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According to the British newspaper The Times, Portugal is the 8th team with more chances (5.1%) to win this World Cup. However, this same prediction says France has more chance to win the World Cup then everybody else. I have no idea how they calculate that or the fact that Netherlands have 11% chance to win the tournament while their group mate Argentina has only 4.9%.


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By Luis | April 11th, 2006 at 11:37 am
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Ratings are always so confusing. Why not start our own top 10 most likely to win?

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By Pedro P | April 11th, 2006 at 11:54 am
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I also have no clue how they imagine France has currently higher chances than the rest. I don’t even think they have a better chance than the Czechs. It’d be sooooooo funny to see SWI beat FRA… IVC beat ARG, ARG beat HOL, HOL beat SM (just to shut them up with that “who’s got the biggest” talk in the blog next door) and SM beat IVC – there… What would this give?

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By Luis | April 11th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
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Brazil
Italy
Holland
Argentina
Portugal
Germany (real doubts)
England
Czech Rep.
Spain
Croatia

Oh and somewhere after 10th:

France

Don’t ask me to explain the list.

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By Bob | April 11th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
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Please explain the list :-)

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[...] Our Portugal blog tipped me to this table (click on it to make it readable) in The Times newspaper that shows the percentage chance that the various World Cup participants have to advance from their group, get to the quarterfinals, etc. The most startling finding is that France have the best chance of winning the tournament. This might be news to just about everyone, including the French. I decided to do some poking around to see how these numbers are calculated by the Decision Technology group at the University of Warwick. I could go on for hours explaining their computer models, but frankly I don’t understand any of it. Go ahead and have a look for yourself and maybe you can explain how these are the top ten teams most likely to win the World Cup. [...]

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By Luis Paulo | April 11th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
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France is on a easy group and will face a opponent from another easy group at the round of 16. So, that’s the prolem with math. Once their chances to get to the quater finals are so high it remains high even when they face better opponents on the next phases.

By Bense | April 11th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
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Top 10, without certain order:

Argentina
Brazil
England
Germany
France
Italy
Netherlands
Sweden
Czech Republic
Ukraine

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By Luis | April 11th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
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Man…you left out Portugal in the Portugal blog! :-)

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By Mike | April 11th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
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I don’t see how a teams quality isn’t directly related to their chances. France don’t have the quality of the Dutch, England or even Germany.

Brazil
Netherlands
Germany
England
Argentina
Italy
France
Spain
Czech Republic
Portugal

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By Ceasar Lourenco | April 11th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
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Mike, I think the theory is that 2 or 3 quality teams in one group would mean that automatically 1 quality team will be out? So their chances are slim, even though a much less talented team in an easier group might have a better chance of proceeding because the opposition is easier. Does that make any sense?
But this logic would only apply to the group and first knock-out stages. After that one would think it would rest on quality alone (luck being the same of course)??
So, based on that logic, France, Germany and Spain have an advantage (easier route thus higher percentage of preceeding). Where as Italy, Argentina and the Dutch arn’t so lucky…
Makes for a good discussion though.. :-) Great post Luis!

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By Mike | April 11th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
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Ya, great post. It’s pretty interesting to think about that I guess. Crazy Canuck with your plausable explanations…

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By Pedro P | April 12th, 2006 at 6:30 am
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PEOPLE,

the Eurosport voting for POR1966 is going TODAY:

http://www.eurosport.com/football/world-cup1/2006/wcteamcentury.shtml#

Just go there and vote. :-)

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