Goldman Sachs then ran one million simulations of World Cup outcomes to determine who would come out on top.
The financial firm used machine learning to come up with these predictions, feeding team characteristics, individual player data and recent team performance information into four machine learning models, which then compared that data to the scores of all of the World Cup and European Cup matches since 2005.
Goldman Sachs’ AI predicts Brazil will win the World Cup
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2018/06/11/goldman-sachs-ai-predicts-brazil-win-world-cup/