Arizona Scott
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Correct. It uses the Elo Points System which has the gap a lot wider now.
ESP Spain
Level 1 (20 teams) ⌀1736
ENG England
Level 1 (20 teams) ⌀1709
ITA Italy
Level 1 (20 teams) ⌀1634
GER Germany
Level 1 (18 teams) ⌀1680
FRA France
Level 1 (20 teams) ⌀1580
POR Portugal
Level 1 (18 teams) ⌀1490
http://clubelo.com/
Learned a good stat today, thanks.
I'll add another source for clubs, FiveThirtyEight. They are very good taking existing information while also accounting for issues such as potential sample bias in their estimates. As an example there could be bias in Elo rankings because inter league matches are not played randomly (not going to get Barca vs Fulham). https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/global-club-soccer-rankings/ If anyone has the time to rank the leagues based on 538 that is awesome--but I think it is going to pretty close to data from Club ELO, transfermarket, uefa country rankings, etc. However there is not enough consistency in these data to conclusively say EPL is the best or La Liga is the best. They change 1-2 rank based on the metric, to really know we would need La Liga and EPL teams from 1-20 randomly playing each other, at times the players are equally fatigued, at times clubs from those nations are equally motivated vs other matches and competitions--you can see the problem.