Soccer Power Index

Soccer Power Index is a statistical measure of team power in world soccer. It is an interesting tool to predict soccer match results. Countries are ranked on the basis of Fifa points and past performance. The scale contains 211 national teams.

World Cup 2010

Nate Silver published the statistical simulation of the 2010 World Cup. For each country, he calculated the probabilities of wining and advancing in the playoff round. Below is the list of both probabilities for each team in each group. As you can see, the results are very interesting.

Source: FiveThirtyEight