From: wc94@cantor.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Worldcup 94)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: THE FINAL RESULTS OF THE 1994 QUALITY POLL
Date: 28 Jul 1994 14:44:35 GMT
Dear world-cup friends,
here is the final result of our "quality voting".
I went through all the votings and had to throw away
a few double-votes (people voting for the same match
from two different email addresses).
I also disqualified one voter (from country X)
who only voted for games where country X was participating,
giving a 10 to team X each time and a 1 to the opponent in most cases.
Sorry, this did not look like a neutral voting, so I discarded
it.
To have a comparison, after the 1994 results,
I also list the 1990 results. It seems that the worldcup 90
came away with better votings than this year's.
So, we can call Romania-Argentina the best match of this tournament
by far. Like 1990's final (Germany-Argentina), Brazil-Italy
was amongst the 10 worst matches.
THE 1994 QUALITY POLL
=====================
There are 1677 votes by 94 persons.
By match:
1st team - 2nd team round avg score #votes avg score
for Game 1st & 2nd team
Romania - Argentina (1/8) 8.49 45 8.27 7.20
Netherlands - Brazil (1/4) 7.89 38 7.05 7.13
Germany - Belgium (1/8) 7.50 46 7.57 6.46
Romania - Colombia (Pre) 7.49 43 7.53 5.30
Romania - Switzerland (Pre) 7.21 28 4.36 7.39
Netherlands - Belgium (Pre) 7.11 44 6.34 6.84
Germany - SouthKorea (Pre) 6.76 41 5.34 6.29
Spain - SouthKorea (Pre) 6.56 34 5.09 5.82
Netherlands - Ireland (1/8) 6.48 42 7.24 5.29
USA - Colombia (Pre) 6.37 35 6.54 4.34
Cameroon - Sweden (Pre) 6.30 30 6.10 5.70
Russia - Cameroon (Pre) 6.30 23 6.91 3.13
Italy - Bulgaria (1/2) 6.27 26 6.50 5.00
Brazil - Cameroon (Pre) 6.25 32 7.47 4.22
Bulgaria - Sweden (3rd) 6.23 13 4.08 7.23
Argentina - Nigeria (Pre) 6.21 42 6.95 5.29
Germany - Bulgaria (1/4) 6.21 39 5.64 6.10
Belgium - SaudiArabia (Pre) 6.12 17 4.82 6.35
Netherlands - SaudiArabia (Pre) 6.03 35 5.49 5.69
Spain - Switzerland (1/8) 5.97 30 6.77 4.80
SaudiArabia - Sweden (1/8) 5.97 30 4.77 6.43
Romania - Sweden (1/4) 5.94 36 5.44 5.50
Italy - Ireland (Pre) 5.92 53 4.53 6.36
Bulgaria - Nigeria (Pre) 5.89 27 3.85 6.85
Italy - Spain (1/4) 5.85 34 5.41 6.03
Brazil - Sweden (Pre) 5.85 26 6.19 6.00
Brazil - Russia (Pre) 5.78 45 7.20 3.53
Mexico - Norway (Pre) 5.71 45 4.47 5.96
Switzerland - Colombia (Pre) 5.70 23 4.70 6.52
Italy - Mexico (Pre) 5.67 24 5.17 5.58
Argentina - Greece (Pre) 5.65 31 7.13 2.19
Russia - Sweden (Pre) 5.63 19 4.16 6.26
Morocco - SaudiArabia (Pre) 5.60 20 5.50 5.30
Netherlands - Morocco (Pre) 5.58 19 5.53 5.21
Spain - Bolivia (Pre) 5.57 14 5.93 4.79
Nigeria - Italy (1/8) 5.56 39 4.97 5.13
Ireland - Mexico (Pre) 5.55 22 4.68 6.09
Belgium - Morocco (Pre) 5.48 31 5.39 5.52
Romania - USA (Pre) 5.46 37 5.76 4.95
Brazil - USA (1/8) 5.41 51 6.04 4.35
Spain - Germany (Pre) 5.38 53 5.64 5.25
Brazil - Sweden (1/2) 5.33 24 6.75 4.25
Italy - Norway (Pre) 5.22 37 6.05 4.14
Argentina - Bulgaria (Pre) 5.10 20 4.50 5.80
Mexico - Bulgaria (1/8) 5.03 38 4.61 4.87
USA - Switzerland (Pre) 4.69 45 4.64 5.13
Brazil - Italy (1st) 4.65 26 5.85 4.85
Bulgaria - Greece (Pre) 4.65 20 5.75 2.15
Nigeria - Greece (Pre) 4.60 10 5.60 2.70
SouthKorea - Bolivia (Pre) 4.53 17 5.00 4.29
Ireland - Norway (Pre) 4.48 23 4.48 4.17
Germany - Bolivia (Pre) 4.11 55 4.96 3.65
By team (taking the average over the averages of the matches):
Brazil 242 votes 6.69 average score
Argentina 138 votes 6.45 average score
Netherlands 178 votes 6.33 average score
Romania 189 votes 6.27 average score
Sweden 178 votes 6.05 average score
Spain 165 votes 5.89 average score
Belgium 138 votes 5.88 average score
Germany 234 votes 5.75 average score
SouthKorea 92 votes 5.71 average score
Nigeria 118 votes 5.68 average score
SaudiArabia 102 votes 5.53 average score
Switzerland 126 votes 5.51 average score
Morocco 70 votes 5.41 average score
Colombia 101 votes 5.39 average score
Italy 239 votes 5.38 average score
Ireland 140 votes 5.20 average score
Mexico 129 votes 5.19 average score
USA 168 votes 5.12 average score
Bulgaria 183 votes 5.06 average score
Russia 87 votes 4.87 average score
Norway 105 votes 4.75 average score
Cameroon 85 votes 4.48 average score
Bolivia 86 votes 4.24 average score
Greece 61 votes 2.35 average score
THE 1990 results
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Games are in the order of how good they were....
Team A B avg. A B Game
1 GER - ENG (1/2) #8.3 8.5 9.2
2 CAM - ENG (1/4) #8.3 6.9 8.8
3 GER - HOL (1/8) #8.7 7.6 8.6
4 ENG - ITA (ltl. final) #7.2 7.7 7.9
5 BEL - ENG (1/8) #8.2 7.1 7.8
6 ITA - CZE #8.3 6.2 7.5
7 ITA - ARG (1/2) #6.9 7.0 7.4
8 BEL - URU #7.9 6.2 7.4
9 BEL - ESP #7.0 7.2 7.2
10 GER - YUG #8.2 5.0 7.1
11 AUT - ITA #5.3 7.7 7.0
12 GER - UAE #8.0 3.5 7.0
13 SWE - CRI #4.0 7.3 7.0
14 BRA - SWE #7.1 6.2 7.0
15 ITA - IRL (1/4) #6.8 6.6 6.9
16 SWE - SCO #5.7 6.5 6.7
17 YUG - ESP (1/8) #6.2 6.5 6.6
18 IRL - HOL #6.7 6.2 6.6
19 CAM - USS #3.5 7.9 6.5
20 BRA - ARG (1/8) #7.7 5.2 6.5
21 ARG - ROM #6.0 6.3 6.4
22 KOR - ESP #5.1 6.9 6.4
23 KOR - URU #5.3 5.5 6.3
24 HOL - EGY #4.7 6.5 6.2
25 ITA - URU (1/8) #7.1 5.3 6.2
26 USS - ROM #4.5 6.7 6.1
27 GER - CZE (1/4) #7.1 5.7 6.1
28 ARG - CAM #4.1 6.2 6.1
29 CZE - CRI (1/8) #7.0 4.6 6.1
30 CAM - ROM #6.5 5.3 5.8
31 ARG - YUG (1/4) #5.2 6.5 5.8
32 BRA - SCO #6.0 4.9 5.8
33 GER - COL #5.9 5.7 5.7
34 CZE - AUT #6.3 5.0 5.6
35 USA - CZE #2.4 6.8 5.6
36 YUG - UAE #6.4 4.0 5.6
37 IRL - ROM (1/8) #5.9 5.8 5.5
38 ARG - USS #5.6 5.0 5.4
39 ENG - HOL #6.0 5.0 5.3
40 ITA - USA #5.2 5.1 5.3
41 CRI - SCO #4.6 4.2 5.1
42 BEL - KOR #6.1 3.9 5.1
43 GER - ARG (final) #6.8 3.2 4.9
44 CAM - COL (1/8) #5.2 4.7 4.9
45 YUG - COL #5.7 4.8 4.9
46 ENG - EGY #5.8 4.0 4.6
47 AUT - USA #5.4 4.0 4.6
48 BRA - CRI #5.8 3.9 4.4
49 URU - ESP #5.3 3.4 4.1
50 COL - UAE #4.8 3.1 4.0
51 IRL - EGY #5.1 2.7 3.6
52 ENG - IRL #3.5 4.3 3.3
Here is the list of the best teams from 1990's world cup, according
to the net people's opinion, taking the average for every team over
all played matches.
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1 GER 7 games, net's average: 7.56
2 BEL 4 games, net's average: 7.31
3 ITA 7 games, net's average: 7.10
4 BRA 4 games, net's average: 6.62
5 ENG 7 games, net's average: 6.39
6 CZE 5 games, net's average: 6.38
7 ROM 4 games, net's average: 6.02
8 ESP 4 games, net's average: 6.01
9 YUG 5 games, net's average: 5.97
10 CAM 5 games, net's average: 5.95
11 HOL 4 games, net's average: 5.86
12 USS 3 games, net's average: 5.79
13 IRL 5 games, net's average: 5.70
14 URU 4 games, net's average: 5.58
15 SWE 3 games, net's average: 5.29
16 AUT 3 games, net's average: 5.24
17 SCO 3 games, net's average: 5.19
18 ARG 7 games, net's average: 5.18
19 CRI 4 games, net's average: 5.11
20 COL 4 games, net's average: 5.01
21 KOR 3 games, net's average: 4.73
22 EGY 3 games, net's average: 4.40
23 USA 3 games, net's average: 3.81
24 UAE 3 games, net's average: 3.51