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Friday, November 18, 2016

2018 World Cup simulations (18 November 2016)

The usual 10000 simulations, based on the current Elo ratings and including results up to 15 November 2016.

The play-offs are also simulated, with a slight twist: I used Elo ratings to seed the UEFA play-off draw.


Previous simulations (14 October 2016).

Taking into account the actual group distribution, these are the teams most likely to make it to Russia:

Congo DR and South Africa replace Tunisia and Senegal. The race is very close in their groups.

AFC: Iran, Korea Republic, Japan, Australia
CAF: Egypt, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo DR, South Africa
CONCACAF: Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, USA
CONMEBOL: Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Colombia
UEFA: Germany, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Republic of Ireland, Portugal, Netherlands, Iceland


99.93% - Brazil
99.78% - Germany
98.93% - Mexico
97.37% - Costa Rica
96.6% - England
96.29% - France
95.7% - Uruguay
92.39% - Iran
92.34% - Belgium
89.36% - Spain
88.47% - Chile
88.38% - Argentina
87.99% - Poland
83.62% - Switzerland
82.3% - Italy
81.1% - Egypt
80.99% - Croatia
80.74% - Republic of Ireland
79.91% - Korea Republic
79.23% - Portugal
78.28% - Japan
77.12% - Nigeria
76.39% - Côte d'Ivoire
75.55% - Panama
74.5% - Australia
59.8% - Colombia
59.73% - USA
50.19% - Congo DR
49.86% - Netherlands
49.23% - Ecuador
48.53% - Tunisia
45.32% - Uzbekistan
41.13% - South Africa
40.49% - Senegal
36.05% - Saudi Arabia
31.75% - Iceland
31.68% - Serbia
31.5% - Bosnia and Herzegovina
28.41% - United Arab Emirates
22.63% - Ukraine
18.8% - Turkey
17.7% - Slovakia
17.61% - Sweden
17.48% - Honduras
17.43% - Burkina Faso
16.14% - Wales
14.04% - Cameroon
13.95% - Morocco
13.42% - Denmark
13.33% - Uganda
11.74% - Montenegro
11.48% - Greece
9.81% - Slovenia
9.6% - Romania
8.66% - New Zealand
8.29% - Northern Ireland
8.11% - Czech Republic
7.86% - Peru
7.12% - Algeria
6.33% - Scotland
6.18% - Trinidad and Tobago
5.76% - Austria
5.16% - Mali
5.12% - Ghana
4.97% - Qatar
4.5% - Gabon
3.99% - Syria
3.67% - Hungary
2.34% - Israel
1.72% - Zambia
1.51% - Paraguay
1.18% - Bulgaria
0.95% - Cape Verde Islands
0.92% - Guinea
0.63% - Norway
0.57% - Iraq
0.45% - Congo
0.37% - China PR
0.36% - Libya
0.21% - Fiji
0.16% - Armenia
0.15% - Belarus
0.13% - Lithuania
0.11% - Albania
0.1% - Tahiti
0.07% - Azerbaijan
0.06% - New Caledonia
0.05% - Georgia
0.05% - Papua New Guinea
0.04% - Finland
0.04% - Solomon Islands
0.02% - Kazakhstan

Top 10 based on difference between these sims and those ran last time:


Chile 88.47 54.08 34.39
Republic of Ireland 80.74 54.13 26.61
Poland 87.99 61.95 26.04
Nigeria 77.12 51.94 25.18
Panama 75.55 51.52 24.03
Congo DR 50.19 34.51 15.68
Egypt 81.1 66.43 14.67
Côte d'Ivoire 76.39 63.07 13.32
South Africa 41.13 27.98 13.15
Burkina Faso 17.43 5.01 12.42

Bottom 10 based on difference between these sims and those ran last time:


Paraguay 1.51 22.81 -21.3
Colombia 59.8 80.9 -21.1
Senegal 40.49 60.28 -19.79
Romania 9.6 29.35 -19.75
USA 59.73 78.5 -18.77
Cameroon 14.04 29.53 -15.49
Austria 5.76 20.24 -14.48
Trinidad and Tobago 6.18 20.26 -14.08
Montenegro 11.74 24.86 -13.12
Guinea 0.92 13.81 -12.89
 
Top 10 based on difference between these sims and those ran before the qualifiers:


Nigeria 77.12 29.81 47.31
Uruguay 95.7 50.78 44.92
Republic of Ireland 80.74 38.23 42.51
Egypt 81.1 40.75 40.35
Switzerland 83.62 43.88 39.74
Poland 87.99 58.14 29.85
Iran 92.39 63.6 28.79
Croatia 80.99 54.9 26.09
Panama 75.55 50.46 25.09

Bottom 10 based on difference between these sims and those ran before the qualifiers:


Ghana 5.12 36.46 -31.34
Algeria 7.12 34.99 -27.87
Guinea 0.92 27.2 -26.28
Peru 7.86 33.35 -25.49
Wales 16.14 41.54 -25.4
Turkey 18.8 42.87 -24.07
Colombia 59.8 82.89 -23.09
Denmark 13.42 35.83 -22.41
Romania 9.6 29.32 -19.72
USA 59.73 79.41 -19.68


About me:

Christian, husband, father x 3, programmer, Romanian. Started the blog in March 2007. Quit in April 2018. You can find me on LinkedIn.

6 comments:

  1. This kind of statistics made me glad I discovered this site. Please, keep it up.

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    1. i agree totally

      the only improvement i would make is expanding the top 10 tables to top 20/25 or showing the month previous and change form month previous in the main table

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  2. Should we start talking about the mess the 2026 World Cup is shaping to be?

    UEFA out of FIFA, please.

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  3. The dates for 2017 rankings have been announced: 19 October, 23 November.

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  4. I generally like your site very much, but from a mathematical point of view I am not sure about the value. If one single match lead to increase or decline of chances by up to 30%, the correctness of the first value of chances for qualifying is quite unstable.

    One question: Did you ever run such a 10.000 calculation run twice at the same point of time? I wonder what will be the abbrevation from the 1st to the 2nd run. If it is greater than let us say 3%, then "luck" is to much a factor for me in your simulations. In that case, it is maybe suitable to increase to 100.000 or 1.000.000 simulations.

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    1. Between two runs of the Confed Cup sims, the max difference was 2.33%.

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