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I have been battling the sort of computer problems no one who does what I do should ever have to face, and it appears I may very well have stemmed the tide in my favor for the moment. I’m going to sleep in about a half an hour… …if I wake up tomorrow, power up […]

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A discussion below has popped up about which confederations should have how many teams. Going to do some thinking out loud here and just see what happens. To me there’s actually three main considerations:

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Who’s in? Who’s out? Should Norway celebrate? How’s Alvaro’s bets looking right now? So many questions, answers to come. The updated National Team Rankings can be found here.

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Going to change up the format a little here because so much has happened. Will go through things region by region and note the important happenings. The nitty is certainly starting to become gritty now and this will be a very long post. The updated National Team Rankings can be found here. Full qualification chances […]

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Thanks for everyone’s patience. My computer difficulties continue to plague me, but I managed to get all my files onto another machine and set everything up. So 10,000 sims for all games played through August 31, 2009.

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Egypt’s win at home over Rwanda is the last qualifier for another month, so let’s have a look see at how things are shaping up. The updated National Team Rankings can be found here. Full qualification chances can be found here.

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I like to do keep tabs on my rating system this from time to time, always looking for ways to improve it. Since it appears most everybody took the Confederations cup quite seriously, why not have a look to see how the rating systems did in predicting the outcomes of games.

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David writes in a request: I was wondering if it would be possible for you retroactively to run simulations for the Confederations Cup before the last games were played in Group B. I realize how unlikely the U.S. advancing was, I’m just curious how many times it would have happened in your simulations. Was this […]

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That’s as Bad as I’ve Seen the US Look in a Long Time In my case, that might be _ever_ since I didn’t follow the sport back in the 80s. Update on US Qualification chances: USA = What Difference Does It Make%

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Someone reading that title would be almost certain this is a political post, and not a post about Asian World Cup Qualifying. They’d, of course, be wrong. I’ll get to the update later on Thursday but a fascinating “life meets theory” moment evolved today when Saudi Arabia and North Korea came face to face with […]

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