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Saturday, July 19, 2008
How the US has fared against each of the peer nations
Here are the US win-loss records for each of the peer nations:
New Zealand 0-9 Belgium 3-10 Japan 5-12 Portugal 5-10 Canada 7-11 Ireland 9-7
Overall 29-59
The order of the peer nations based on the head-to-head wins and losses against the US in 2008 is similar to the list that UK Maprunner put together. His list (based on results from 2001-2007) would rank these nations:
New Zealand 1.2 Japan 0.5 Belgium 0.4 Canada 0.4 Portugal 0.2 Ireland 0.1
In UK Maprunner's list, the US fits between Canada and Portugal, with the US having a score of 0.2.
It'll be interesting to compare these two lists with the results of tomorrow's relay race.