Football World Cup 2018 Prediction Contest

My prediction started to look a lot more promising with yesterday's Argentina - Iceland draw ;) However, France won't win the title with the kind of performance they showed against Australia, so they should add more... Actually, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for England, but unfortunately, even as a fan, I can't predict more than a quarter-final for them, but they could make it there if things go well and if they're lucky ;D

You yourself understand what you are talking about :D After the group games, we can only summarize something.

Erm, I haven't said anything about a summary, so you're the one who probably doesn't understand what I'm talking about... But the group standings after the 1st round are as follows: A 1. Russia 3 2. Uruguay 3 3. Egypt 0 4. Saudi Arabia 0 B 1. Iran 3 2. Portugal 1 3. Spain 1 4. Morocco 0 C 1. France 3 2. Denmark 3 3. Australia 0 4. Peru 0 D 1. Croatia 3 2. Iceland 1 3. Argentina 1 4. Nigeria 0 E 1. Serbia 3 2. Brazil 1 3. Switzerland 1 4. Costa Rica 0 F 1. Sweden 3 2. Mexico 3 3. South Korea 0 4. Germany 0 G 1. Belgium 3 2. England 3 3. Tunisia 0 4. Panama 0 And since you mentioned To sum up, we can say that there have been many surprising results, as is usual in major tournaments, and the group standings in several groups, especially in groups B, D, E and F, are also surprising, but they will definitely change. And there will be plenty of surprises ;]

Well, the forum is still completely bugged here! When I press the Preview button, it posts instead, which is very annoying, because I also use it for incomplete or unfinished posts. Now, I forgot to mention that the Group H games have not yet been played, so they are today.

So, now the standings of Group H after the 1st round are also available, so I'll show it so that everyone can calculate how many points they would get for the subgroups if the standings remained like this (although in most groups it probably won't) ;D Once again, there were surprising results, so that a total of 5 subgroups out of 8 are now in a ranking that most did not expect. H 1.-2. Japan - 3 1.-2. Senegal - 3 3.-4. Poland - 0 3.-4. Colombia - 0 You put the places up for grabs, since the goal differences are also equal.

I hope you enjoy this World Cup as much as I do, I'll post the table tomorrow evening.

Big mess - footballers can't play according to my/our prediction https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/groups/

Well, it seems that nothing very good is coming, I did bet on the G-group, but about 38 other forecasters did the same, or a little more than half. In total, I bet on the winner in 5 subgroups, but what definitely brings down the points is that no team was bet correctly in the B- and F-groups :/

I made a small Excel spreadsheet where I entered the predictions and actual results. An unofficial interim summary after the group tournament among the predictors could be the following (number of correctly placed group winners in brackets): 1. naitleja 47 2. Snickers 46 3. striibu 41 4. Mets58 40 tihemets 40 6. Meelemyrk 39 7. Tarzan 36 (6) 8. stevu123 36 (5) 9. dotsent 35 (5) ken112 35 (5) imrek 35 (5) tanel92 35 (5) 13. antsuonu 35 (4) 14. Lolllaps 34 (6) sirkivi 34 (6) nagla_vend 34 (6) saltsss 34 (6) taavitaavi 34 (6) Tooto 34 (6) 20. pouel40 34 (5) 21. TiiT 33 (6) 22. hagar 33 (4) Neve 33 (4) 24. jämpsikas 32 siuz 32 Davis 32 27. CarpeDiem 31 (6) babahh 31 (6) kämby 31 (6) LadyinRed 31 (6) 31. Lokster9 31 (4) 32. kuakua 30 (6) sillerberg 30 (6) 2ez4rtz 30 (6) 35. triinu5 30 (5) 36. ullass 30 (4) 37. Valve 30 (3) 38. Tujurikkuja1 29 (6) mustvalge 29 (6) 40. georgr 29 (5) malezone 29 (5) Raknari 29 (5) 43. direktor 29 (4) 44. heless 29 (3) 45. Krubi 28 (6) kallur 28 (6) 47. silverhill 28 (4) 48. Liidia 28 (3) 49. Sildur 28 (2) 50. driv4r 27 (5) 51. poiss 27 (4) 52. SohvaKunn 27 (3) 53. kermole 27 (1) 54. riks2005 26 (5) kiaart 26 (5) 56. rabapalm 26 (3) 57. setu 26 (2) 58. qaismodo 25 59. pisipaha 24 60. olivervalk 23 (5) trew234 23 (5) 62. raidop 23 (4) 63. marx 22 (5) 64. olivia 22 (4) 65. Rambo95 21 (5) 66. anduma 21 (3) 67. regynts 20 I made several observations while making the table. With 94% accuracy, we correctly predicted both advancers from groups B (Spain-Portugal) and G (Belgium-England). Absolutely everyone placed Germany among the advancers, which is why the average prediction accuracy of advancers from subgroup F is less than one. Similarly, the prediction accuracy is also less than one in group H (instead of Japan, Poland could have been predicted to advance). The prediction accuracy of the actor and Snickers is amazing. In the case of even five (!) subgroups, the entire ranking was correct. 5*8=40 and from there they also have a small lead in the current standings.

Germany will make me even richer.