RolStoppable said:
I'd use the statistics for teams in the round of 16 to determine which federations are over- or underrepresented. |
Asian and African teams make up around 2/16 teams mathematically in the World Cup, so in the 32 team era there should be 2 teams in the Round of 16.
1998: 0/16
2002: 2/16
2006: 0/16
2010: 2/16
2014: 0/16
Africa
1998: 1/16
2002: 1/16
2006: 1/16
2010: 1/16
2014: 2/16
RolStoppable said:
Or in other words, if there are 32 teams in total and 16 advance to the knockout round, each confideration should get half of its teams beyond the group stage, because exactly half of the total amount of teams gets eliminated. Asia commonly had 4 teams at the last five world cups, so in total 10 of 20 should have made it to justify their amount of spots. They've gone 4/20. 20% instead of 50%. Africa commonly had 5 teams at the last five world cups (six in 2010 because of hosting), so in total 13 of 26 should have made it. They've gone 6/26. Slightly over 20% instead of 50%. If either confederation received additional spots in a world cup with 32 teams, it would happen at the expense of federations that overperform. |
Compare it to South America who has gone 18/25 (72%)
Expanding the World Cup was partly done to appease the European and South American teams who were afraid of losing spots.
Anyways I am really hoping an Asian or African team makes at least the semifinals next year.
RolStoppable said:
Really? UEFA and CONMEBOL can make strong cases that their teams are more watchable and therefore bring in more money for broadcasting rights of the World Cup. It's all about money. FIFA expands the size of the World Cup because they know they can't cut down on spots of the most important federations, but at the same time they want to harvest more money from the African and Asian markets. The same procedure as when they increased from 24 to 32 teams. |
That's exactly what I was saying. They expanded the World Cup to get more African and Asian teams without losing Europeean and South American representaton. I highly doubt Bosnia and Peru would bring in more viewers than China.
The game ended in a 2-3 win for the away team with a 96th minute winner LMAO
Wales and ROI's battle for second place today.
I don't really care about what happens in the rest of the internationals, other than fuck Argentina.
Congrats to Iceland. Glad to have them on board.
Congrats also to Ireland. I hope they win their playoffs.
Ireland end the Welsh day dream.
How sad Wales didn't make it. At least Ireland won't face France and Thierry Henry in the second round again.
My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.
What absolute scenes at the Ireland match. I was right behind the goal where we scored. In burger king now and about to run amoook. Cardiff watch out :D
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