38 games you need all the columns, for smaller championships like this it's just reassuring

 

[unclehobart]

I can see it for a 38 game season...

What is the maximum number of games played by the pair that reaches the final? 15? 12?

 

[Luis G]

3 in the group, 1 on knockouts, 1 on quarter, 1 on semifinals, and 1 in the final match.

7 games

 

[unclehobart]

Thats it? They need to flesh it out a touch more.

 

[Luis G]

There are also the games before the cup, you know, not all countries make it to the world cup.

However, i don't know how many games are to be played to qualify to the world cup.

 

[ris]

given that these are international teams who play maybe that number of games in a year and meet up infrequently, 7 games in 4 weeks is quite tight. and all the players also do 30-40 games a season domestic and maybe 10-12 european games.

and to think, i get knackered for 3 days after sunday league

 

[ris]

englands qualifying group was 6 teams i think, so ten games [home and away]. they are usually played over 2 years.

 

[AlladinSane]

South American qualifying games were played between 10 teams all vs all in home/away series. That counts for 18 games in 2 years. 4 teams classified and the 5th place(Uruguay) had to play 2 additional matches against the Champion of Oceania(Australia) to qualify.