Highest Ranked National Sports Team by Country
Full credit to u/SirCharlesTupperware who came up with this idea 8 years ago
and who I was inspired by to update. Map created using mapchart, google
sheets and GIMP. You can see the source links, raw data and all my
calculation steps here.As
clarification on the concept I’ll give an example. Croatia’s Women’s
National Team is ranked 36th/43 in ice hockey, 59th/188 in football,
28th/118 in basketball, 45th/78 in field hockey, and 25th/73 in
volleyball. 28/118 is the smallest of these numbers, so they are ranked
the highest proportionally in basketball even though they have a higher
absolute ranking in volleyball. I thought the results of this analysis
created interesting results that are reflective of geographic
distributions in sports culture.
