LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today unveiled baseball and softball's first-ever dedicated world rankings web platform at
http://rankings.wbsc.org.
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The new WBSC World Rankings website features robust functions such as tracking, trends, top climbers, charts, country-by-country comparisons, ranking by continent, points earned by each National Team/Federation per competition, methodology, and a world rankings news section in six languages -- English, French, Japan, Korean, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.
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WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari said:
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"Today marks a major milestone, as the baseball and softball world rankings web platform is now amongst the biggest of any sport.
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"WBSC is proud to unveil this new innovative service for the worldwide baseball-softball community and all WBSC's Members who have been requesting this.
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"On the commercial side, the world rankings are amongst WBSC's top generators of traffic as well as media and fan engagement, and we will soon be announcing a new rankings partner."
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WBSC oversees and manages baseball's and softball's official world rankings across four disciplines -- men's and women's baseball, and men's and women's softball -- and across 135 countries and territories.
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Tracking of the WBSC World Rankings is available dating back to the inception of the Baseball World Rankings in 2009 and the launch of the Softball World Rankings in 2016.
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With the launch of the new web platform, WBSC also released the final 2018 rankings in men's baseball and women's softball.
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