With worldwide hockey motion coming thick and quick because the flip of 12 months, with the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers and a number of FIH Hockey Professional League mini-tournaments throughout Argentina and India, there was a shake-up within the FIH Hockey World Rankings.
Within the FIH Males’s World Rankings, Netherlands (3060) proceed to take a seat on the prime of the rankings. Netherlands got here away from their India leg of the FIH Professional League, comparatively unscathed, with two attracts in opposition to India and a loss to Australia, accounting for his or her solely dropped factors in 8 matches. Belgium (2848) proceed to carry on to the second place within the rankings after a robust exhibiting on the Olympic Qualifiers in Valencia, Spain.
Germany (2786) and India (2761) occupy the subsequent two spots within the rankings. Germany went unbeaten on the Olympic Qualifiers in Oman and adopted that up with two wins and two attracts in opposition to Argentina and a younger Belgian facet in the course of the Santiago del Estero mini match within the FIH Professional League to surpass India, whose direct qualification to the Olympic Video games by way of an Asian Video games gold, meant they didn’t should play within the Olympic Qualifiers.
Australia (2757), wanting resurgent with a mixture of youth and expertise, have been the stand out performers in the course of the FIH Professional League mini-tournament in India, and leapfrog England (2720) into fifth place. Argentina (2524) and Spain (2296) proceed to carry on to the seventh and eighth positions, as had been the case originally of the 12 months.
France (2085) stay in a robust ninth place as they proceed their preparations to play in entrance of their dwelling crowd at Paris 2024. Following intently behind are New Zealand (2025), making their method again into the top-10 following a spirited exhibiting on the Olympic Qualifiers in Oman, the place they pipped Pakistan within the bronze medal match to qualify for the upcoming Olympic Video games.
Korea (1915) will miss out on the Olympic Video games following their bronze medal loss in opposition to Eire (1869) on the Olympic Qualifiers in Valencia, however handle to remain forward of the Irish on the earth rankings in eleventh. Eire who’re nonetheless on the lookout for their first factors of their debut FIH Professional League season, stay twelfth. Malaysia (1828), South Africa (1812), Pakistan (1675) and Japan (1640) spherical out the top-16 within the males’s world rankings.
Within the FIH Girls’s World Rankings, Netherlands (3422) on the prime spot, stay properly away from the chasing pack, having received all 12 of their FIH Professional League season 5 matches so far. Argentina (2827) and Germany (2732) transfer forward of Australia into second and third locations following sturdy performances in the course of the Santiago del Estero mini-tournament of the FIH Professional League, the place they every received one in every of their head-to-head matchups, whereas registering two wins every in opposition to the younger Belgian facet.
Australia (2678) in fourth are adopted by Belgium (2499) who drop a spot on the again of 4 straight losses within the FIH Professional League, albeit with a younger and inexperienced facet, with many gamers getting their worldwide debuts in the course of the mini-tournament. England (2304) stay sixth on the earth rankings, adopted by Spain (2244) in seventh, who’ve closed the hole to England because of a robust exhibiting on the Olympic Qualifiers in Valencia, the place they completed second to qualify for Paris 2024.
China (2226) have been on a roll over the previous 12 months, and their performances in the course of the Indian mini-tournament of the FIH Professional League in February, sees them sit second within the Professional League desk, whereas additionally catapulting them forward of India (2215) on the earth rankings, into the eighth place. Lower than 100 factors separate England in sixth and India in ninth, exhibiting the intently contested nature of worldwide ladies’s hockey!
Japan (2001) are again into the top-10, following their victory in opposition to India within the bronze medal match on the Olympic Qualifiers in India, which noticed them qualify for Paris 2024 on the expense of the upper ranked hosts.
New Zealand (1951) and Korea (1814) additionally missed out on Olympic qualification however maintain on to eleventh and twelfth on the world rankings, forward of USA (1790), who climb to 13, following their sturdy marketing campaign on the Olympic Qualifiers in India, which sees them return to Olympic Video games Paris 2024, after lacking out on the earlier version.
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The rankings calculations mannequin that FIH launched on 1st January 2020 moved away from the earlier tournament-based rankings system to a dynamic, match-based technique the place opposing groups change factors in official, FIH sanctioned video games. The variety of factors exchanged will depend on the results of the match, the relative rating of the groups and the significance of the match. Extra details about the brand new rankings mannequin could be discovered under.
How the FIH World Rankings work:
The variety of factors exchanged will depend on the results of the match, the relative rating of the groups and the significance of the match.
FIH World Rankings defined:
- Based mostly on the Elo score system, which is used as the premise of many different sports activities rating methods
- When two nations play in opposition to one another, various rating factors are exchanged between them
- In each match, the variety of factors gained by one workforce is precisely matched by the variety of factors misplaced by the opposite
- Groups will win extra factors for beating groups ranked above them, and due to this fact groups will lose extra factors for shedding to a workforce ranked under them
- Groups will win much less factors for beating groups ranked under them, and due to this fact groups will lose much less factors for shedding to a workforce ranked above them
- If a draw happens, the decrease ranked workforce will acquire a small variety of factors and the upper ranked workforce will lose the identical variety of factors
- The variety of factors exchanged depends on the results of the match (win, lose, shootout win/loss or draw), the significance of the match (a part of a significant match, or a take a look at sequence for instance), and the relative distinction in rating factors between the groups earlier than the match.
Extra particulars in regards to the method used within the algorithm, weightings of matches and different components could be discovered HERE along with a Ceaselessly Requested Questions doc HERE.