GAMBLOG UK - WE ARE ENGLAND - England Play Brazil In The Final Says The Crowd

Experiment -
This is a global experiment to see if the Wisdom of Crowds can be used to predict the outcome of The World Cup.

Result - On the eve of the tournament, we can reveal that England will reach the World Cup Final. Well, that's if our Wisdom of Fans experiment proves to be correct. We sent out an open invitation to viewers of our 11v11.co.uk web site to give us their prediction for the World Cup. They each had 100 percentage points to be allocated amongst the competing nations as they saw fit.

The Wisdom of Fans works on the theory that groups of random people can provide remarkably accurate information, and usually outperform individual experts.

Percentages -
Over 4,000 votes later, the result is that - not too surprisingly - the 2006 World Cup winners are predicted to be Brazil with 32.09% of the aggregate vote.
It's England who come in second at 15.79%. The semi-finalists are tipped as Argentina (12.67%) and Germany (11.62%).
The other would-be quarter-finalists are a European quartet of Italy (9.67%), France (8.36%), Holland (8.03%) and Spain (6.35%).
All 32 nations receive some supports but it's Saudi Arabia who are the rank-outsiders with 1.61%