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Morning Links: Player Ranking and Fashion Edition

6/10/2010

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* Soccernet unveiled its list of the Top 50 players of the 2010 World Cup a few weeks ago.  If you're not up to date on the current club and international form of the best in the world, this is a pretty good place to start.  Aside from a mysterious shortage of Germans -- something I can get behind, in any case -- it looks roughly correct to me.

* A far more detailed, probably bogus psuedo-scientific player rating analysis is available via the Castrol Rankings.  I'm suspicious of their positivism, of course, but since the statisticians are fated to take over all sports, eventually, so you might as well check it out.  Plus, charts showing that Fabio Cannavaro is in fact mediocre, and something called "The Ronaldo Zone!"  Mmmmm.

* Speaking of Ronaldo, I bet you wanted to see more pictures of his abs.  Apparently loincloths are in once again.  God love European chotches.

* For more fashion analysis, though, don't miss Uni Watch's jersey-by-jersey analysis of all 32 WC teams.  In sports uniforms, I'm a brittle reactionary, so I dig England and Argentina's classic looks most of all.  But I'm also looking forward to the USA doing battle against Team Charlie Brown.  

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Noah
6/10/2010 14:46:16

Love the Charlie Browns. But Ivory Coast is my favorite. Go team Stampy!

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Alec link
6/11/2010 05:46:22

'since the statisticians are fated to take over all sports, eventually, so you might as well check it out.'

Isn't this what happened to banking? It got taken over by peopel with impenetrable and relentlessly positivist (and indeed, positive) statistical models, that eventually led to Greece's biggest crisis since Sparta v. Persia? Let's put a stop to this now. If a stat can't be accommodated by the back of a baseball card, I don't want to know. Yes, slugging percentage, you can stay.

I'd offer to liveblog from London tomorrow, but I fear for my life.

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Alec
6/11/2010 05:47:13

Obviously, I was using the British spelling for 'peopel' there.

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