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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #75 on: July 05, 2014, 02:15:05 pm »
And Argentina goes to the semi-finals for the first time in 24 years.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #76 on: July 05, 2014, 02:36:50 pm »
Quote from: Sigmaleph on July 05, 2014, 02:15:05 pm
And Argentina goes to the semi-finals for the first time in 24 years.

At least this time they're winning everything en route...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldss7IDQhQ0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldss7IDQhQ0</a>
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #77 on: July 05, 2014, 08:58:18 pm »
Damn...2 big stars out for Brazil.  One on yellow card suspension and the other....daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

Ironbite-hope it's not career ending.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #78 on: July 06, 2014, 02:43:01 am »


EDIT: World Cup semi-final matchups.

« Last Edit: July 06, 2014, 07:09:13 am by dpareja »
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #79 on: July 06, 2014, 08:27:51 am »
(Post unrelated to above post.)

Here's a fun one: Part of FIFA's ranking formula is a factor that supposedly reflects the strength of the team's confederation. (See page 2 of this PDF.) It gets updated with each World Cup Finals. After the last World Cup, FIFA realized that despite European teams having won two of the last three tournaments, their formula was giving CONMEBOL a weighting of 1 and UEFA a weighting of 0.99, so they changed it to count draws as half of a win, which means that the final result gives them both a weighting of 1, even though when you dive into it you see that CONMEBOL is still stronger by FIFA's formula than UEFA.

Here's the fun part: if I've done my math right, then even in the best case scenario for Europe (where a European team wins one semi-final and loses the other, and then European teams win both the third-place game and the final--this is better because winning one of four drops South America's win percentage lower than winning none of two), European teams will have won all three World Cups taken into account and UEFA will have a weighting of 0.99 while CONMEBOL will have a weighting of 1. (The other four confederations will all be at 0.85.)

I find this highly amusing.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #80 on: July 06, 2014, 05:01:47 pm »
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #81 on: July 08, 2014, 05:40:29 pm »
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #82 on: July 08, 2014, 05:56:55 pm »
7-1. Damn.

On the one hand, Brazil getting destroyed was hilarious to watch. On the other, this doesn't bode well for us if we even reach the finals (last time Argentina faced Germany we lost 4-0).
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #83 on: July 08, 2014, 06:00:55 pm »
And now to cheer for the Netherlands just so that a) a European team will win the World Cup for the third straight time and b) FIFA's formula will still say that South America is strictly better than Europe.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #84 on: July 08, 2014, 06:22:57 pm »
Damn. Missed the match, but saw the results on the news. 7-1. Damn.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #85 on: July 08, 2014, 06:34:04 pm »
Quote from: Svata on July 08, 2014, 06:22:57 pm
Damn. Missed the match, but saw the results on the news. 7-1. Damn.

And Neuer was pissed off about the 1.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #86 on: July 08, 2014, 07:36:46 pm »
Last time Germany trounced another country this badly, it was run by a loud guy in a Chaplin mustache.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #87 on: July 08, 2014, 08:28:27 pm »
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #88 on: July 08, 2014, 10:27:28 pm »
Quote from: Sigmaleph on July 08, 2014, 05:56:55 pm
7-1. Damn.

On the one hand, Brazil getting destroyed was hilarious to watch. On the other, this doesn't bode well for us if we even reach the finals (last time Argentina faced Germany we lost 4-0).

Is Argentina missing several key players due to fouls and injuries?  No?

Ironbite-keep it that way and you have a chance.
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Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup thread
« Reply #89 on: July 08, 2014, 11:47:21 pm »
Quote from: ironbite on July 08, 2014, 10:27:28 pm
Quote from: Sigmaleph on July 08, 2014, 05:56:55 pm
7-1. Damn.

On the one hand, Brazil getting destroyed was hilarious to watch. On the other, this doesn't bode well for us if we even reach the finals (last time Argentina faced Germany we lost 4-0).

Is Argentina missing several key players due to fouls and injuries?  No?

Ironbite-keep it that way and you have a chance.

Several? No. Di María is down, though. And the team has a very obvious single point of failure.
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