[The first four games are all right! ] Blogger predicts Brazil will win the World Cup through AI]
With the official start of the World Cup, the results of each team have now become the top concern for fans of each team. Thinking of the miraculous performance of Paul the Octopus at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the "famous jersey scene" of Liu Yuxi "Octopus Liu" in the World Cup in Brazil, the World Cup result guess has also become one of the topics that people talk about. Recently, a Weibo blogger uploaded a paragraph of his World Cup promotion road and final winning team obtained through big data + AI analysis. In AI's predictions, Brazil will eventually win the Hercules Cup. What's even more amazing is that in the four matches completed so far, the AI's prediction accuracy is as high as 100%, including the draw, and the results of all four games are successfully guessed.
In a video posted by blogger @JackCuiAI, he said that he has a friend who wants to know how AI can predict the match of this World Cup and the final team that will win the cup. So the blogger counted the international football match data from 1872 to 2022 and the FIFA world ranking data from 1922 to 2022, analyzed these data, extracted key features that affected the game, including ranking, home and away, number of shots, number of saves, final score, etc., and compared the indicators of various machine learning algorithms on the AUC. It was finally decided to predict the World Cup using the ensemble learning gradient boosting decision tree, GradientBoostingClassifier.
In the predicted results of the AI group stage released by the blogger, in the four matches that have ended, Qatar-Ecuador, England-Iran, Netherlands-Senegal and Wales-the United States, the results calculated by the AI are exactly the same as the actual results of the end. The AI predictions include not only the group stage score and the points of each team, but also the subsequent knockout rounds. According to the AI's calculations, the Netherlands, Argentina, Spain, Brazil, England, France, Belgium and Portugal will reach the quarterfinals, and the final will be played between Brazil and Portugal, and Brazil will eventually lift the sixth World Cup trophy in the team's history.
