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Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-to-build-an-expert-system-bot dept.

hotsauce writes "The BBC has a piece about how Australia is using software to gain an advantage in the World Cup. The Socceroos are running software that looks for patterns in attacks of the opposing team. It also shows the effectiveness of different response strategies by recording where attacks fail when countered. This is the first time Australia has reached the World Cup in 30 years, but a real test of the technology will come today when Australia must take on five-time and current world champions Brasil. The Socceroos talk about specific strategies for that game, also."

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  1. Technology DID do it today... by Howzer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Australia, ranked 88th in the world of football, played Brazil, ranked 1st in the world of football, almost to a standstill in the first half.

    They had two clear chances to equalize Brazil's first goal, but couldn't quite get there.

    Then, late in the game, Brazil helped themselves to a freakish goal off a goalpost rebound, which made the score 2:0.

    Australia losing to Brazil ONLY 2:0 is a testament to the Aussie's coach, Gus Hiddink, fearless play, and, very probably, the software that you're saying "didn't do it".

    Look, I know you don't really understand "soccer" but this is as if, off the back of a crushing Superbowl victory, the best team in the NFL played the wooden-spooners, and ONLY won by one touchdown...