why??\nis there another ranking system out there??
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I don't think so, because you will never get every team to play every other team. Some countries play 1-2 internationals per year.\n\nIt is a relative ranking system. Thats why sometimes a team ranked 100 might beat a team ranked 20.
3297
The limit has always been there, but now you can answer more points per level.  The reason is that if there was no such system, a spammer can create a new id and spam the system with hundreds of irrelevant questions and answers.  This way, when you get above a certain level, you've built some trust in the community and you get to ask/answer more questions.\n\nYou'll see some changes in the point systems as Yahoo! fine tunes the product.  It is still in beta, after all.
42268
They show the people with the highest points, in descending order.  No, not everyone is on it, only those who are way up there in points, :-).
64309
Good question. Unfortunately, there are very mixed motives involved in the current classification system. Those who play in leagues or tournaments usually want the lowest rating they can get so they can win. Those who use the rating to let others know how good they are, usually want to be rated higher.\nIf you are "accurately" rated, you will likely be mismatched against those who fudge. This encourages a downward push such that those who previously might have been 5.0s, for example, are now 4.5s.\nRatings now appear to be based first on your self-assessment, which is frequently falsified, and secondly on your results. I know that players will lose a few matches on purpose just to avoid being moved up a level. This clearly is not in the best interests of the game or in fair competition.\nSo, I do not believe the system is effective in accurately classifying players.
33891
why not?! Most of my botfriends are usually in a hinger grade than me. Sometimes it is better that way.
522943
i agree, i dont see how losing to the #1 team by only 3 points makes u drop in the ranking especially when the other teams lost to worse teams by a larger margin
692
i've yet to see anything in the UI that shows the "ladder" so to speak. i know of about 3 people that have reached level 3 and if you choose me as the right answer, i'll be closer :-) at this time, i don't think there's anyone at 4 or 5 given the daily limits.
490989
Fair enough, but I believe that's a two-way street.\n\n(I use the rating system all the time)
88199
You need to get links from other websites to yours.  Thats about it.  The more related and highly ranked the linking website is, the better your rank will be.\n\nI have the same problem.  I don't even rank for the company name unless you put it in speech marks.
427477
I'm confused.  How in the world can you tell who gave you a thumb's up, or a thumb's down?  You can't.  You can only make educated guesses.  Those ratings can be given by anyone, even someone just passing by & reading without responding by a post.
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Without some sort of merit system, where is the incentive to preform or produce results? If "employee A" comes in on time, works hard, and produces results and "employee B" is the opposite, why should they be paid the same? If they are, "employee B" eventually reailzes his great work ethic isn't getting him anywhere and stops working so hard. No results, no money, no company - everyone loses their job!
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They may have been thinking of the ranking by NIH grants.  I'm sure lots of people rank the residencies informally, but I'll bet the residency directors hate that.  At least the lower ranking ones do.  Anyway here's where you can find the ranks based on NIH grants (so you're talking research here)
326579
i am considering that too but it's alot of work. so, i don't know. you need high grades also. there is alot of competitions. \nand ofcourse there are many people who fail...
623970
This is the rankings as they are now, direct from FIFA website: http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/index/0,2548,All-May-2006,00.html\n\nThis website explains ranking system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Rankings
5579
No.  It should be hard to get a high ranking.  That way a high ranking actually means something.\n\nIf points were easy, they wouldn't have any meaning what so ever.
602151
Maybe its an inferiority complex!! 8o) LMAO Thanx
409976
You are a very smart person. However, I don't think it should be linear - I think maybe the normal points for a BA with up to five answers, then gradually getting more points, with a special award for the highest ever achieved on Yahoo, perhaps 100 points for that as well.