Talk:2006 FIFA World Cup seeding

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Italy appear to have more points than Argentina, but they're further down the table - someone should check this out. Crobzub 22:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

There seems to be a catch-22 in the rankings, they use previous world cup results as a basis for getting in to this world cup. worse teams that have previously made it can beat out better teams that haven't. 24.237.198.91 03:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I removed one of the listed criticisms on two grounds: 1) Germany was guaranteed a seed regardless as they were the host of the tournament. Tournament hosts have historically been given seeded positiions. 2) A similar system had been used in the prior World Cups, with the only major change in this one being that only the previous 2 rather than the previous 3 World Cup results were used to determine seeding.

Regarding Italy and Argentina totals

If you look in the pdf file from FIFA, the totals are rounded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.22.173.10 (talk) 11:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)