Talk:2006 FIFA World Cup seeding
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Italy appear to have more points than Argentina, but they're further down the table - someone should check this out. Crobzub 22:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be a catch-22 in the rankings, they use previous world cup results as a basis for getting in to this world cup. worse teams that have previously made it can beat out better teams that haven't. 24.237.198.91 03:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I removed one of the listed criticisms on two grounds: 1) Germany was guaranteed a seed regardless as they were the host of the tournament. Tournament hosts have historically been given seeded positiions. 2) A similar system had been used in the prior World Cups, with the only major change in this one being that only the previous 2 rather than the previous 3 World Cup results were used to determine seeding.
Regarding Italy and Argentina totals[edit]
If you look in the pdf file from FIFA, the totals are rounded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.22.173.10 (talk) 11:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)