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Quick word before the football, because the weekend is stacked. UFC 329 lands tomorrow night, McGregor and Holloway running it back at the top of the card with Benoit Saint Denis and Paddy Pimblett...
The last time these two met, it was a World Cup semifinal in Qatar and France won 2-0 to end the best Moroccan run the tournament had ever seen. Three and a half years later they draw each other ag...
No games today, which for once is a gift. It lets us plant the flags before kickoff instead of after, and say out loud who our model thinks walks out of the quarterfinals and into the final four. T...
Yesterday There is no soft way to write this one, so here is the scoreline first: Belgium 4, United States 1. The hosts went out in the Round of 16 in Seattle, in front of their own crowd, and by t...
The last time our whole panel agreed on a knockout game, Norway made all four of them wrong. So tonight comes with a warning label. We've also got a deep dive into UFC 329...
For sixteen straight calls our xG-only model was perfect, and yesterday we wrote something a little uncomfortable: it stood alone on Canada at 52.4% while the four-persona panel and all seven AI mo...
There is a new row on the AI Index this morning. GLM 5.2 joined the field this week, has exactly four graded games to its name, and sits on the best Brier score on the entire board at .241. If we w...
The xG model is still perfect on who advances. And if it picked the rest of the way, Canada shock the world and Spain, not Argentina, lift the trophy.
The xG model is actually pretty good. We've got the xG predictions right here. The personas are also up and available on our World Cup page and we still have Argentina winning the whole thing!
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