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How are these ratings calculated? These ratings are calculated iteratively : A) In the first iteration, all teams get value 5.00 then : A1) for every match, for each team, a score is calculated as the sum of – the goal difference – the opponents’ value – the correction for venue (+0.75 for the away team, -0.75 for the home team, 0 if on neutral ground) – the score for winning of penalty shootout (+0.5 for the winning team, -0.5 for the loser) A2) then the score is adjusted by: – time played (extra time counts as 1.333 match) – importance of match (friendlies only counts as 0.5) Thus the score for France in the World Cup final was 7.50 (5.00 + 3 – 0 – 0.5), the score for Brazil being 2.50 (5.00 – 3 + 0.5). A3) For every team, the average is calculated of all these scores. This becomes the first approximation of the rating for that team. For Brazil, this first average was 6.47 (after the 1998 World Cup final), for France, it was 6.10. B) In the second iteration, the value of each team is
