Thursday, June 08, 2006

FIFA Soccer as prediction maker

(via gamasutra): "Global publisher Electronic Arts has announced that, using its video game 2006 FIFA World Cup as simulation, it predicts that the winner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany will be the Czech Republic."


I imagine that gamers around the world play FIFA with their national teams and, depending on how superstitious they are, believe (or at least hope) their results will occur during the actual tournament (by the way, did we have a "games for the superstitious post"? if not, we should provide it soon). EA's case is similar, with the difference that their team is the game itself.

If this kind of prediction is the ultimate test for any game that intends to simulate a real event, why not put EA's football game into test? I have pasted the full list (taken from marketwatch.com) of results below and I will keep you informed on how it compares to reality. I can't promise to update it every day, but I will try to post as often as I can.

PS: It starts tomorrow! Germany Vs. Costa Rica and Poland Vs. Ecuador.

EA SPORTS(TM) 2006 FIFA World Cup(TM) Results:

Group Play

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Group A

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Germany 1 x 1 Costa Rica

Poland 2 x 1 Ecuador

Germany 2 X 1 Poland

Ecuador 1 x 3 Costa Rica

Ecuador 0 x 1 Germany

Costa Rica 2 x 1 Poland


Group B

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England 3 x 0 Paraguay

Trinidad & Tobago 1 x 0 Sweden

England 2 x 0 Trinidad & Tobago

Sweden 1 x 2 Paraguay

Sweden 2 x 2 England

Paraguay 2 x 1 Trinidad & Tobago


Group C

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Argentina 3 x 1 Ivory Coast

Serbia & Montenegro 0 x 1 Holland

Argentina 2 x 0 Serbia & Montenegro 0

Holland 2 x 1 Ivory Coast

Holland 1 x 1 Argentina

Ivory Coast 2 x 3 Serbia & Montenegro


Group D

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Mexico 1 x 1 Iran

Angola 0 x 3 Portugal

Mexico 2 x 0 Angola

Portugal 1 x 2 Iran

Portugal 2 x 3 Mexico

Iran 0 x 0 Angola


Group E

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Italy 2 x 2 Ghana

USA 2 x 2 Czech

Italy 2 x 3 USA

Czech 2 x 0 Ghana

Czech 2 x 1 Italy

Ghana 0 x 2 USA


Group F

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Brazil 3 x 1 Croatia

Australia 2 x 1 Japan

Brazil 1 x 1 Australia

Japan 1 x 1 Croatia

Japan 0 x 2 Brazil

Croatia 2 x 4 Australia


Group G

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France 2 x 2 Switzerland

Korea 1 x 1 Togo

France 3 x 0 Korea

Togo 0 x 2 Switzerland

Togo 0 x 2 France

Switzerland 2 x 1 Korea


Group H

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Spain 1 x 1 Ukraine

Tunisia 1 x 1 Saudia

Spain 2 x 1 Tunisia

Saudia 1 x 3 Ukraine

Saudia 0 x 2 Spain

Ukraine 2 x 1 Tunisia


 


Group of 16

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Costa Rica 2 (Wanchope (2))

Paraguay 0


Argentina 1 (Crespo)

Iran 0


USA 2 (Donovan, McBride)

Brazil 3 (Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Robinho)


France 2 (Zidane (2))

Spain 1 (Torres)


Germany 1 (Podolski)

England 0


Holland 2 (Robben, Van Nistlerooy)

Mexico 4 (Bravo, Borgetti (2), Pardo)


Czech Rep. 3 (Koller (2), Galasek)

Australia 1 (Viduka)


Switzerland 2 (Frei, Vogel)

Ukraine 1 (Shevchenko)


 


Quarter Finals

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Costa Rica 1 (Wanchope)

Argentina 3 (Messi, Tevez, Riquelme)


Brazil 1 (Ronaldo)

France 0


Germany 2 (Podolski, Ballack)

Mexico 0


Czech Rep. 3 (Baros, Smicer, Koller)

Switzerland 0


 


Semi Finals

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Argentina 1 (Tevez)

Brazil 2 (Adriano (2))


Germany 0

Czech Rep. 2 (Baros, Nedved)


 


3rd Place Game

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Argentina 3 (Tevez, Messi, Galetti)

Germany 1 (Schweinsteiger)


 


Final

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Brazil 1 (Ronaldo)

Czech Rep. 2 (Baros, Rosicky)

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