mr_mister
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Was bored and did a thing.
Using a probably flawed system, i've calculated and ranked european teams based on their results at the 2 biggest tournaments from 1994 to this current Euros. I wanted to basically make a 'best european nations of modern football' list.
If 1994 seems like an arbitrary cutoff point, I was originally going to start it at the year 2000 and just have it as a 21st century thing. But the 1998 WC and the 1996 Euros seem too iconic to exclude, and still very feel much like modern football. Then I decided to dial it back to 1994 so I have an even number of World Cups and Euros represented, 7 each. I could have gone all the way to 1990 as a cutoff but '90 and '92 are a bit weird. The Soviet Union, West Germany and Czechoslovakia still existing in some form even as late as '92(in the football world anyway, CIS were a team in '92) would make it a bit of a pain to calculate things and possibly make my system unworkable. Plus the '92 tournament was only 8 teams which would also possibly be an issue with the way I'm doing things.
Annnyway it's a pretty simple points system.
Teams get 1 point for qualifying for a tournament but not advancing past the group stage, 2 points for getting to the round of 16, 4 for the quarters, 8 for the semis, 16 for making the final and 32 for winning one.
I know it's not perfect, and there were other ways of doing the points that I considered, but I went with this way.
Anyway, there is a clear gap between the top 16 teams and the rest. Only 16 teams got 15+ points and it's a huge cluster**** afterwards, I think 5 teams tied on 10 points for example. So anyway here we are:
1- France (151 points)
2- Germany (141 points)
3- Spain (129 points)
4- Italy (114 points)*
5- Portugal (88 points)
6- Netherlands (67 points)
7- England (48 points)*
8- Croatia and Greece (41 points)
10- Czech Republic (36 points)
11- Belgium and Sweden (26 points)
13- Denmark (24 points)*
14- Turkey (23 points)
15- Russia (22 points)
16- Switzerland (18 points)
*If Italy win the final, they slip past Spain by 1 point and hit 3rd.
*If England go on and win the Euros, they pass Netherlands and hit 6th.
*If Denmark beat England and go on and win this tournament they jump all the way to 7th and tie England. If they beat England but fall to Italy they just pass Sweden and Belgium and hit 11th. If we did include the '92 Euros, they'd already be ahead of England and would pass Netherlands with a win this time around.
Using a probably flawed system, i've calculated and ranked european teams based on their results at the 2 biggest tournaments from 1994 to this current Euros. I wanted to basically make a 'best european nations of modern football' list.
If 1994 seems like an arbitrary cutoff point, I was originally going to start it at the year 2000 and just have it as a 21st century thing. But the 1998 WC and the 1996 Euros seem too iconic to exclude, and still very feel much like modern football. Then I decided to dial it back to 1994 so I have an even number of World Cups and Euros represented, 7 each. I could have gone all the way to 1990 as a cutoff but '90 and '92 are a bit weird. The Soviet Union, West Germany and Czechoslovakia still existing in some form even as late as '92(in the football world anyway, CIS were a team in '92) would make it a bit of a pain to calculate things and possibly make my system unworkable. Plus the '92 tournament was only 8 teams which would also possibly be an issue with the way I'm doing things.
Annnyway it's a pretty simple points system.
Teams get 1 point for qualifying for a tournament but not advancing past the group stage, 2 points for getting to the round of 16, 4 for the quarters, 8 for the semis, 16 for making the final and 32 for winning one.
I know it's not perfect, and there were other ways of doing the points that I considered, but I went with this way.
Anyway, there is a clear gap between the top 16 teams and the rest. Only 16 teams got 15+ points and it's a huge cluster**** afterwards, I think 5 teams tied on 10 points for example. So anyway here we are:
1- France (151 points)
2- Germany (141 points)
3- Spain (129 points)
4- Italy (114 points)*
5- Portugal (88 points)
6- Netherlands (67 points)
7- England (48 points)*
8- Croatia and Greece (41 points)
10- Czech Republic (36 points)
11- Belgium and Sweden (26 points)
13- Denmark (24 points)*
14- Turkey (23 points)
15- Russia (22 points)
16- Switzerland (18 points)
*If Italy win the final, they slip past Spain by 1 point and hit 3rd.
*If England go on and win the Euros, they pass Netherlands and hit 6th.
*If Denmark beat England and go on and win this tournament they jump all the way to 7th and tie England. If they beat England but fall to Italy they just pass Sweden and Belgium and hit 11th. If we did include the '92 Euros, they'd already be ahead of England and would pass Netherlands with a win this time around.
