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For interest and analysis only: not betting advice.

Methodology · how the forecast is built.

Built by Mohammed Ehab Elnomany · probabilistic, not an oracle.

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AI vs Humans

Scoring vs results · 31/31 decided

How the brackets people submitted on /predict stack up, with the model ranked as one more competitor. Every bracket is scored ONLY against actual results: rounds already decided carry points, rounds not yet decided are pending and lock in round by round as results arrive.

Model competitor: the elo-dc-v1.0 model (50,000 sims) committed its PRE-TOURNAMENT bracket once, before kickoff like every human, scored only against actual results. Its current read (conditioned on 104 results, updated 19 Jul 2026) feeds the "Crowd vs the model" comparison only, not its score.

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Most-picked

10 brackets
reach finalchampion
  • ESPSpain
    5 · 50%2 · 20%
  • FRAFrance
    4 · 40%3 · 30%
  • ARGArgentina
    4 · 40%2 · 20%
  • BRABrazil
    3 · 30%1 · 10%
  • ENGEngland
    2 · 20%1 · 10%
  • COLColombia
    1 · 10%1 · 10%
  • NEDNetherlands
    1 · 10%0 · 0%

Crowd vs the model

the model’s current projection
20%back the model’s current pick
that'sESPSpain
Biggest disagreement
ESPSpaincrowd backs less

crowd 20% vs result >99% (-80%)

Leaderboard

11 entries
  1. 1rank 1
    Ahmad Hassan
    picksESPSpain= model
    141
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups9/12R1612/16QF5/8SF3/4Final2/2Champion ✓
  2. 2rank 2
    Presaira modelmodel · pre-tournament
    picksESPSpain
    138
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups10/12R1612/16QF4/8SF3/4Final2/2Champion ✓
  3. 3rank 3
    Seif Tamer
    picksESPSpain= model
    116
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups8/12R1610/16QF4/8SF3/4Final1/2Champion ✓
  4. 4rank 4
    M7mdEhab
    picksARGArgentina≠ model
    113
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups9/12R1612/16QF6/8SF3/4Final2/2Champion ✗
  5. 5rank 5
    Mohammed Tarik
    picksARGArgentina≠ model
    98
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups10/12R1612/16QF4/8SF2/4Final2/2Champion ✗
  6. 6rank 6
    Osama
    picksFRAFrance≠ model
    92
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups8/12R1612/16QF5/8SF3/4Final1/2Champion ✗
  7. 7rank 7
    Salma Abdelrahman
    picksENGEngland≠ model
    90
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups8/12R1611/16QF5/8SF3/4Final1/2Champion ✗
  8. 8rank 8
    Hossam
    picksFRAFrance≠ model
    79
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups9/12R1611/16QF6/8SF3/4Final0/2Champion ✗
  9. 9rank 9
    Menna Youssef
    picksBRABrazil≠ model
    73
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups9/12R1612/16QF4/8SF3/4Final0/2Champion ✗
  10. 10rank 10
    Omar El-Sayed
    picksFRAFrance≠ model
    56
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups8/12R1610/16QF3/8SF2/4Final0/2Champion ✗
  11. 11rank 11
    Youssef Khaled
    picksCOLColombia≠ model
    48
    / 172 pts
    ▾
    Groups10/12R1611/16QF4/8SF0/4Final0/2Champion ✗

Every bracket is scored ONLY against actual results. The model competes as one entrant with the bracket it locked BEFORE kickoff (its pre-tournament pick), exactly like every human, so the live re-projection never changes its score. Tap a row for its per-round breakdown: the pills show how many of each round's decided teams the entry also picked. Rounds not yet decided show as pending and lock in as results arrive. Brackets that recorded only group winners + champion are scored on just those dimensions.

The model's pre-tournament bracket

the AI competitor
ChampionESPSpain
Finalists
ESPSpainARGArgentina
Semi-finals
FRAFranceESPSpainBRABrazilARGArgentina
Quarter-finals
FRAFranceNEDNetherlandsESPSpainBELBelgiumBRABrazilMEXMexicoARGArgentinaPORPortugal
Group winners
MEXMexicoCANCanadaBRABrazilUSAUnited StatesGERGermanyNEDNetherlandsBELBelgiumESPSpainFRAFranceARGArgentinaPORPortugalENGEngland

This is the model's PRE-TOURNAMENT bracket, locked before kickoff like every human and ranked alongside the human entries, scored against actual results by the same rule · run forecast__elo-dc-v1.0__seed42__cond0__rerun20260610.

How scoring works

max 172 pts

A simple round-weighted scheme: deeper correct calls are worth more. Each entry (the model included) earns points for agreement with actual results, with no upset bonuses or tie-breakers (richer leaderboard scoring is a V2 idea, deliberately out of scope pre-launch).

  • Group winner: each of the 12 group winners1 pt
  • Round of 32: each team you advance to the Round of 162 pts
  • Round of 16: each team you advance to the quarter-finals4 pts
  • Quarter-final: each team you advance to the semi-finals8 pts
  • Semi-final: each finalist you call16 pts
  • Champion: the champion32 pts

The bracket challenge is closed

The tournament has finished, so new entries can no longer be submitted. See how every bracket - including the model's - finished up on the AI vs Humans leaderboard above.