Next November, the World Cup will be held in Qatar. While this competition promises great uncertainties on the sporting level, an artificial intelligence has already decided on the teams which should come out of it the best. The company Opta, which compiles many statistics on the world of football, has revealed the percentage of chances of each selection to win the bet.
🇬🇭 Ghana has 0.02% of winning the 2022 World Cup according to @OptaAnalyst
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According to their model, there is therefore a 17.93% chance that the France team will win. Holders of the title, the Blues are however not at their best at the moment and remain on a bad series in the League of Nations. They are closely followed by Brazil with 15.73%, while Spain completes this podium at 11.53%.
When it comes to predictions, AIs are as wrong as humans
On the other hand, it should be very difficult for teams such as Costa Rica, Cameroon, or even Saudi Arabia, to which Opta’s supercomputer does not give the slightest chance of winning the competition. All that remains is to wait a few months to judge the quality of the algorithm’s predictions.
Remember that this is not the first time that artificial intelligence has been used to anticipate the results of a sporting event. We were talking to you about this AI developed by Stats Perform which relied on data from Opta to quantify the chances of each team to win Euro 2021.
In detail, this model uses in particular the odds of the betting markets, the rankings of the teams, and their historical and recent performances. However, we cannot say that his predictions were a real success. Thus, the machine relied heavily on teams like France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, or Portugal. Only Italy, which was cited, managed to win the competition.
Another AI developed by Sportradar had done a little better by feeding its algorithm with data collected over the past 20 years. She had notably anticipated the defeat of France in the round of 16, but also thought that Italy would bow at the same stage of the competition.
Source: Presse-Citron
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