From: wc94@cantor.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Worldcup 94)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: THE FINAL RESULTS OF THE 1994 QUALITY POLL
Date: 28 Jul 1994 14:44:35 GMT

Dear world-cup friends,
here is the final result of our "quality voting".
I went through all the votings and had to throw away
a few double-votes (people voting for the same match
from two different email addresses).
I also disqualified one voter (from country X)
who only voted for games where country X was participating,
giving a 10 to team X each time and a 1 to the opponent in most cases.
Sorry, this did not look like a neutral voting, so I discarded
it.

To have a comparison, after the 1994 results,
I also list the 1990 results. It seems that the worldcup 90
came away with better votings than this year's.

So, we can call Romania-Argentina the best match of this tournament 
by far. Like 1990's final (Germany-Argentina), Brazil-Italy
was amongst the 10 worst matches.

THE 1994 QUALITY POLL
=====================

There are     1677 votes by       94 persons.

By match:
1st team    - 2nd team    round avg score  #votes  avg score
                                for Game           1st & 2nd team
Romania     - Argentina   (1/8)   8.49       45    8.27  7.20
Netherlands - Brazil      (1/4)   7.89       38    7.05  7.13
Germany     - Belgium     (1/8)   7.50       46    7.57  6.46
Romania     - Colombia    (Pre)   7.49       43    7.53  5.30
Romania     - Switzerland (Pre)   7.21       28    4.36  7.39
Netherlands - Belgium     (Pre)   7.11       44    6.34  6.84
Germany     - SouthKorea  (Pre)   6.76       41    5.34  6.29
Spain       - SouthKorea  (Pre)   6.56       34    5.09  5.82
Netherlands - Ireland     (1/8)   6.48       42    7.24  5.29
USA         - Colombia    (Pre)   6.37       35    6.54  4.34
Cameroon    - Sweden      (Pre)   6.30       30    6.10  5.70
Russia      - Cameroon    (Pre)   6.30       23    6.91  3.13
Italy       - Bulgaria    (1/2)   6.27       26    6.50  5.00
Brazil      - Cameroon    (Pre)   6.25       32    7.47  4.22
Bulgaria    - Sweden      (3rd)   6.23       13    4.08  7.23
Argentina   - Nigeria     (Pre)   6.21       42    6.95  5.29
Germany     - Bulgaria    (1/4)   6.21       39    5.64  6.10
Belgium     - SaudiArabia (Pre)   6.12       17    4.82  6.35
Netherlands - SaudiArabia (Pre)   6.03       35    5.49  5.69
Spain       - Switzerland (1/8)   5.97       30    6.77  4.80
SaudiArabia - Sweden      (1/8)   5.97       30    4.77  6.43
Romania     - Sweden      (1/4)   5.94       36    5.44  5.50
Italy       - Ireland     (Pre)   5.92       53    4.53  6.36
Bulgaria    - Nigeria     (Pre)   5.89       27    3.85  6.85
Italy       - Spain       (1/4)   5.85       34    5.41  6.03
Brazil      - Sweden      (Pre)   5.85       26    6.19  6.00
Brazil      - Russia      (Pre)   5.78       45    7.20  3.53
Mexico      - Norway      (Pre)   5.71       45    4.47  5.96
Switzerland - Colombia    (Pre)   5.70       23    4.70  6.52
Italy       - Mexico      (Pre)   5.67       24    5.17  5.58
Argentina   - Greece      (Pre)   5.65       31    7.13  2.19
Russia      - Sweden      (Pre)   5.63       19    4.16  6.26
Morocco     - SaudiArabia (Pre)   5.60       20    5.50  5.30
Netherlands - Morocco     (Pre)   5.58       19    5.53  5.21
Spain       - Bolivia     (Pre)   5.57       14    5.93  4.79
Nigeria     - Italy       (1/8)   5.56       39    4.97  5.13
Ireland     - Mexico      (Pre)   5.55       22    4.68  6.09
Belgium     - Morocco     (Pre)   5.48       31    5.39  5.52
Romania     - USA         (Pre)   5.46       37    5.76  4.95
Brazil      - USA         (1/8)   5.41       51    6.04  4.35
Spain       - Germany     (Pre)   5.38       53    5.64  5.25
Brazil      - Sweden      (1/2)   5.33       24    6.75  4.25
Italy       - Norway      (Pre)   5.22       37    6.05  4.14
Argentina   - Bulgaria    (Pre)   5.10       20    4.50  5.80
Mexico      - Bulgaria    (1/8)   5.03       38    4.61  4.87
USA         - Switzerland (Pre)   4.69       45    4.64  5.13
Brazil      - Italy       (1st)   4.65       26    5.85  4.85
Bulgaria    - Greece      (Pre)   4.65       20    5.75  2.15
Nigeria     - Greece      (Pre)   4.60       10    5.60  2.70
SouthKorea  - Bolivia     (Pre)   4.53       17    5.00  4.29
Ireland     - Norway      (Pre)   4.48       23    4.48  4.17
Germany     - Bolivia     (Pre)   4.11       55    4.96  3.65

By team (taking the average over the averages of the matches):

Brazil        242 votes   6.69 average score
Argentina     138 votes   6.45 average score
Netherlands   178 votes   6.33 average score
Romania       189 votes   6.27 average score
Sweden        178 votes   6.05 average score
Spain         165 votes   5.89 average score
Belgium       138 votes   5.88 average score
Germany       234 votes   5.75 average score
SouthKorea     92 votes   5.71 average score
Nigeria       118 votes   5.68 average score
SaudiArabia   102 votes   5.53 average score
Switzerland   126 votes   5.51 average score
Morocco        70 votes   5.41 average score
Colombia      101 votes   5.39 average score
Italy         239 votes   5.38 average score
Ireland       140 votes   5.20 average score
Mexico        129 votes   5.19 average score
USA           168 votes   5.12 average score
Bulgaria      183 votes   5.06 average score
Russia         87 votes   4.87 average score
Norway        105 votes   4.75 average score
Cameroon       85 votes   4.48 average score
Bolivia        86 votes   4.24 average score
Greece         61 votes   2.35 average score



THE 1990 results
=================================================

Games are in the order of how good they were....

Team A    B                avg. A        B     Game

 1 GER - ENG   (1/2)           #8.3     8.5     9.2
 2 CAM - ENG   (1/4)           #8.3     6.9     8.8
 3 GER - HOL   (1/8)           #8.7     7.6     8.6
 4 ENG - ITA   (ltl. final)    #7.2     7.7     7.9
 5 BEL - ENG   (1/8)           #8.2     7.1     7.8
 6 ITA - CZE                   #8.3     6.2     7.5
 7 ITA - ARG   (1/2)           #6.9     7.0     7.4
 8 BEL - URU                   #7.9     6.2     7.4
 9 BEL - ESP                   #7.0     7.2     7.2
10 GER - YUG                   #8.2     5.0     7.1
11 AUT - ITA                   #5.3     7.7     7.0
12 GER - UAE                   #8.0     3.5     7.0
13 SWE - CRI                   #4.0     7.3     7.0
14 BRA - SWE                   #7.1     6.2     7.0
15 ITA - IRL   (1/4)           #6.8     6.6     6.9
16 SWE - SCO                   #5.7     6.5     6.7
17 YUG - ESP   (1/8)           #6.2     6.5     6.6
18 IRL - HOL                   #6.7     6.2     6.6
19 CAM - USS                   #3.5     7.9     6.5
20 BRA - ARG   (1/8)           #7.7     5.2     6.5
21 ARG - ROM                   #6.0     6.3     6.4
22 KOR - ESP                   #5.1     6.9     6.4
23 KOR - URU                   #5.3     5.5     6.3
24 HOL - EGY                   #4.7     6.5     6.2
25 ITA - URU   (1/8)           #7.1     5.3     6.2
26 USS - ROM                   #4.5     6.7     6.1
27 GER - CZE   (1/4)           #7.1     5.7     6.1
28 ARG - CAM                   #4.1     6.2     6.1
29 CZE - CRI   (1/8)           #7.0     4.6     6.1
30 CAM - ROM                   #6.5     5.3     5.8
31 ARG - YUG   (1/4)           #5.2     6.5     5.8
32 BRA - SCO                   #6.0     4.9     5.8
33 GER - COL                   #5.9     5.7     5.7
34 CZE - AUT                   #6.3     5.0     5.6
35 USA - CZE                   #2.4     6.8     5.6
36 YUG - UAE                   #6.4     4.0     5.6
37 IRL - ROM   (1/8)           #5.9     5.8     5.5
38 ARG - USS                   #5.6     5.0     5.4
39 ENG - HOL                   #6.0     5.0     5.3
40 ITA - USA                   #5.2     5.1     5.3
41 CRI - SCO                   #4.6     4.2     5.1
42 BEL - KOR                   #6.1     3.9     5.1
43 GER - ARG   (final)         #6.8     3.2     4.9
44 CAM - COL   (1/8)           #5.2     4.7     4.9
45 YUG - COL                   #5.7     4.8     4.9
46 ENG - EGY                   #5.8     4.0     4.6
47 AUT - USA                   #5.4     4.0     4.6
48 BRA - CRI                   #5.8     3.9     4.4
49 URU - ESP                   #5.3     3.4     4.1
50 COL - UAE                   #4.8     3.1     4.0
51 IRL - EGY                   #5.1     2.7     3.6
52 ENG - IRL                   #3.5     4.3     3.3


 Here  is the list of the best teams from 1990's world cup, according
 to the net people's opinion, taking the average for every team over
 all played matches.
=======================================================================

 1 GER  7 games, net's average: 7.56
 2 BEL  4 games, net's average: 7.31
 3 ITA  7 games, net's average: 7.10
 4 BRA  4 games, net's average: 6.62
 5 ENG  7 games, net's average: 6.39
 6 CZE  5 games, net's average: 6.38
 7 ROM  4 games, net's average: 6.02
 8 ESP  4 games, net's average: 6.01
 9 YUG  5 games, net's average: 5.97
10 CAM  5 games, net's average: 5.95
11 HOL  4 games, net's average: 5.86
12 USS  3 games, net's average: 5.79
13 IRL  5 games, net's average: 5.70
14 URU  4 games, net's average: 5.58
15 SWE  3 games, net's average: 5.29
16 AUT  3 games, net's average: 5.24
17 SCO  3 games, net's average: 5.19
18 ARG  7 games, net's average: 5.18
19 CRI  4 games, net's average: 5.11
20 COL  4 games, net's average: 5.01
21 KOR  3 games, net's average: 4.73
22 EGY  3 games, net's average: 4.40
23 USA  3 games, net's average: 3.81
24 UAE  3 games, net's average: 3.51