Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday June 18, 2006 @06:26AM 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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Re:2-0 for that bull crap software by linvir · 2006-06-18 09:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hehe, they'd know it they got hacked by a Brazilian, since all he'd do would be to replace their interface code with shoutz!

Seriously though, I know that it's easy to see patterns in videos. What I don't know is whether there is anything else to be found beyond that. It's worth looking, especially for a team who could count their country's world cup qualifications on a hand with most of the fingers missing.