If you click the individual teams they all have a little summary and a video about their historical performance and how they're expected to do this time around.
EDIT: I feel relatively safe in predicting that England and the USA will be the teams in group C that survive the group stages.
Group C, F and H are definitely the easiest groups, with Group H (Spain's) likely being the easiest.
The hardest, without a doubt, is Group G... Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast and North Korea. Three excellent teams and one pretty solid one. Group B is also tough, as Argentina have been somewhat underwhelming, South Korea are generally pretty good, Greece are tough to break down, and Nigeria could be awesome or shitty.
Depends on what underwhelming is. They'll probably make it through the group stage in second place behind England. Their problem arises from having to play the winner of Group D in the round of 16... which is likely to be Germany. Their best chance is pipping England to first place in their group.
Spain, Brazil, England, Germany, Netherlands. Definitely the first two though. Brazil is just Brazil, and will always be a favourite. As for Spain, they have the best strikers, best midfield, best keepers, and a solid defense... and they have lost one match in the last three years.
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Wow looking at the averages for each pick its basically every favorite winning 3+ with 90+% (99% in the case of the Brazil v North Korea :P) There are going to be so many people that will end up on the exact same amount of points because 50% of the people seem to have made the exact same picks for everything.
Wow looking at the averages for each pick its basically every favorite winning 3+ with 90+% (99% in the case of the Brazil v North Korea :P) There are going to be so many people that will end up on the exact same amount of points because 50% of the people seem to have made the exact same picks for everything.
The group stages are generally predictable thanks to seeding (though places like New Zealand mess with that a bit) but the knockouts are where people will start to spread out a lot.
I don't like the ESPN website so that's why I did Yahoo!
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I'm struggling with how much of a home-continent effect to price in. How many get out of the group, who, and how deeply does one go along with the host-never-gets-bounced-in-the-group-stage talk.
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I'm struggling with how much of a home-continent effect to price in. How many get out of the group, who, and how deeply does one go along with the host-never-gets-bounced-in-the-group-stage talk.
South Africa will probably get bounced in the group stage
Already in the ESPN group, and now the Yahoo one as well.
I'm thinking that while South Africa does get bounced, they're going to get one out-of-nowhere huge win to make everyone feel good. I'm eyeing their match with France for that.
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Already in the ESPN group, and now the Yahoo one as well.
I'm thinking that while South Africa does get bounced, they're going to get one out-of-nowhere huge win to make everyone feel good. I'm eyeing their match with France for that.
I have Uruguay and Mexico advancing from group A because France is terrible this year
Same here. I love the stat from the other page for France-Uruguay, where the pick distribution is like 90-10 for France. Man alive are 90% of the Yahoo users going to be in for a real treat when that game rolls around.
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I dunno. A win and a draw can put them through. And apparently that opening match, regardless of the pairing, is particularly friendly, so that could be the draw there. Draw Mexico, beat France, that could be enough to advance.
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Group C, while not a hard group per se, is a fairly well matched group.
Overall the groups are fairly well balanced this year, IMO.
A or G are likely the "hardest" groups.
Let's be honest: None of the teams are particularly poor in that group either.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/groups_and_teams
If you click the individual teams they all have a little summary and a video about their historical performance and how they're expected to do this time around.
EDIT: I feel relatively safe in predicting that England and the USA will be the teams in group C that survive the group stages.
Now to be humiliated in T-7 days.
Group C, F and H are definitely the easiest groups, with Group H (Spain's) likely being the easiest.
The hardest, without a doubt, is Group G... Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast and North Korea. Three excellent teams and one pretty solid one. Group B is also tough, as Argentina have been somewhat underwhelming, South Korea are generally pretty good, Greece are tough to break down, and Nigeria could be awesome or shitty.
Depends on what underwhelming is. They'll probably make it through the group stage in second place behind England. Their problem arises from having to play the winner of Group D in the round of 16... which is likely to be Germany. Their best chance is pipping England to first place in their group.
Spain, Brazil, England, Germany, Netherlands. Definitely the first two though. Brazil is just Brazil, and will always be a favourite. As for Spain, they have the best strikers, best midfield, best keepers, and a solid defense... and they have lost one match in the last three years.
You pick who the winners of the games will be. You have a set of picks!
edit: and please noone be fooled by how well South Korea did when hosting the world cup
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I agree with you.
I know where my pick for that match is
Now granted, I know nothing about the rest of their squad so I don't know how badly it will affect them.
http://games.espn.go.com/bpredictor/en-us/frontpage
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8716699.stm
I don't like the ESPN website so that's why I did Yahoo!
But I will put this in the OP.
South Africa will probably get bounced in the group stage
I'm thinking that while South Africa does get bounced, they're going to get one out-of-nowhere huge win to make everyone feel good. I'm eyeing their match with France for that.
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility. - President Theodore Roosevelt
I have Uruguay and Mexico advancing from group A because France is terrible this year
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility. - President Theodore Roosevelt