Little but disorganizing error

[BlackIbanez]

I have this query in one of my pages:

$query = mysql_query("SELECT Id, team, points, games, gf, ga FROM standings ORDER BY points desc") or die(mysql_error());

The page is a soccer page, where the query above gets the information from the rows and orders it by the points that each team has.
Now that the teams have points with 2 digit numbers (ie: 11, 14), the standings look like:

1. Team A - 9 points
2. Team B - 7 points
3. Team C - 3 points
4. Team D - 13 points
5. Team E - 1 point

So what's happening, the query is ordering the results not in a proper descending way. It puts the double digits on top of the last team, and not in first place..

How can I fix this error?!

Thanx in advance

[maxpup979]

you are storing the team points in varchar or text fields. change them to ints