The World Cup is now in group stage. Each group has four teams. The top two teams advance to the knockout stage. This video explains the 7 tiebreaker steps, and uses Microsoft Excel to analyze the 729 permutations that can happen in any one group. How likely is it that the tiebreaker will need to be used?<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/p>\n

(0:00) World Cup Group Stage Scoring
\n(1:00) Tiebreaker rules
\n(1:50) Odds of a tiebreaker
\n(2:20) Excel Model for one group
\n(2:50) TEXTSPLIT function
\n(3:22) Excel Trace Dependents
\n(3:45) Scoring & Sorting
\n(4:10) Detecting a Tie
\n(4:41) Why 729 permutations
\n(4:53) 28% tiebreaker chance
\n(5:46) Six draws leads to 12 points
\n(6:04) 18 points total
\n(6:40) Which results have a tie?
\n(7:28) Excel behind the scenes
\n(8:00) 7 answers from 6 inputs
\n(9:19) Contemplated VBA
\n(9:39) Multiple input cells to Excel data table
\n(10:49) Generating 729 input cells
\n(12:44) Setting up the Data Table
\n(14:51) Paste results as values<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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