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    1. Ticket price data came from [https://www.ticketdata.com/performer/world-cup-soccer](https://www.ticketdata.com/performer/world-cup-soccer) and FIFA rankings came from [https://inside.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/men](https://inside.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/men) . Right now it all exists in a giant Excel spreadsheet and I annotated the graph slightly in Figma.

      From the other post:

      I rated games on 3 metrics:

      1. The **quality** of the teams (based on FIFA rankings)
      2. The **closeness** of quality of the two teams (everyone wants to see Spain, not everyone wants to see Spain play Cabo Verde)
      3. The **popularity** of teams (US and Canada games are going to be more popular, despite not being the best teams)

      Metric 3 required some additional calculation, which came down to running a decomposition on each team’s 3 games — basically was their game against Team X more expensive or less expensive than Team X’s average. I then ran a linear regression against ticket prices to weigh each metric and combined them to generate a final „game score“.

    2. realise it’s based on price and closeness etc but wild seeing USA vs AUS ranked higher for quality than like England vs Croatia

    3. Interesting analysis but beautiful this ain’t. Any chance of making those team names a bit blurrier?

    4. ENG vs CRO and FRA vs SEN have to the top 2 no?

      I know this is using a system but I think the system might be working unintended

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