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Originally Posted by rogueteens
a ten place drop? that just shows how useless those ranking are. England played in one of the toughest if not the toughest group and yes, they lost to two teams but two well ranked teams while countries like Greece and the US has much easier groups. one competition equals a 10 place drop? nope!
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It is not just gaining points from this competition, but also losing points from 4 years ago. Ranking is the total of 48 months. You can drop even if you score good points current month, just because you lost your points from 49th month before current month.
A quote from some article:
It can be the case that a nation suffers a slump in the rankings even if its most recent results have been favourable. This is usually due to points being factored into a 12 month average, so if the accumulated points within the year haven?t been high, a fall can occur when better results from four years previous are discounted.