New FIBA ranking

[kestas]

from fiba.com

1º- United States – 1.030 pts;
2º- Australia – 860pts
3º- Russia – 843pts
4º- Brazil – 556pts
5º- France – 357pts
6º- Czech Republic – 304pts
7º- Cuba – 297pts
8º- Spain – 294pts
9º- Korea – 284,9pts
10º- China – 251,5
11º- Canada – 184pts
12º- Argentina – 162,4
13º- Lithuania – 159pts
14º- Poland – 154pts
15º- Japan – 123,5pts
16º- Yugoslavia – 122pts
17º- New Zealand – 112pts
18º- Senegal – 109pts
19º- Slovakia – 98pts
20º- Greece – 88pts


this one shows how much FIBA rewards the improving nations, while the consistency and the actual strength at the given moment are somewhat overlooked. Lithuania this year has repeated its 6th place result from 8 years ago (11th four years ago), it beat Argentina and Canada (Canada were a pathetic team in this tournament, simple as that), but they still dropped from 12 to 13th... behind Argentina and Canada. sure, everything's fair under the ranking rules (which are not too bad), but under these rules rankings seem to be unrecognized by the public at all..

and btw, it still includes Yugoslavia ............

[Phantim3dx]

okay for a moment i tohught it was men's but upon closer isnpection its women ranking

[kestas]

okay for a moment i tohught it was men's but upon closer isnpection its women ranking

sorry, the forum section is called "Women's Game", so I figured..

anyways, I was looking at the combined rankings and wondered why do they sum up points from men and women rankings instead of summing up placings in both rankings. such ranking would show huge superiority by US over Spain in second, but it would probably be pretty fair.. but nevermind..

[Lietuvis]

yeah Kestas I thought the same when I first saw these and was going to post what you have posted. I then had a further look and I saw our ladies have not played i Olympics where some of the other teams have.

This is what has hurt our ranking the most..

[Big Fundermental]

were is australia ?

[kajacko]

have another look

this forum is not the women's game... hence the confusion. i found it under 2006 world championships...

[wanja]

Updated FIBA Rankings

1. USA 1140.0
2. Australia 899.0
3. Russia 838.0
4. Brazil 556.0
5. Spain 359.0
6. France 344.0
7. Korea 295.9
8. Cuba 276.0
9. Czech Republic 266.0
10. China 265.0
11. Canada 194.2
12. Argentina 168.2
13. Lithuania 155.0
14. Serbia 148.0
15. Japan 127.5
16. New Zealand 112.0
17. Senegal 107.0
18. Slovak Republic 96.0
19. Poland 95.0
20. Greece 94.0
21. Nigeria 77.8
22. Chinese Taipei 72.5
23. Hungary 44.0
24. Tunisia 41.2
25. Sweden 40.0
26. Belgium 39.0
26. Latvia 39.0
28. Mexico 32.0
28. Chile 32.0
30. Belarus 30.0
31. Mali 28.6
32. Dem.Rep. of Congo 21.8
33. Turkey 21.0
33. Croatia 21.0
35. Puerto Rico 20.2
36. Romania 20.0
36. Dominican Republic 20.0
38. Mozambique 19.6
39. Thailand 16.8
40. Germany 16.0
40. Ukraine 16.0
42. Angola 14.4
43. Malaysia 14.1
44. India 13.2