Context The world football governing body FIFA has been ranking international teams since 1992. This dataset contains all available FIFA men's international soccer rankings from August 1993 to April 2018. The rankings and points have been scraped from the official FIFA website. A more detailed explanation and history of the rankings is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Rankings An explanation of the ranking procedure is available here: https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/procedure/men.html Includes all ~200 teams and available data from 1993-2018. ---------- Content All features available on the FIFA ranking page (https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/index.html). * Rank * Country * Country Abbreviation * Total Points * Previous Points * Rank Change * Average Previous Years Points * Average Previous Years Points Weighted (50%) * Average 2 Years Ago Points * Average 2 Years Ago Points Weighted (30%) * Average 3 Years Ago Points * Average 3 Years Ago Points Weighted (20%) * Confederation ---------- Acknowledgements The data was scraped from the official fifa.com site (https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/index.html) Github Project: https://github.com/tadhgfitzgerald/fifa_ranking ---------- Inspiration With the world cup coming up in just a few months what better time to start exploring soccer datasets! * Look at how a teams ranking has evolved over the years. * Build a world cup predictor. * Correlate player performance and team ranking. * Who are the most consistent teams? Who are the least consistent? * Which confederation is the strongest? Which is the fastest improving? * Which team has been most dominant? Which has fallen off the most?