World Cup '26

Trust Center

Trust & transparency

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

Live · 2026-06-25 · Day 15/39

System status

  • Match & schedule data

    Fixtures, kickoffs and live results

    Operational
  • Standings & bracket

    Group tables and knockout projections

    Operational
  • Forecast publication

    Daily Monte-Carlo snapshots

    Operational
  • Search & exports

    Ask the Almanac, calendar and data exports

    Operational

Status is derived from live data presence — each row pairs a color, a shape and a label so meaning never rests on color alone.

Freshness

Forecast as of

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Tournament day

15 / 39

Latest result reflected

Yes

The current forecast reflects all completed matches.Most recent final: JPN 11 SWE, played Thursday, June 25, 2026.

Forecast identity

Snapshot published
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Simulations
125,000
Methodology version
v1.4
Input data effective
Thursday, June 25, 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 125,000 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.