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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jdvn1" data-source="post: 2935828" data-attributes="member: 26424">Something occured to me the other day, though I could be wrong about this.Someone had mentioned earlier that the format of the tournament is silly--that there should be more games (ie, best of 2, 3, etc) in each round and to do away with the third place match.The big disadvantage of this that I can see is that it messes with the goal scorer of the tournament. Like, as it is now, the top four teams have the best chance of having a player be the top scorer of the tournament (and to claim that coveted prize), since they play the most games. If it were a best of n, then any other team would have absolutely no chance to get this. (as it is now, tied for second includes Argentine and Brazilian players) If you did away with the third place game, that'd mean the top scorer would most likely be from the top two teams. The setup, now, allows for a larger number of teams to at least have a chance for this.Then it occured to me that the loser of the third-place game kind of gets shafted.To my knowledge, international rankings are based on number of wins and loses. A team that loses in the semi-finals and then loses the third-place game (ie, Portugal, technically fourth place) suffers two loses, but a team that loses in the quarter-finals (ie, Brazil) only suffers one loss. That puts an advantage in international rankings to the quarter-final losers over the fourth place team.Not that there's necessarily a huge difference, and not that it matters a lot, but it's certainly an odd quirk that the fourth place team would have that happen.</blockquote>

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