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CubanMissile posted:Oh my Mexico's goalkeeper is awful. She's also Leroux and HAO's teammate in Boston, so they know all the weak spots.
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Hoover Dam posted:She's also Leroux and HAO's teammate in Boston, so they know all the weak spots. There are plenty of them to pick. Holy poo poo. She's made some epic dives for balls that are in no danger of going anywhere though.
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Sep 4, 2013 01:48
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Hoover Dam posted:She's also Leroux and HAO's teammate in Boston, so they know all the weak spots. Ah, interesting.
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Please score off this FK  E: AHHHHAHAHAHAHAHA YES! Holy gently caress how is Mexico THIS bad?
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Sep 4, 2013 01:50
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Hoover Dam posted:She's also Leroux and HAO's teammate in Boston, so they know all the weak spots. She's gonna hate Sydney.
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Sep 4, 2013 01:51
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Man, this is just getting stupid. Not that I have a problem with it or anything.
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Sep 4, 2013 01:52
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I hope this goes to Diez a Cero.
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Sep 4, 2013 01:53
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Akbar posted:She's gonna hate Sydney. She'll find a lot of support in Canada. Now our neighbors to north and south and be unified.
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Sep 4, 2013 01:53
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JP Money posted:Holy gently caress how is Mexico THIS bad? By being mostly youngsters with not a hell of a lot of support back home. Same as a lot of women's teams that you think would be good like their men's, buuuut... SPAIN I'M LOOKING AT YOU
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Sep 4, 2013 01:59
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That one goal was the most  thing I have ever seen
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Sep 4, 2013 02:02
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Also, both Shannon Boxx and Heather Mitts announced pregnancies today.
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Sep 4, 2013 02:26
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I wish I had been able to go to the game. 
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Sep 4, 2013 02:39
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Happy to see another Florida Gator playing for the USWNT. I thought she was great in college and was glad she did well in the NWSL, but I never really expected to see Tymrak make it to the senior side.
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Sep 4, 2013 02:44
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Sep 7, 2013 05:03
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shoplifter posted:Are McBride and Hejduk available Tuesday? Hedjuk definitely is! Dude lives there. If we're going there, I want Earnie Stewart as well
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Sep 7, 2013 05:07
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John O'Brien's probably all healed up too.
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Sep 7, 2013 05:11
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Drogadon and other thread Ticos: Please tell me you're now going to run with Tres a Uno the way we do Dos a Cero. It's only fair.
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Sep 7, 2013 05:13
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I know it's good for laughs but wouldn't it have been better if Mexico had won?
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Sep 7, 2013 05:15
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Hoover Dam posted:Drogadon and other thread Ticos: Please tell me you're now going to run with Tres a Uno the way we do Dos a Cero. It's only fair.
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Sep 7, 2013 05:16
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Crazy Ted posted:That would be pointless because they always beat the United States at home. We clearly need to change our tactics and introduce cows with bullhorns in Ohio.
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Sep 7, 2013 05:18
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Niwrad posted:I know it's good for laughs but wouldn't it have been better if Mexico had won? Probably. Who cares.
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Sep 7, 2013 06:28
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Dos a Cero: Best score or bestest score?
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Sep 11, 2013 03:33
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USA up to 13 in the FIFA rankings. Kind of cool i guess
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Crunkjuice posted:USA up to 13 in the FIFA rankings. Kind of cool i guess Slightly more important as we head into the World Cup draw
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Sep 13, 2013 00:03
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What would it take at this point, short of a check to Blatter, to get seeded?
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Sep 13, 2013 00:08
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Robot Danger posted:Slightly more important as we head into the World Cup draw Not unless you make it into top 8 and I think these rankings are the ones that will be used for the draw.
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Crunkjuice posted:USA up to 13 in the FIFA rankings. I know these rankings are often pretty questionable. Honestly, where do you all think we legitimately rank in the world right now? If we were to match-up against each of the top 50 in this ranking by FIFA, how many teams would we actually be favored to defeat in a competitive, neutral site fixture? Curious as to what others think.
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Sep 13, 2013 03:18
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Hegav posted:Not unless you make it into top 8 and I think these rankings are the ones that will be used for the draw. Theoretically. In reality the seeds are determined by who FIFA wants to get seeded. It's not happening for us, so for the most part it's irrelevant to anyone outside of like CAF.
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jack3485 posted:I know these rankings are often pretty questionable. Honestly, where do you all think we legitimately rank in the world right now? If we were to match-up against each of the top 50 in this ranking by FIFA, how many teams would we actually be favored to defeat in a competitive, neutral site fixture? Curious as to what others think. I think anyone in the 10-25 range can beat each other on any given day, but you still have to earn the points to acquire your ranking. That's where your premise is kind of meaningless. To be top 15, you have to be consistently good over a long stretch of time and the US has been.
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Sep 13, 2013 03:38
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We were somehow 4th a few months before the 2006 World Cup, which was kind of baffling
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Sep 13, 2013 03:41
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Real Name Grover posted:We were somehow 4th a few months before the 2006 World Cup, which was kind of baffling Arena played off-date cupcake friendlies about once every two weeks. That'll inflate anyone's grades. Notice since Bradley came in, and Klinsmann after, the only off-date friendlies have been the traditional January MLS/Scandinavia camp and something around Memorial Day.
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Hoover Dam posted:Arena played off-date cupcake friendlies about once every two weeks. That'll inflate anyone's grades. Notice since Bradley came in, and Klinsmann after, the only off-date friendlies have been the traditional January MLS/Scandinavia camp and something around Memorial Day. I'm sure they change the ruled whenever Sepp wants, but I thought unofficial games didn't count for ranking now?
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Nope, friendliest count for about 1/3 of a competitive match. I think. The FIFA site isn't all that coherent in parts.
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joshtothemaxx posted:Nope, friendliest count for about 1/3 of a competitive match. I think. The FIFA site isn't all that coherent in parts. Even non-FIFA date friendlies?
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The "Importance" multipliers are 1x for friendlies, 2.5x for World Cup qualifiers, 3x for confederation tournament matches, and 4x for the World Cup. So in fact the Gold Cup matches counted for more than the qualifiers do. Interestingly enough, the Bosnia friendly also counted for slightly more than usual, because UEFA is a stronger confederation than CONCACAF is.
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Lamont Cranston posted:The "Importance" multipliers are 1x for friendlies, 2.5x for World Cup qualifiers, 3x for confederation tournament matches, and 4x for the World Cup. So in fact the Gold Cup matches counted for more than the qualifiers do. Interestingly enough, the Bosnia friendly also counted for slightly more than usual, because UEFA is a stronger confederation than CONCACAF is. Wow, and I feel like we've been half assing the Gold Cup. Does the fact we have it twice as often also boost that? If the US went full tilt, I think they could get seeded, despite probably not being that good.
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The full calculation (as far as I understand it) is: Result (3/1/0) * Importance * Strength of opponent (200 - their ranking, with a minimum of 50 I believe) * Confederation multiplier Confederation multiplier is a measure of the confed's strength, so UEFA/CONMEBOL get a 1, CONCACAF has 0.88, etc. Bosnia counted more because when playing a different confederation the multipliers are averaged, so instead of the .88 we get for playing other CONCACAF nations, we got .94. So Gold Cup matches for us are effectively .88 * 3 = 2.64, whilst say a European championship qualifier gets 1 * 2.5 = 2.5. Plus the strength of the sides we play in the Gold Cup are probably lower on average than a lot of the teams in UEFA. I think it all evens out in the end.
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