Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
World Cup Predictions with fo.reca.st
<p>The world cup starts this week, so now is the time to get your predictions in! Fo.reca.st is an Ajax app tracking predictions for the upcoming tournament. There’s some nice use of Ajax here, and fortunately creator Alexander Kozle has produced a walkthrough of its features.- There’s a custom CSS stylesheet defined for each team, so fans will have
the interface presented in their favourite colours. - The main page of predictions is a high-level view. When editing
predictions, there’s a popup from the full page, showing additional details
such as venues.
- Using Yahoo’s Connection Manager, saving is performed with standard Ajax
remoting. The message format is JSON. - There’s a sweet adaption of the ol’ Tag Cloud, to produce a kind of Football
Field Cloud. Teams that win more games get bigger fonts.
Good luck with fo.reca.st and the upcoming world cup. Before attempting your fo.reca.st, please make sure you can satisfy the terms of use, as stated on the homepage:
* I’m loving football
* I wish my favourite team success at World Cup 2006
* I know football much better than ALL my friends and colleagues
Update: Commenters point out two more Ajax world cup predicors, both of them Ajax (!): This one by sports.fr, and this independent effort.
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Hi all, i also tried to make a world cup simultor using javascript and ajax…
i would be happy if u have a look at it :
http://team.sports.fr/wcs2006_free/
another version with registration a database storage of results :
http://team.sports.fr/wcs2006_aol/index.phtml
i apologize if you think my post is advertising and apologize again for for my really bad english
Probably not a soccer fan, or you would know that the once in a four year event starts this week. Two days after your post was published.
Hi!
Nice article but the WM starts tomorrow not next week ;-)
the prediction sound quite reasonable to me.
Brazil will most likely win his time
the predictions sound quite reasonable to me.
Brazil will most likely win his time
A bit redundant?
[...] World Cup Predictions with fo.reca.st [...]
[...] World Cup Predictions with fo.reca.st [...]
http://www.donationcoder.com/wcp
The page discusses and has a useful demonstration of Markov Chain
Monte Carlo estimation, using the Soccer World Cup as an example.
It’s also a bit different in that it analyzes betting odds as well in
an attempt to identify “good” bets.
Runs entirely within the browser showing a constantly updating chart
of probabilities as they are refined.
ITALY WILL WIN
Hi,
I feel the finals will be between Germany and Brazil and Brazil will won this .
ITALY WILL CERTAINLY WIN THESE ONE ( saw it in a vision)
i think brazil will be champion.
Yes,Italy will win World Cup 2006.
Vision..guess you were right.
Nice Blog
I thought brazil or argentina would win it, mainly because they seem to be the best sides. Just goes to show that it may not be the best teams that win trophies but the teams that can grind out results! nice forecast system.