Germany will win World Cup, German science professor calculates

Blackleaf

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It will be news to dishearten English football fans, who don't like seeing the Germans, French, Argentinians and Scots winning matches (although, of course, the Scots don't win that often).

But a university professor has developed a mathematical formula which he says shows that Germany will win this year's World Cup in South Africa.

The professor, who is, of course, German (who says the Germans are arrogant?), says that his formula analyses all Germany's results from previous World Cups and predicts a winner for this year's tournament - and that is Germany, who will play Australia, Serbia and Ghana in Group D.

But there are two main things going against the nutty professor:

1) He also predicted that Germany would win the 2006 World Cup, but Italy won it instead, and;

2) No European country has ever won the World Cup outside of Europe.

Germany have won the World Cup three times, in 1954 (in which they cheated by injecting themselves with performance enchancing drugs before the Final against the "Mighty Magyars" of Hungary), 1974 and 1990.

Only Italy (four times) and Brazil (five times) have won the World Cup on more occasions.

Germany will win World Cup, science professor calculates

21 Apr 2010
The Telegraph


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A university professor has developed a mathematical formula which, he claims, shows Germany will win the 2010 World Cup in South Africa this June.

Germany face Australia, Serbia and Ghana in Group D, but Prof Metin Tolan, a physics professor at the University of Dortmund, is convinced German captain Michael Ballack will be lifting the World Cup following the final on July 11.

The scientist has written a formula based on trigonometry which analyses all Germany's results from previous World Cups and predicts a winner for this year's tournament.

Having won the World Cup three times, in 1954, 1974 and 1990, Germany's average finishing place at previous tournaments is 3.7 and Prof Tolan says his formula shows this will be Germany's year to lift the trophy.


Germany win the World Cup in 1990, after appearing in their third Final in succession

"It is very simple, all my calculations prove this," he told Germany magazine "Zeit Wissen".

"The last time we won the World Cup was back in 1990 and there have been four tournaments since," explained Tolan.

"The average finishing place of the Germany team is 3.7 and the German team wins the title every fourth or fifth World Cup.

"Nobody can beat us this year and you can already put the champagne on ice."

Prof Tolan already predicted Germany would win the last World Cup, which they hosted in 2006, but unfortunately for his theory, the home nation was beaten by eventual winners Italy in the semi-finals.

"My formula gave the winner for the following World Cup, this is why it works this time for sure," he explained undeterred after Jurgen Klinsmann's side beat Portugal 3-1 to finish third at the last World Cup.

But Prof Tolan's equations could also help Germany's arch-rivals England, who were dumped out of the last World Cup after being beaten on penalties by Portugal, as Fabio Capello's side have a history of struggling with spot-kicks.

"The weakest kicker should take the first penalty, then the second-weakest and so on," he said.

"Then you have the greatest chance of scoring as many goals as possible."

Germany (and, previously, West Germany), have been in the World Cup Final an incredible seven times.

1954 World Cup Final - Beat Hungary 3-2
1966 World Cup Final - Lost 4-2 against England
1974 World Cup Final - Beat Netherlands 2-1
1982 World Cup Final - Lost 3-1 against Italy
1986 World Cup Final - Lost 3-2 against Argentina
1990 World Cup Final - Beat Argentina 1-0
2002 World Cup Final - Lost 2-0 against Brazil

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Bar Sinister

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Wonderful. Think of all the money that will be saved by not having to attend a single game. Award Germany the cup right now.
 

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Gotta love these scientist twits who think they can predict the future without factoring all the millions of unknown factors that can and will come into play.

Weather, Health of the Team, Injuries, Volcanic Ash :lol: , a cow falling from the sky and killing their star player..... there is simply no way he can predict who farts 20 minutes from now, let alone who wins a sporting event. If there was a way, I'm sure he wouldn't have told anybody and placed all bets, becoming a millionaire.

And considering he's been wrong before, he's no better then the crazy, homeless guy on Queen St. who tells your fortune in a plastic bucket full of spit.