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For the Top 2 places, it doesn't matter how many finalists or semi-finalists country have, what matters is that all your clubs go through the knockout stage, if they all reach the quarter-finals, you are surely in the Top 2. This is true this season for Portugal and even probably for France, even ...

I agree with your post but just for precision Do you remember a season with 2 French clubs at CL's SFs? I don't. season 2019-20 PSG and Lyon For the Top 2 places, it doesn't matter how many finalists or semi-finalists country have, what matters is that all your clubs go through the knockout stage ...

Ok, I haven't thought about this scenario! I agree, this is far from optimal. :? Teams should just carry both matches to next GS, that solve all problems of fixing, since each match matters. It reduces the problem but doesn’t eliminate it. Since head to head is a tie breaker (even if it’s not the fi ...

My proposal is as follows: 16 groups of 3. The first 2 of each group advance to the second group stage with 8 groups of 4. Teams of the same group stay together, the result between them is carried over. From this point onwards, the competition goes on as the old 32-team world cup. This format ...

@amirbachar, I agree with that. I have tried to optimize it by ignoring matches of no interest, and removing possible results that doesn’t help the specific team to get a worse position. I am sure it can be optimized more, but haven’t found anything. If others can get the simulation to finish dra ...

Do you know where I can find a source that provides lowest possible final positions for each team in UCL, UEL and UECL? Of course that is 36th for every team in the three competitions right now, but after some rounds, we will see that some teams cannot finish lower than e.g. 33rd. I made a program ...

That is for the future, I would like to know if Portugal há ever dropped from 6th to 7th if the bonus points and number of points from the 3 different competitions were like this year. Bonus points at new format are awarded based on the position of each club in the league while at old format based ...

Do I understand correctly that in theory it can lead to a scenario in which say 24th and 25th team are playing in the same group of League B, 24th team gets the second place in the group thus entering UNL PO, 25th team is the fourth, not in UNL PO. Now, if pot 2 contains more UNL PO teams than ...

Potential draw pot adjustments Twenty-four teams will join the UNL QF or promotion/relegation play-offs (“UNL PO”) in March 2025 and need to be free to play those matches. Should a given draw pot include more UNL PO teams than the maximum number of EQ groups able to contain such teams, a draw pot ad ...

Just now these nations will be seeded in Pot 1 for the European qualifying? From Nations League. Portugal, Croatia, Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and Spain. And the 4 other Nations will be England, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria? Is this correct? Correct. So far happens to pretty ...

They will already use the FIFA world ranking to seed all of the teams aside from the 8 UNL QFists, surely the performance on the pitch should be the decisive factor not the world ranking for ranking the runners-up. As we said, theere is no real way to diffrentiate the performance on the field of ...

Tazmania wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 23:04 It's ludicrous to rank the runners-up by the FIFA world ranking and not by their performance in the European Qualifiers.

WC Q would be only 6 matches, and much more dependent on the draw.
There is simply no other way in this system than using FIFA Rankings.

If Georgia can finish first, certainly helps increase their chances of a WC playoff spot if quite a decent amount of the group winners above them qualify directly for WC. They are currently ranked 9 out of the 14 group winners should things stay this way. The ranking is based on NL only, where ...

I made a comparison of the ranking of different teams In all 3 competitions by looking at different methods : https://x.com/lorenzo_carli83/status/1829074329474142266?s=46&t=XUFyU5_YPFqQozHStQZspA https://x.com/lorenzo_carli83/status/1830588775287886006?s=46&t=XUFyU5_YPFqQozHStQZspA https://x.com ...

Average Elo of opponents for each team:
https://x.com/globalwaffles/status/1829267033764278606