# Quant teams predicting the World Cup

It is a good tradition of the quant teams of the major banks to predict the World Cup. As an example see this new paper from Goldman Sachs:

The World Cup and Economics 2014 (Brazil will win by the way ;-)

They partly do this for fun, for publicity (I just read about this report on Bloomberg) and also for demonstrating typical quant tools in a lighthearted manner (which can be very instructive).

My question
Do you know of any other reports of this kind and how to get them?

• Its not entirely what you are requesting but if you have a Bloomberg terminal on your desktop you can use BRKT<GO> to load up the FIFA brackets that others have done. – chollida Jun 6 '14 at 13:37

I saw this paper by Deutsche through FT Alphaville Markets live.

• Great, thank you! – vonjd Jun 9 '14 at 14:22
• Unfortunately the link is dead now... but perhaps there is an updated version of the paper? – vonjd Jun 1 '18 at 10:34
• Updated the link, not sure about updates by DB. – Bob Jansen Jun 2 '18 at 7:28

An interesting variant from Reuters (you can do your own "simulations"):