11th in Asia is a bit too high.We are more around 18-20th in Asia.
But During our best times,when Bhutia,Subrata,Gouramanagi,Pradeep, a younger Chhetri,Steven Dias,Anthony Pereira etc used to play then also our rank used to hover around 150 even though these guys were more like 110-120 in the world.
So,in my opinion we should be around 120-125 on merit, but it seems we are improving on the pitch which is more important so hopefully by qualifying for Asia Cup in a convincing manner we can prove that we deserve to be around the 100 mark on merit. When I say comprehensive manner,I mean if we manage to get 13 or more points in our qualifying group,I would take that as comprehensive.
Now we have no official games scheduled within next one month, what is your calculations regarding India position in 4th May Ranking List? Probably other countries are also not playing any matches. Are we losing any points in 4 years calculations?
From FIFA Website
The average number of points gained from matches older than 12 months
Four years, covering one World Cup cycle, are taken into account. Matches o
lder than 12 months within this
four
-
year period depreciate blockwise on a yearly basis:
Match average from
past 12 months
:
100%
Match average from previous year:
50%
Match average from year 3:
30%
Match average from year 4:
20%
Matches older than 4 years:
0%
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This old performance also matters in calculation of FIFA points.
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11th in Asia is a bit too high.We are more around 18-20th in Asia.
But During our best times,when Bhutia,Subrata,Gouramanagi,Pradeep, a younger Chhetri,Steven Dias,Anthony Pereira etc used to play then also our rank used to hover around 150 even though these guys were more like 110-120 in the world.
So,in my opinion we should be around 120-125 on merit, but it seems we are improving on the pitch which is more important so hopefully by qualifying for Asia Cup in a convincing manner we can prove that we deserve to be around the 100 mark on merit.
When I say comprehensive manner,I mean if we manage to get 13 or more points in our qualifying group,I would take that as comprehensive.
From FIFA Website
This old performance also matters in calculation of FIFA points.