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World Cup Prediction Failures

Posted by timothy on from the goal-oops-I-mean-nope dept.

pdcull writes "We all read on Slashdot about the investment banks using their massive computer power and clever modeling techniques to predict the FIFA World Cup outcome. Now that Goldman Sachs's, UBS's and Danske Bank's favorite, Brazil, has been eliminated, and with JP Morgan's England long gone, the question that begs to be asked is: can we really trust these guys to predict the financial markets any better than they did World Cup?"

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  1. Re:We have to! by x2A · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Who's the fool?"

    Bush.

    --
    The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
  2. Re:Look at the numbers first by SakuraDreams · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The German team is half Polish/Turk/Nigerian/Tunisian anyway. Hitler would have rolled over in his grave.
    When you have the money to buy the best players or pull in the most talent - it's easier to win.

  3. Re:We have to! --It's soccer do we care? by G_REEPER · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Soccer is a great sport for kids and girls. It is not one that even deserves a 2 second ad on American tv much less wall to wall coverage. I have yet to see a single player who would not puke after getting hit by any defensive end from any real "FOOTBALL" team. Nor have i seen them demonstrate any skill in their audibility to hit a ball traveling over 90 mph. Hockey is the closes thing to soccer and i would love to see a soccer goalie go against a hockey goalie. Since most people do not follow this why would you expect any programmer to have enough information to build an algorithm that would work?

    So again i say why should we care, hell i am shocked it made it to slashdot.