Ranking structures and rank–rank correlations of countries: The FIFA and UEFA cases

Marcel Ausloos, Rudi Cloots (), Adam Gadomski () and Nikolay K. Vitanov ()
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Rudi Cloots: Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, B6C LCIS – GreenMAT, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Adam Gadomski: Department of Physics, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Physics, PL-85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Nikolay K. Vitanov: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mechanics, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 4, BG-1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2014, vol. 25, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: Ranking of agents competing with each other in complex systems may lead to paradoxes according to the pre-chosen different measures. A discussion is presented on such rank–rank, similar or not, correlations based on the case of European countries ranked by UEFA and FIFA from different soccer competitions. The first question to be answered is whether an empirical and simple law is obtained for such (self-) organizations of complex sociological systems with such different measuring schemes. It is found that the power law form is not the best description contrary to many modern expectations. The stretched exponential is much more adequate. Moreover, it is found that the measuring rules lead to some inner structures in both cases.

Keywords: Soccer; team ranking; country ranking; rank-rank correlations; empirical ranking laws; 05.90.+m; 07.05.Kf; 89.20.-a; 01.80.+b (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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