Goldman Sachs Report – This Is Who Will Win The World Cup

Goldman SachsGoldman Sachs Research have published the sixth edition of their book “World Cup and Economics” which includes “economic insight, tenuous correlations and footballing views” for public use “as a guide and companion through the upcoming competition.”

They make some bold claims after crunching 200,000 probability trees and 1 million simulations, specifically:

“England meets Germany in the quarters, where Germany wins; and Germany meets Brazil in the final, and Brazil prevails.”

The full report can be found here, in the interim there is this brief video:

Brazilians Boast the World Cup’s Most Valuable Team

Source: Statista

Brazil is sending the most valuable team to the FIFA world cup 2018 in Russia. German transfer market portal Transfermarkt estimates that the 25 players on the team have a combined market worth of 673 million euros. Germany and France share the second spot with 636.5 million euros each.

One big difference between the three teams is that of most of the Brazilian players don’t play in their home league (88 percent), while only 41.7 percent of the German national players are employed abroad and 58.3 percent of the French players score their income in foreign leagues.

England is in the top ten most valuable teams too. Its cadre is worth some 279 million euros. However, it’s one of the world cup teams with most players playing at home. Only 4.3 percent play on foreign pits.

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