FIBA ranks both men's and women's national teams for both senior and junior competitions.
The ranking system compares teams based on the weighted average rating points they earn in games over the last eight years.
Other tournaments, such as regional championships, invitationals, three-on-three half-court basketball, and friendlies are not included.
[5][6] Every game played by a national team within the last eight years in the World Cup, Olympics, continental championships, and qualifiers for these events is included in the calculations.
[7] FIBA uses a weighted arithmetic mean to determine the average rating points a team has earned in games in the last eight years.
FIBA determines what it calls "opposition ranking points" by the following formula:[7] The new calculations continue to account for the specific tournament and region, as in the former procedure, but no longer explicitly consider a team's final tournament placement.
Games in pre-qualifiers, qualifiers and results of the losing team in final tournaments all carry a round weight of R=1.