@@popculturetheology I kept saying, what, what what, oh, they are gone. How did they go away? Since he did mention em all… except. Oh well, who cares honestly, I liked this vid.
Of course us never won... have you ever seen they play footbal? Its hilarious, looks like a bunch of ducks runing around lol. Just kidding, as a matter of fact looks just like woman s football.
Germany wont do shit this wc and i say this as a german. We are lucky if we make it out of groups and will probably lose in the first game of the knock out stage. I have no idea why we are so high rated this german squad has so many issues
this was so fun to be a part of, simulating and gathering all the data for 4 hours from 3am till 7am, best thing to do on a night when you have bad insomnia 😂
Honestly, a 12% chance for Australia to qualify for the round of 16 somehow seems both a little too high, and yet a little too low Edit: the 12% was RIGHT!
11:00 Netherlands: featured in 11 finals out of 100 Me: sounds legit Netherlands: They only won 2 Me: That's so unrealistic. 11 loses out of 11 is more like it.
you are not crazy, he did not lol. i was waiting for it, and i thought they were gonna somehow meme their way to the top as they went further and further without being mentioned, but then they never were
The Netherlands only winning 2 out of 11 finals is actually realistic lol. Only nation in the world who has played in 3 world cup finals and lost all of them.
I wish you did this experiment again, taking into account the real squads from each team. FM makes some weird call ups to the NTs so we're simulating a very different scenario
I’m a little surprised the Netherlands didn’t make the top 5 in the group stage, only because the talent gap between them and the rest of the group is so extreme on paper, I’m shocked anyone scores on them at all.
This is the first time since 98 that I don't see México advancing to the knock out phase. Not only the 5th match is not going to happen, but I think that even the 4th is far away from reality...
@@AlbertoFolres The same thing was said in 2010, 2014, and 2018, it will defently be hard but Mexico will probably just about make it to the 4th game, but no 5th game
Except one of the worst Mexican teams in years tied on points, which means the Candians aren´t that good, there is no way they make it out of the groups.
As a moroccan i am happy with 1% to win the world cup and i bielive in my country Edit: WE NEARLY DID IT BUT PROUD OF MY COUNTRY SEMI FINAL IS GOOD DIMA MAGHRIB🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦
As someone supporting Mexico, at least there is statistically a dimension out there where they don’t get knocked out of the group stage for the millionth time, and actually win one too
Yea is so realistic. English players stats are boosted far above everyone. For example, Perišić has Corners: 11 and Crossing 13. Are you fuc*** kidding me? In real life his crosses and corners are so good, if he was English it would be 17 and 18. And also for all other Croatian players for example.
Tuvieron que actualizar la base de datos bien para que tire una simulación decente, pero a mi me pasa lo mismo en mi partida siempre la hacen mierda a la selección
FM only consider the players individual quality. Team with most quality players tend to win any tournament they're in. It never takes into consideration the coach's quality which is an important factor irl.
Fantastic video. Can't wait to compare it to the actual tournament. Only concerned that the data for the simulation is outdated for 2022. Times changed. Still valuable data. Thanks
Anyone else watching this after finding Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia, even though they were one of the highest ranked seeds vs. literally the worst team in the simulation?
I honestly think Japan could be a surprise team this WC, they have a younger, pretty talented team, I feel they could maybe make it through to another round of 16
@@jamesroberts8287 Germany has the second most titles, most finals, most semi finals. Also unbeaten since the Euros, upwards trajectory and usually high performing during tournaments. A slightly less than one out of five tournament wins seems like a fair estimate, also tracks with tournaments so far, since Germany won exactly 20% of the WCs they participated in.
When the first group was announced and it was close to no difference to reality I was so shocked… then as this went on it went as expected, especially with Germany winning in the simulations but not even making it to the quarter finals over Japan 😂🎉
Costa Rica made the quarters in 2014 and lost on penalties in the most bizarre shootout I've ever seen (Tim Krul subbed on as a shock trooper for NL). Canada have a freakishly good crop this year. Neither one making the semis would blow my mind
I mean it starts with the fact that Canada will have to win against Spain or Germany in the round of 16; Costa Rica have them as opponents in the group stage Not gonna happen I am fairly certain - well if Germany plays a 2018 style tournament maybe, but I don't think they will
@@Jonathanizer asking me or the other guy? I meant neither. It would be highly unlikely for Canada or Costa Rica to get that far and I would be quite surprised, but highly unlikely things happen at every world cup. Mind blowing applies to things like Brazil losing 7-1 or Italy failing to qualify this year
From what I've seen that means the only countries to make finals and never win were Cameroon, Ecuador, Senegal, United States and Wales If there are any other countries someone let me know
Hi Z! Great video, I watched it twice and did not see what happened to the US? I saw 56% making the knockout stage, but missed beyond that. Did you skip it, or am I still half asleep?🤔
It hurts me but I think he hid the fact the US didn't win a final. He didn't mention US in the group of non-winners but if you add up the percentage of times countries won the world cup, I don't think they won one.
He didn’t say. Based on the info shown, the US made the quarterfinal 18 of 100 times and made the final at least once (and lost). Please fill in the rest of the numbers!
I may have missed it but what happened with the USA? You showed that they won a knockout game 18 times but how many times did they make it to the semifinal and final?
7:49 i really like when you said qatar a psg flag pops up😂😂 cause psg have a really bad luck in round of 16 in recent times of ucl😂😂 Btw which country are you from bro?
@@derickmartinez8393 Ok because I saw that algeria got robbed and didn’t know it happened to Peru also! Im croatian supporter and I wish you to qualify next time. It happened to us many times as well, I hate it so much!
For calculation of group stage statistics, I believe you would need to divide the win, draw , loss numbers by # games played, times 100. So, (averaged # of win, draw, or loss / 3) *100. In 3:16 in the video, you stated that Saudi Arabia's win percentage was 13%, but it actually should be 4%. If their win % was 13%, their loss % is gonna be 242% which makes no sense. Other than that, thanks for an intriguing and well-made content! Let's goooo Korea 🇰🇷
I think we're assuming they only won 1 game max per tournament in which case they only won in 13% of the sims (and it would be lower had they won 2 in one sim at some point)
I mention every team that won a World Cup, which means yes, the US didn’t win
Or the other team you’re asking about
Then you should have listed them as to how many times they made the final and lost like you did the other teams.
@@popculturetheology I kept saying, what, what what, oh, they are gone. How did they go away? Since he did mention em all… except. Oh well, who cares honestly, I liked this vid.
Of course us never won... have you ever seen they play footbal? Its hilarious, looks like a bunch of ducks runing around lol. Just kidding, as a matter of fact looks just like woman s football.
Where can I find this full list?
@@caio16694 tell me you haven’t watched them play the last 2 years without telling me
Netherland losing 9 out of 11 World Cup finals is about right
Sounds more like the US
Yep, we are traumatised as a nation.
@@caferustwat I was actually in Amsterdam when you lost to Spain…what a night it could’ve been ☹️
Who said that FM wasn't realistic😂
11 out of 11 is sadly the only likely outcome
We're a week into the world cup and this has already aged hilariously
Germany about to get grouped 😂
Fr
Saudi Arabia 2 - 1 Argentina 😢
@@nicholasransom891 france told germany they could keep the wc curse
@@azaleayapsthis comment also didn't age the best.
Croatia lost soo many knockout games cuz they play either Germany or Spain once they get out of the group...
So true
Germany wont do shit this wc and i say this as a german. We are lucky if we make it out of groups and will probably lose in the first game of the knock out stage. I have no idea why we are so high rated this german squad has so many issues
@@Niclasla I actually have you as top 3 favorites
@@Niclasla You are delusional and embarrassing. Don't even think of celebrating when we win
@@franzivkovic4599 That's too high in my opinion, we might edge top 5 though.
At least they got my country right in FM. Netherlands bottling that many finals, not surprised.
The only other country that shares our (Argentina) pain
At least we won it twice out of 100 times in the stats. That's two more than the current IRL total! So yay!!!!
We're the Tottenham Hotspur of international football😭
@@thomashijman5905 Nah, you've won the euros in 88. The Tottenham of the international football would be Belgium
Ah well, atleast we get to the finals😃 some teams can only dream of it
There is no way France have a 98% chance of qualifying through the group. The winners curse never fails.
Brasil won 58/62.
Brazil 2002, made it through the group in 2006.
@@uberjens But the curse started after that, because Italy won 2006 and didn't make it through the group on 2010 and such
@@marcovisintin9670 No, because it happened before that aswell, when France won in 98 and was knocked out in the groupstage in 2002.
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That “God Save The Queen” bit aged well.
haha xD was looking for this
I was wondering about that. Then I realise he uploaded this video on 31 July. Wow!!
This aged nicely, Saudi Arabia beating Argentina, Canada nearly drawing with Belgium, Japan beating Germany
This comment aged nicely, Argentina winning
@@yorkieshire4582I'm pretty sure he was talking about the fact Saudi Arabia did better irl than in the sim. But sure make it about Argentina
@@EugeneRimmer seeing he talked about other countries, i'm pretty sure the focus was not only on saudi arabia
The simulation for Germany, and Belgium have gone wrong so far.
this was so fun to be a part of, simulating and gathering all the data for 4 hours from 3am till 7am, best thing to do on a night when you have bad insomnia 😂
Honestly, a 12% chance for Australia to qualify for the round of 16 somehow seems both a little too high, and yet a little too low
Edit: the 12% was RIGHT!
We weren't in the bottom 5, I'm stoked for that result considering we almost missed it altogether
@@isaacjenks587 facts
Feel bad for Stralia :(
They just did it :D
Hey
We need a full video of Zealand singing national anthems
*the star spangled banner music starts*
Zealand: Loans
11:00
Netherlands: featured in 11 finals out of 100
Me: sounds legit
Netherlands: They only won 2
Me: That's so unrealistic. 11 loses out of 11 is more like it.
Also the timecode is 11
My exact thoughts
Netherlands have got a finals curse
I can tell you’ve been hanging out with TIFO because you have the most dribbles award the name of dribbliest boy
I would like to see the most likely score per match so I can fill in 'my predictions' already and get it over with.
Well since France were the 2018 Champions we can remove every single one of the simulations where France won
Mexico and Poland had a lot in common that 2nd place on the phase group will be tight
Am I crazy or did Zealand not mention the US' knockout performances...?
you are not crazy, he did not lol. i was waiting for it, and i thought they were gonna somehow meme their way to the top as they went further and further without being mentioned, but then they never were
@@AjLechtenberg same 😂
I assume they made a final but did not win
The Netherlands only winning 2 out of 11 finals is actually realistic lol. Only nation in the world who has played in 3 world cup finals and lost all of them.
This video aged pretty well lol Germany didn’t even make it to the round of sixteen
I wish you did this experiment again, taking into account the real squads from each team. FM makes some weird call ups to the NTs so we're simulating a very different scenario
4:29 That escalated quickly
Nice video btw! Great work on all the stats. Looking forward to see the 32 episodes for the World Cup :) Subscribed
What really would be interesting is comparing those runs with the real World Cup and if any of those 100 runs identically resembles the real cup.
That aged ... like milk - Saudi Arabia win against Argentina. Whoever was making bets on this won big :D
Even before this video, I was dead set that it would be a Germany - Spain world final, so I’m glad FM agrees with me
GE vs SPain, this one is for Spain to win :)
hmmm, about that...
@@nekroneko 💀
Aged like milk
Germany couldn't even make it to the RO16, and spain just got humiliated
Earliest I've ever been to a Zealand video. Hoping Australia manage to win a simulation
Edit: nvm
I know the feeling💔😭🇦🇺
To be honest. With Arnold we were lucky to win 1 knockout game in the simulation
Our team is shit
I’m a little surprised the Netherlands didn’t make the top 5 in the group stage, only because the talent gap between them and the rest of the group is so extreme on paper, I’m shocked anyone scores on them at all.
Gotta be honest. As an Aussie I was terrified we were gonna feature in that bottom 5
Thank you for putting the work into this simulation and video. I LOVE this type of ish
I also love how Mexico and USA have a 48% higher chance than Canada to make it but Canada qualified in position #1 :o
Ikr
Canada are objectively a world class team right now and for some reason FM clearly doesn't seem to reflect it
This is the first time since 98 that I don't see México advancing to the knock out phase. Not only the 5th match is not going to happen, but I think that even the 4th is far away from reality...
@@AlbertoFolres The same thing was said in 2010, 2014, and 2018, it will defently be hard but Mexico will probably just about make it to the 4th game, but no 5th game
Except one of the worst Mexican teams in years tied on points, which means the Candians aren´t that good, there is no way they make it out of the groups.
@@fernandoborja6963 tied on points but they couldnt beat us...
Losing finals is at the core of Dutch DNA. Even FM gets that right
As a moroccan i am happy with 1% to win the world cup and i bielive in my country
Edit: WE NEARLY DID IT BUT PROUD OF MY COUNTRY SEMI FINAL IS GOOD
DIMA MAGHRIB🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦
🇲🇦🇲🇦❤️❤️
Same I'm also moroccan
Congrats for reaching the semifinals
@@pressstart1490 thanks
@@zikopro7369 Well my country made it to the Final. You will know wich one only if we win. I will come back
that's crazy, germany had 97% chance of qualifying and still couldn't do it
i was confused from the title and thought you simulated 400 years of world football
I did as well
As a german I am Happy with a 19% Chance of winning
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Hello Happy with a 19% Chance of winning, I'm callum
@@callumpartridge625 Hello callum i am approaching your location
As a Spanish I would be really happy if the final was Germany-Spain. It would be a great match for sure :)
19% is actually lower than Germany's winning percentage so far. Germany played 20 WC tournaments and won 4 times, so that's exactly 20%.
1:45 "Morocco were actually pretty good"
Never mind, just saw Germany 😂
Saudi Arabia being the worst after beating Argentina (ranked second in group stages) today is hilarious
Awesome vid Zealand! Loved being able to help out on this one!
As a costarican 7% chances of making in past group stage is not that bad but as Han Solo said "never tell me the odds"
Esta muy difícil el grupo, muy tuanis sería pasar a la siguiente ronda.
6:17 That aged well.
As someone supporting Mexico, at least there is statistically a dimension out there where they don’t get knocked out of the group stage for the millionth time, and actually win one too
Surprise surprise, Saudi beat Argentina and Japan beat Germany 😆
Surprised how realistic this is tbh Well done FM!
spain and germany are not that good. at the moment. argentina france and brazil are better than them forsure.
@@hivanberg3681 not france
Yea is so realistic. English players stats are boosted far above everyone. For example, Perišić has Corners: 11 and Crossing 13. Are you fuc*** kidding me? In real life his crosses and corners are so good, if he was English it would be 17 and 18. And also for all other Croatian players for example.
@@hivanberg3681 u lost to saudi arabia 😂😂
@@luuk2782 only team with 6 points... HATER 🤣🤣🤣
Argentina in this simulation: Qualifies 92% of the times and wins 11/100 Cups
Argentina on my saves: Never qualifies to the Knockout Stages
Tuvieron que actualizar la base de datos bien para que tire una simulación decente, pero a mi me pasa lo mismo en mi partida siempre la hacen mierda a la selección
I mean the Saudi Arabians are doing better than predicted 😂😂
Him saying things after saying "that's gonna surprise ya" and me watching the video in October 2023😑
FM only consider the players individual quality. Team with most quality players tend to win any tournament they're in. It never takes into consideration the coach's quality which is an important factor irl.
Fantastic video. Can't wait to compare it to the actual tournament. Only concerned that the data for the simulation is outdated for 2022.
Times changed. Still valuable data.
Thanks
Anyone else watching this after finding Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia, even though they were one of the highest ranked seeds vs. literally the worst team in the simulation?
I honestly think Japan could be a surprise team this WC, they have a younger, pretty talented team, I feel they could maybe make it through to another round of 16
you got it lol
@@bruhman6935 I genuinely don’t remember making this prediction but thank god, because my bracket is still good pretty much
The best is all the runs fail to see the win of saudi arabia over Argentina
Haven't watched the video yet. The most likely team to win is England, FM will be FM
You thought
It was Germany which I doubt will happen in real life
I wish
Not this year
@@jamesroberts8287 Germany has the second most titles, most finals, most semi finals. Also unbeaten since the Euros, upwards trajectory and usually high performing during tournaments. A slightly less than one out of five tournament wins seems like a fair estimate, also tracks with tournaments so far, since Germany won exactly 20% of the WCs they participated in.
Can we have access to that spreed sheet? Would be cool to see it in total, and not just bits of it.
Let's not forget that IRL England have 100% of all the world cup finals they've reached!
We've only reached one final, but let's not talk about that!
When the first group was announced and it was close to no difference to reality I was so shocked… then as this went on it went as expected, especially with Germany winning in the simulations but not even making it to the quarter finals over Japan 😂🎉
This doesn't seem to be working very well a week into the actual tournament.
I wonder what would be the simulation for previous world cups and their actual results. Sounds like a winner for a video.
I am watching this on the day of Argentina 1 - 2 Saudi Arabia, so...yeah.
Uruguay didn't win in 1934, they won in 1930 and again in 1950.
10:15 because their first knock out opponent would be either Spain or Germany
watching this after Saudi won against Argentina 2:1 and Germany lost to Japan 2:1 just to see the odds of this happening
FM underrating Canada is pretty much par for the course for the last, oh, forever years
Costa Rica made the quarters in 2014 and lost on penalties in the most bizarre shootout I've ever seen (Tim Krul subbed on as a shock trooper for NL). Canada have a freakishly good crop this year. Neither one making the semis would blow my mind
Genuinely my mind would be blown if either one makes the semis.
I mean it starts with the fact that Canada will have to win against Spain or Germany in the round of 16; Costa Rica have them as opponents in the group stage
Not gonna happen I am fairly certain - well if Germany plays a 2018 style tournament maybe, but I don't think they will
Did you really mean "neither", or you meant "either"?
@@Jonathanizer asking me or the other guy? I meant neither. It would be highly unlikely for Canada or Costa Rica to get that far and I would be quite surprised, but highly unlikely things happen at every world cup. Mind blowing applies to things like Brazil losing 7-1 or Italy failing to qualify this year
My grammar was poor and I should have said if either one made it to the semis it wouldn’t blow my mind
From what I've seen that means the only countries to make finals and never win were Cameroon, Ecuador, Senegal, United States and Wales
If there are any other countries someone let me know
Trinidad and Tobago
@@shanglaithotsem5771 💀
Great Video
Watching this again after Saudi Arabia beat Argentina makes it seem like even more of a miracle! Group C is the Group of Death!
This didn't age well. Saudi beating Argentina
Great video but the highlight for me was "Dribbliest Boy" 😂😂
THE LONG WAIT IS FINALLY HERE!
Japan: And I took that personally
Saudi Arabia winning was completely unpredictable was it
here after Argentina got upset by Saudi Arabia
Mate this aged so well
Simulating 100 times to find which team is gonna lose to England in the final
Hi Z! Great video, I watched it twice and did not see what happened to the US? I saw 56% making the knockout stage, but missed beyond that. Did you skip it, or am I still half asleep?🤔
It hurts me but I think he hid the fact the US didn't win a final. He didn't mention US in the group of non-winners but if you add up the percentage of times countries won the world cup, I don't think they won one.
He didn’t say. Based on the info shown, the US made the quarterfinal 18 of 100 times and made the final at least once (and lost). Please fill in the rest of the numbers!
Well, rip Germany, at least they won on FM
That at 9:33, that one I hope is the universe we are living in right now.
9:31 this video pretty much predicted Morocco's Cinderela run.
Marocco is going for that one final
Me encantó tu canal!! Saludos desde México 💪
Just goes to show, even FM can't predict real life.
Good to know my country Morocco won a world cup in a simulation
Love the As Roma Shirt... any time you gon do a roma save? :D
Something like this should be done again when the squads are locked
I may have missed it but what happened with the USA? You showed that they won a knockout game 18 times but how many times did they make it to the semifinal and final?
Yeah, I looked back a few times and didn't see anything.
7:49 i really like when you said qatar a psg flag pops up😂😂 cause psg have a really bad luck in round of 16 in recent times of ucl😂😂
Btw which country are you from bro?
Screw this World Cup. My team would have gone directly if it weren’t for corruption.
Is it Algeria?
@@matija5555 Peru 🇵🇪
@@derickmartinez8393 Ok because I saw that algeria got robbed and didn’t know it happened to Peru also! Im croatian supporter and I wish you to qualify next time. It happened to us many times as well, I hate it so much!
The Netherlands doing the most Dutch thing ever - reaching 1 out of 10 world cup finals, never to win it.
For calculation of group stage statistics, I believe you would need to divide the win, draw , loss numbers by # games played, times 100. So, (averaged # of win, draw, or loss / 3) *100. In 3:16 in the video, you stated that Saudi Arabia's win percentage was 13%, but it actually should be 4%. If their win % was 13%, their loss % is gonna be 242% which makes no sense. Other than that, thanks for an intriguing and well-made content! Let's goooo Korea 🇰🇷
I think we're assuming they only won 1 game max per tournament in which case they only won in 13% of the sims (and it would be lower had they won 2 in one sim at some point)
When ya say “without further ado” you should use HITC7’s phrase an say “without Freddy Adu” ya know, you’re American an that.
I dare you to say quickly "Juan won one World Cup" 3x without having a stroke.
Now do the simulation again, but with qatar paying off all the refs.
"The most likely winner is germany" - This prediction didn't age well
this thing is funny
Brazil, Germany, Spain, Belgium having good chances, while Croatia is just sitting on 1 is kinda funny
"Morocco won world cup" hmm no wonder they only bowed out in the semi finals
FM is awful to Canada, it’s ridiculous. America and Mexico get nerfed but we beat them both in the qualifiers and dominated the group.
me watching this after Saudi Arabia won against Argentina in their first group-stage match
Excellent, Zealand! Can you provide us with this spreadsheet that you display in the video?
Funny to notice that in the entire sheet the most abnormal thing is netherlands losing most finals they actually made
Argentina wasn't a surprise in the group stage success as it was spoiled in the England stat reveal lol