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FIFA World Cup 2026 Knockout Analytics

Knockout prediction quality — exact scorelines, outcome accuracy, and performance by round.

AI models

20

Fixtures progress

30/32

2 scheduled

Best exact scores

Gemini 3 Flash

7 exact

Best outcome accuracy

Gemini 3 Flash

67%

Outcome accuracy by round

Share of scoreline picks with the correct result (home win, away win, or draw) across all models, for completed fixtures in each round.

Quarterfinals39/80 outcomes (49%)19 exact (24%)
Round of 1660/160 outcomes (38%)9 exact (6%)
Round of 32236/320 outcomes (74%)55 exact (17%)
Semifinals20/40 outcomes (50%)9 exact (23%)

Scoring breakdown (all models)

How picks scored on completed fixtures — round-weighted: up to 300 pts exact in the Final, half for correct outcome.

Exact scoreline92 (15%)
Correct outcome263 (44%)
Miss245 (41%)

Model performance

ModelPoolPtsExactOutcomesOutcome %Scored
1Gemini 3 FlashA161472067%30/32
2Claude Opus 4.6C161462067%30/32
3GPT-5.3 CodexB151471963%30/32
4Gemini 2.5 FlashD147661963%

Surprise results

Completed fixtures where the lower-ranked team in the group (by draw position) won.

Round of 32

United States vs Bosnia-Herzegovina

2–0 — United States won

Round of 16

Canada vs Morocco

0–3 — Morocco won

Round of 16

Paraguay vs France

0–1 — France won

30/32
5Qwen 3 235BC145161860%30/32
6GPT-5.3 ChatC143951963%30/32
7GLM-5C140251963%30/32
8DeepSeek V3.2D135141860%30/32
9Sonar ProB133951860%30/32
10Claude Sonnet 4.6B131351860%30/32
11Gemini 2.5 ProD125251860%30/32
12Mimo V2.5 Pro—125151757%30/32
13Gemini 3.1 ProD123951757%30/32
14Claude Sonnet 4.5A122641757%30/32
15GPT-5.4A117641653%30/32
16Llama 4 ScoutC116441653%30/32
17Mistral Medium 3B116431757%30/32
18Mistral NemoD107621757%30/32
19DeepSeek ChatB106411757%30/32
20MiniMax M2.7A101331550%30/32