ESPN's SPI rating for the Worldcup

[bl0m5t3r]

[Cheezzhead]

[Calv]

As far as I know, we haven't lost an opening match on the World cup for 66 years. NOTE: World cup! So I'm willing to see if Spain will be the first to beat us. I do believe we will get second in group stage, I don't believe in beating Brasil this year though...

[a5ad]

The stats are simply bad and totaly incorrect

[MaliBoo]

Somewhat agree with a5ad... How the hell does bosnia qualify better than portugal? Ive never seen them win anything.

[bl0m5t3r]

[a5ad]

[MaliBoo]

[bl0m5t3r]

[a5ad]

Actually, I wrote many words in my original post but as I'm not really into football, I just replaced my post with simple words.
Why I think it's bad? Because Nigeria and Croatia have the same percentage.
I never saw Nigeria playing nor I know there's any famous player from that country's team.
On the other hand, Croatia has the best midfielder in Champions league - Modric (he was assorted in European top 11 players, and he was announced the best player for his position. Don't ask me for link but i read it somewhere on football-related site), Bayern's attacker (Mandzukic) and Barcelona's player (Rakitic) and couple of players in other top european clubs.
Only Modric is "worth" more than majority, if not more than whole Nigerian team (He was sold to Real Madrid for 35M)

You can't even compare it to Nigeria's team, and your table claims these two teams have the same odds of winning. With all rights, I told you that the table we're talking about is totaly bad and incorrect.

[Cheezzhead]

[kingjr]

[bl0m5t3r]

[huawa]

You better go hide marcelo...

[bl0m5t3r]

maybe you guys will agree with these stats from the wall street journal:
http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/WO ... st%20Water

[a5ad]

[bl0m5t3r]

agree with the referee statement, i think he was afraid he would get his throat slit if he didn't let brazil win. brazil was aweful and croatia didn't deserve this.

[MaliBoo]

[tekz]

Your goalkeeper was awful. Brazil werent amazing, and had your keeper not made mistakes you might have actually got something form the game.

[Cheezzhead]