Finally, the World Cup is upon us. Today we see a couple of Group A clashes with the hosts Germay taking on Costa Rica, and Poland squaring off against Ecuador. You’ve had months to study the teams and predict the group winners. Today’s your chance to predict the outcome of these two [...]

For more than three months now I have asked you a Big Question each day. From serious to silly, you have dutiful responded with excellent answers and insights. Today’s question is the biggest of them all. It is the one that billions of people around this planet are asking one another. [...]

Everyone is a prognosticator before the World Cup starts, but very few of us will be talking about our picks after they don’t come true. Taking a look at the teams many of you are selecting to win the World Cup, I must say that you have it all wrong. But at least [...]

Details are still unconfirmed, but reports coming out of England indicate that someone in that country has predicted that Brazil will win the upcoming World Cup tournament. Sources claim that a group of academic and commercial researchers, “boffins” if you’re from the right part of the globe, have a computer model that will pick [...]

There’s no need to even play the World Cup now. We know how it is going to turn out. Using a simulation engine in the 2006 FIFA World Cup videogame, Electronic Arts came up with a final between the Czech Republic and Brazil with the Czechs prevailing in the end.

You’ve showed us how smart you are at predicting the groups but now it is time to take things to the next level. We are less than a week away from the start of the World Cup and it is time to get your big predictions down on record so you can remind us [...]

A couple of days ago we gave you the opportunity to predict the team that will score the most goals in group play. Today we ask for your thoughts on which team will yield the least amount of goals over the first three games.

Three wins, nine points. Walking away with maximum points in the first round won’t be easy in many of this year’s groups. Some teams might also be in a position after two games to rest their players and not play for a perfect first round. But with eight groups in play, you [...]

P(n) = λne-λ over n! That is all you need to know to predict the World Cup winner. The formula is used by a firm that boasts of its accomplishments in predicting football matches. A few months back when we looked at their predictions they had France listed as the team with [...]

We’ve presented you with our infallible predictions and we’ve showed you how they compare to Google’s selections. Now it is time for you to be the smartypants and to tell us how you think things will play out in each of the groups. Today you get to predict the outcome for Group H. [...]