Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/tadhgfitzgerald/fifa-international-soccer-mens-ranking-1993now

Tools: Python Plotnine Library

Semifinals

Nice data. Interesting to see how Argentina and France have been consistent powerhouses while Croatia and Monaco have had ups and downs

What the hell happened in Croatia

Most of the Balkans were involved in Wars of independence/With eachother during the early 90s.

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Oh yeah I forgot about that little part of history.

So were they good at soccer before too or?

I want to see Morocco win just because they're the last team anyone would've expected to win

Well the Yugoslavian team that preceded them was pretty decent. They were runners up in the Euros a few times and had some knockout stage appearances in the WC.

It came into existence.

What does England look like on there?

It's Morocco

I don't. I think the team deserves it but the fans whistling all game long when the opponent has posession ruins watching the game

Sorry, England is out of the picture.

0 is actually not at the top of the Y-axis?

I’m sorry, that’s a down vote from me, dataisNOTbeautiful.

Why is only up to 2018? Ranking up until later this year is widely available, no reason to exclude it.

Would be on average a little above Croatia (without the massive climb on the right that Croatia had after becoming independent). Nearly always top 20, often top 10, rarely top 5 until recently

Croatia has been at war in the first part of this graph, and later is pretty consistent I would say.

So, the fans support the team? The audacitty!!

Cheering for a team or whistling against a team are two different actions. They are the only team whistling against opponents, really sad.

Weird. Also, rankings have been updated every month or two for the entire period. We have maybe 8x as many data points available as have been plotted.

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Did you watch the 2010 world cup? Have you heard of vuvuzelas? Dude, give me whistling any time.

Tell me your American without telling me your American.

Not American, sorry to disappoint

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I cannot tell if you’re joking or serious!

Dead serious.

There is space above the 0 on the Y-axis. Big no-no. It gives the impression of there being a possibility of going below (literally above in this case) 0.

Lol that happens every time. Football hooligans are full of shitheads, no matter the nationality

They are quite literally not the only team doing thatlol. Plus supporters=/team

This guy doesn’t watch football.

It's also ridiculous that 0 is the top value when the ranking goes to 1, not 0

This sub is called data is beautiful, not boilerplate ggplot. This belongs more into r/soccer, as the visualization is boring and the data doesn't tell clever story.

and teams change so much in 4 years. Morocco might’ve been 41 in 2018 but they were 22 coming into this tournament. Totally changes the message of the graph.

I'd like to see the 'then rankings' of the 'then SFinalists' for every WC.

Would be fun to see where all lower ranked teams did well kn an average...

Croatia joined FIFA in 1992 - the early low ranking reflects they were new to the ranking system rather than performance.

(Prior to independence in 1991 Croatia was part of Yugoslavia)

Then you really have bigger things to cry about

This is the real reason why I hate this graph. It should be a 1, not a 0.

Yep, that’s another one.

2022 rankings:

Argentina: 3

France: 4

Croatia: 12

Morocco: 22

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I like the idea, but could do one that uses the football ELO rankings? They tend to be more accurate less random then Fifa's official ones

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Not OP, but what would be a more interesting World Cup related visualization you would have liked to see?

How do you like this plotnine lib?

Pretty new to using it, but it's nice if you like to work with ggplot

It's the first time an African country made it to the quarter finals ever

You and your wild excuses

Lmao, go watch golf or something. This is basically like saying, I don't like football because the goalie is allowed to use his hands

The 2022 World Cup and honor don't go together.

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God damn why did Croatia explode in like 1992?

Auto correct hates me!

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Current rankings are 3,4,12 and 22

cause they didn't exist as a country before then

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You know your can correct the y axis to say start from 1, not zero

This chart is not beautiful

Looks like this is semifinalists

Let's not count the year leading up to and including COVID. Totally skews the data.

As a member of the whistlers gang I was deeply impressed by vuvuzela.

I don't know how we didn't drop out of the top 12 in 2010 considering we missed the world cup that year.

This makes a lot more sense

Anything using real time field position would be awesome, but the data engineering needed to get this data probably makes it unrealistic

Using data from this year would be a start.

Given the complete unpredictability of the current championship, this data will hardly help those who place bets with backmakers. I won't be too surprised if Morocco becomes world champion this time.

how tf did france go down to 25

Stupid graphic. France won the world cup in 2018 and was ranked 1st for a while... We don't see the team under rank 5...

The last team anyone expected to win was the toon squad in space jam

Because they were literally exploding from 1991-1992 (and war continued until 1995)

Also, semifinalists, not quarterfinalist (Portugal, England, Brasil and Netherlands not in the chart)

Unnecessary animation.

/s

There’s lower effort content out there - but not by much.

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Mid 00s is seen as a disaster time in France though lol.

Where would you source this data? Sounds like a huge proprietary data investment