Wharton Sports Analytics Journal

Open Access · ISSN 3070-4065

SPRING 2023

Why Did They Succeed? A World Cup 2022 Analysis

AUTHORS

Aaron Lim
Harrison Goetz
Fangzhou Dai
Kelly Zhang
Neil Varwandkar

Advisor: Naomi Korn

ABSTRACT

The World Cup is considered the premier competition in soccer, with the winner claiming the honor of the title of the sport’s best. Different factors contribute to teams making it all the way to the final and doing well in the competition. We took a whole host of data from the 2022 Qatar World Cup, and gave each team a final rank as well as statistics for each team.

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