Aeian Football Rankings

Top 12 rankings as of 2 November 2017
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1	22	Template:Country data New Timeria New Timeria	1723
2	1	Midrasia	1565
3	1	Template:Country data Tarasanovia Tarasanovia	1491
4	17	Ajerrin	1387
5	24	Crylante	1386
6	14	Navack	1211
7	19	Template:Country data Cheonsam Cheonsam	1190
8	15	Volgaria	1183
9	8	Template:Country data The Campagnies Avecain	1152
10	7	Template:Country data Rohst Rohst	764
11	14	Glanodel	671
12	5	Dreyvisevich	591
Latest edit 2 November 2017

Current calculation method

After the 2016 Copa d'Aeia, a revised calculation procedure for the FFA rankings was introduced, with a significantly simplified procedure. The new rankings were compiled in response to criticism from the media. Meetings were attended by FFA staff and external experts and a large amount of research was conducted by this group, resulting in the new ranking system. The new system was confirmed in Müneberg on 26 July 2017 by a committee of FFA executives.

The factors taken into account are as follows:

• Match result
• Match status
• Opposition strength
• Regional strength

Win, draw or defeat

With the new system, the points allocation is simpler: three points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss, in line with most league systems around the world.

In the event of a match being decided by a penalty shootout, the winning team receives two points, and the losing team one point.

Result	Points
Win (no penalty shootout)	3
Win (penalty shootout)	2
Draw	1
Loss (penalty shootout)	1
Loss (no penalty shootout)	0

Match status

Different matches have different importance to teams, and FFA has tried to respect this by using a weighting system, where the most significant matches are in the Copa d'Aeia finals, and the lowest weighted are friendly matches. FFA states that it wishes to recognise that friendlies are still important, since they make up half of the competitive matches counted in the rankings.

The match status multipliers are as follows:

Match status	Multiplier
Friendly match	x 1.0
Continental cup finals	x 2.0
Copa d'Aeia match	x 2.5
Copa d'Aeia finals	x 4.0

Opponent strength

A win against a very highly ranked opponent is a considerably greater achievement than a win against a low-rated opponent, thus the strength of the opposing team is an important factor.

The new system uses an opposition strength factor based on team rankings. The previous system was based on points difference.

with the exceptions that the team ranked #1 is given a multiplier of 1, and teams ranked 50th and below are assigned the minimum multiplier of 0.5.

Regional strength

In addition to the opposition strength multiplier, FFA considers the relative strength of entire confederations in the calculation. Each confederation is assigned a weighting between 0.85 and 1.0, based on the relative performance of the confederations in the last Copa d'Aeia. Their values are as follows:

Confederation	After 2017 Copa d'Aeia
Arabekh	0.94
Asura	0.96
Catai	0.92
Frigidarum	0.85
Yidao	0.96
Majula	0.85
Rennekka	0.94
Vestrim	0.90

After the 2017 Copa d'Aeia the values for each continent will be the same.

Ranking formula

The final ranking points figure for a single match is multiplied by 100 and rounded to the nearest whole number.

Ranking points = Result points X Match status X Opposition strength X Regional strength

Results for all matches played in the year are averaged together (assuming at least five matches have been played). The average ranking points for the four previous years, weighted by their multiplier mentioned above, are added together to arrive at the final ranking points.

Examples

The following examples use these hypothetical teams and confederations, and assume the games are played within the last 12 months:

• Amplistan is currently ranked 2nd in the world and is a member of confederation XYZ (weighting 1.0);
• Bestrudia is currently ranked 188th in the world and is a member of confederation ABC (weighting 0.88);

A friendly match is played between Amplistan and Bestrudia. Amplistan wins 2–1.

Match	Team	Result points	Match status	Opposition strength	Regional strength	Ranking points
Amplistan vs. Bestrudia (friendly) Result: 2–1	Amplistan Bestrudia	3 0	1.0 1.0	0.50 1.98	0.94 0.94	141 0

Bestrudia gets no ranking points because it lost the game, so all factors are multiplied by zero.

Amplistan's 141 ranking points are calculated like this:

• 3 points for the win;
• multiplied by 1.0 for match status (friendly match);
• multiplied by 0.50 for opposition strength (Bestrudia is ranked 188th, so it has the minimum 0.50 weighting);
• multiplied by 0.94 for regional strength (the average of the weightings for the two teams' confederations);
• multiplied by 100.

Team of the year

Team of the Year is awarded to the team that finishes top of the FFA Ranking. New Timeria are the Team of the Year following the Copa d'Aeia 2017. Ajerrin were second place, whilst Crylante were third.

Year	First place	Second place	Third place
2016	Template:Country data The Campagnies Avecain	Template:Country data Tarasanovia Tarasanovia	Midrasia
2017	Template:Country data New Timeria New Timeria	Ajerrin	Crylante