Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

I built a maths model to simulate the World Cup a million times. Find out your team’s chances

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Steven Stern, Professor of Data Science, Bond University

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is one of the most watched events of the international sports calendar, and fans from across the globe will be trying to predict how far their team will go.

I’m a data scientist and in an attempt to forecast the eventual tournament winner, semi-finalists and teams’ chances of progressing through the group stages, I built a model to predict how the World Cup may unfold.

Here’s how I did it and what my model predicted.