How to pick a European winner 101
With the recent spate of surprising results
- Italy : Paraguay - 1:1
- Mexico : France - 2:0
- Spain : Switzerland - 0:1
- Serbia : Germany - 1:0
- Greece : Nigeria - 2:1 (If the Greeks thought that they could actually win a match, then there must have been some ouzo in that tsatsiki)
I've determined a formula on figuring out whether a European team will win their next group match. Take the Euro, then determine a country's relative GDP in comparison to overall European economy. The higher the relative GDP, the lower is that country's chance of winning a match.
How else can one explain Germany losing to Serbia and the Greeks winning anything but the lottery? :D
If one doesn't like this theory of football predictive analytics, I have heard that Maggie the Monkey is looking for work - she is excellent in hockey picks, stock analysis and manages Hedge Funds in her spare time.
BTW what a comeback! Who knew the Americans had that spirit! Best game of the World Cup so far but Honduras isn't looking that bad right, are they?
You were not way off on your prediction schema... just wrong animal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_%28octopus%29
Posted by: Lev | 07/19/2010 at 06:08 AM