Tournament forecast
Dixon-Coles + Monte-Carlo ยท 20,000 simulated tournaments ยท group-advance & title odds
Each tournament is played out 20,000 times: 72 group matches are sampled from the Dixon-Coles goal model, ranked with FIFA tie-breakers, the eight best third-placed teams qualify, and the full 32-team bracket is reconstructed from the official fixture slots (
1A, 2C, 3B/3E/โฆ, W83) and played to the final. Win cup bars are scaled to the leader. Group-stage odds are exact for the format; the knockout wiring follows the documented modelling assumptions in docs/13-simulation-model.md.