Ranking the European Top-Five-Leagues
Discover where your favorite team stands among Europe's elite.
Welcome to Rank-O-Football, your ultimate destination for comprehensive team rankings across Europe's top football leagues. Our innovative approach employs network science and AI to offer a truly objective ranking system.
Why Rank-O-Football?
- Revolutionary Method: We've developed a unique algorithm that objectively ranks teams not just within their leagues, but across all of Europe.
- Data-Driven Analysis: No hidden weights, no subjective biases. Our rankings are purely based on performance data from all national and European competitions.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Featuring all teams from the five top European leagues, ensuring a complete and inclusive ranking system.
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Current top-3-teams/leagues:
| Rank |
Team |
| 1 | Real Madrid |
| 2 | Leverkusen |
| 3 | Man City |
| Rank |
League |
| 1 | Primera Division |
| 2 | Serie A |
| 3 | Premier League |
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Method and sources
The ranking uses an adapted version of Google's page-rank algorithm.
We include all games of the five European top leagues (England, Germany, Spain, Italy, France) plus all their games in the Champions League and Europa League.
With that we construct a graph where teams are the nodes of the graph. A win in a game is a directed link from the loser to the winner.
Page rank is used to convert into a Markovian network and its steady state gives the respective points for each team.
What do the points mean? Loosely speaking, positive numbers mean that the team has won more often than lost. Negative numbers mean the team lost more often than won. However, by construction of the page rank algorithm, the strength of the opposite team is important. E.g., a win against a top team counts more than a win against a team at the end of the table.
This also implies that the number of games that a team has played is not important. In other words, the method allows to compare teams that have played different number of games (for instance because they do or do not participate in the international leagues.)
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