{"id":348,"date":"2007-11-22T22:23:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/11\/22\/2010-wcq-a-quick-look-at-the-pots\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T22:24:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T22:24:32","slug":"2010-wcq-a-quick-look-at-the-pots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/11\/22\/2010-wcq-a-quick-look-at-the-pots\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 WCQ: A quick look at the pots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2F2010-wcq-a-quick-look-at-the-pots%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"fulgerica\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/11\/22\/2010-wcq-a-quick-look-at-the-pots\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Take a look at the table below to see how the pots shape up before the last matchday. Only the values for the first 14 countries are 99% correct (I would say 100% correct, but you never know), being based on official data released by FIFA. The other values are computed using historical rankings, different from the ones used by FIFA. But they&#8217;re pretty close to the official values and will help you see what pot your country will end up in.<\/p>\n<p>The third column contains the number of points after the November 17th matches.<\/p>\n<pre> R Country                  L    D    W\r\n-----------------------------------------\r\n1 Italy              1537 1461 1473 1498\r\n2 Germany            1321 1267 1296 1355\r\n3 Spain              1309 1247 1281 1349\r\n4 Portugal           1258 1208 1241 1306\r\n5 France             1251 1206 1243 1318\r\n6 Czech Republic     1250 1183 1219 1290\r\n7 Netherlands        1217 1170 1192 1236\r\n8 England            1151 1113 1152 1231\r\n9 Greece             1065 1010 1045 1114\r\n-----------------------------------------\r\n10 Romania            1055 1007 1034 1088\r\n11 Croatia            1054 1000 1043 1129\r\n12 Scotland            990  990  990  990\r\n13 Russia              870  824  836  861\r\n14 Poland              854  824  855  916\r\n15 Turkey              847  811  842  906\r\n16 Bulgaria            845  799  827  883\r\n17 Northern Ireland    843  786  839  947\r\n18 Serbia              840  792  842  942\r\n-----------------------------------------\r\n19 Norway              832  785  800  828\r\n20 Sweden              824  801  822  862\r\n21 Israel              812  770  798  855\r\n22 Ukraine             805  782  827  916\r\n23 Denmark             738  712  737  787\r\n24 Ireland             737  737  737  737\r\n25 Switzerland         692  670  687  720\r\n26 Finland             690  649  697  793\r\n27 Bosnia-Herzegovina  622  578  626  721\r\n-----------------------------------------\r\n28 Hungary             614  583  621  699\r\n29 Macedonia           586  552  597  687\r\n30 Slovakia            584  567  577  598\r\n31 Moldova             570  570  570  570\r\n32 Belgium             563  532  553  595\r\n33 Wales               542  515  555  636\r\n34 Cyprus              527  499  542  629\r\n35 Lithuania           479  455  484  543\r\n36 Belarus             437  419  463  551\r\n-----------------------------------------\r\n37 Georgia             432  407  430  476\r\n38 Albania             420  397  440  525\r\n39 Slovenia            417  396  434  509\r\n40 Iceland             413  384  432  527\r\n41 Latvia              413  392  429  502\r\n42 Armenia             396  370  387  419\r\n43 Austria             352  342  354  378\r\n44 Liechtenstein       261  261  261  261\r\n45 Azerbaijan          260  247  273  325\r\n-----------------------------------------\r\n46 Kazakhstan          247  236  255  292\r\n47 Estonia             221  215  224  242\r\n48 Malta               191  185  222  297\r\n49 Luxembourg          127  127  127  127\r\n50 Montenegro           65   65  65    65\r\n51 Andorra              61   60 111   213\r\n52 Faroe Islands        13   13  75   198\r\n53 San Marino            6    6  48   131<\/pre>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2F2010-wcq-a-quick-look-at-the-pots%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Take a look at the table below to see how the pots shape up before the last matchday. Only the values for the first 14 countries are 99% correct (I would say 100% correct, but you never know), being based on official data released by FIFA. The other values are computed using historical rankings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}