World Cup '26

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Trust & transparency

How current, reliable and explainable today's data and forecast are.

Live · 2026-07-20 · Day 40/39

System status

  • Snapshot freshness

    Today's daily Monte-Carlo snapshot is published

    latest snapshot 2026-07-20; expected ≥ 2026-07-20

    Operational
  • Results feed

    The live feed knows at least the bundled results

    feed finished=102, seed finished=28

    Operational
  • Daily run

    This morning's compute completed without error

    today's run idle

    Operational
  • Daily brief

    Recap, stat of the day and movers for the latest snapshot

    daily content present for 2026-07-20

    Operational

These are the same live checks /api/health reports — each row pairs a color, a shape and a label so meaning never rests on color alone.

Freshness

Forecast as of

Monday, July 20, 2026

Tournament day

40 / 39

Latest result reflected

Yes

The current forecast reflects all completed matches.Most recent final: ESP 10 ARG, played Sunday, July 19, 2026.

Forecast identity

Snapshot published
Monday, July 20, 2026
Simulations
250,000
Methodology version
v1.4
Input data effective
Monday, July 20, 2026
Includes latest result
Yes

Corrections ledger

DateAffectedPreviousCorrectedReason

No public corrections recorded this tournament.

When a published figure is amended, it is logged here with what changed and why — the legend above shows the structure each entry would take.

Methodology & changelog

Read the methodology →

The full engine write-up — ratings, the goal model, determinism and known limitations — lives on the methodology page. Recent product changes:

  1. Jun 2026Editorial redesign — The AlmanacA luxe, magazine-grade rebuild of every public surface.
  2. May 2026Match Leverage addedPer-fixture swing scores quantify how much each match moves the field.
  3. Apr 2026My Cup personalizationFollow nations to assemble a personalized tournament view.
  4. Mar 2026Trust Center launchedThis page — system status, freshness and forecast provenance in one place.

Calibration

The forecast is a deterministic Monte-Carlo engine: every morning it fixes the results that have actually happened and simulates the remainder of the tournament 250,000 times, counting how often each outcome occurs. Because probabilities are read straight off those counts, they are calibrated by construction — a 30% chance happens in close to 30% of runs.

The honest caveats: sample sizes for rare events (a specific final pairing, an unlikely run) are small, so those figures carry real noise; and the model cannot see injuries, suspensions, tactics or form. These are forecasts, not guarantees — a strong favorite still loses often enough to matter.