From: dstein@rhea.math.ucla.edu (David Stein)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: High Scoring? (was Re: 1994 world cup...)
Date: 15 Apr 92 05:46:27 GMT
Reply-To: dstein@rhea.math.ucla.edu (David Stein)
Organization: UCLA, Mathematics Department

vlad@erg.sri.com (vlad) writes: 
|> David, to fill your data. In 1978, Poland is missing from your list of
|> Forces.
   [ plus other data - thanks! ]

The list so far:

    SuperPower  MegaPower       Power           Force
    ==========  =========       =====           =====
90: Germany;    Argentina;      Italy,England;  Cze,Yugo,Cameroon,Ireland
88: Holland;    USSR;           Germany,Italy
86: Argentina;  Germany;        France,Belgium; England,Spain,Brazil,USSR
84: France;     Spain;          Portug,Denmark
82: Italy;      Germany;        France,Poland;  USSR,Brazil,England,Austria
80: Germany;    Belgium;        Cze,Italy
78: Argentina;  Holland;        Italy,Brazil;   Austria,Germany,Peru,Poland
76: Czechosl; 	Germany         Holland,Yugo
74: Germany;	Holland;	Poland,Brazil;	Sweden,E.Germ,Argent,Yugo?
72: Germany;    USSR; 		Hungary,?????
70: Brazil;	Italy;		Germany,Uruq;	USSR,England,Mexico,Yugo?
68: Italy;      Spain?;		USSR,England
66: England;	Germany;	Portugal,USSR;	USSR,Argentina,Uruquay,Hungary
64: Spain; 	USSR;		????,????
62: Brazil;	Czechosl;	Yugo, Chile	Germany,Hungary,
60: USSR;	????;		????,????

   Can someone complete/correct the table?
   (Only down to 1960 is needed.)
 
|> By the way, your tabulations seem to be erroneous. For example, you list
|> Gerany as a Megapower in almost all years, including 1984, when, according
|> to your list, they were not even a Force. On th eother hand, USSR in 1988
|> is listed only as a Force, despite its Silver in Euro. There lots of other
|> errors as well. please recompute.
|> 
|> Vlad

   No, no, I think you missed the two paragraphs under the table:

>   A title can be kept for the next tournament, and then it will
>   drop a level each 2 years -- unless the team succeedes again.
>
>   NOTE: the year labels only indicate the end of the PERIOD of up to
>   8 years that is being evaluated, with recent results counting more.

    So the status under a given year takes into account the few preceeding
    years as well.

    Take Italy as an example:

    she won WC in 82, and became Super Power.  So she came into the 84 EC 
    still as a Super Power.  She did badly, but that does hardly mean that
    a World Champion will loose all respect -- so Italy falls one step down
    to Mega Power, her status in the beginning of 86.  Her third place in 
    the EC 88 would guarrantee her a Force status at least, but she does
    better by dropping one level from Mega Power to Power.  She would drop
    to Force in 90, but she earns Power with her 3rd place in WC.

    So the status indicates the highest _respect_ a country had during
    that year, and respect in turn depends on the past as well. 


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