The Data Lab
Fifty tournaments of knockout football, turned into data. Elo models, probability, and rankings — each study built to be read at a glance and shared.
Players
Every knockout player in the archive — goals, assists and stat lines, every goal traced on the brackets — across the World Cup, Euros, Champions League and Europa League.
Browse players → ● Live · DirectoryClubs
Every club and national team from our players' career records — open any to see all the archive players who wore the shirt.
Browse clubs → ● Live · IndexThe Improbability Index
Every knockout run that beat the odds, ranked by how unlikely it was for that team — from mildly surprising down to Greece 2004.
Explore the index → ● Live · IndexPath Difficulty Index
Not how unlikely — how hard. Every champion's road ranked by the gauntlet of opponents a benchmark contender would have to survive.
Explore the index →Monte Carlo Predictor
Before the next tournament kicks off: 100,000 simulations off current Elo, and every team's odds of lifting the trophy — with a calibration check when it's over.
In the labPenalty Shootout Lab
Every knockout shootout in the archive: which nations hold their nerve, which bottle it, and just how close to a coin-flip it really is.
In the labBuilt on the same Elo pipeline as the brackets — World Football Elo for nations, ClubElo for clubs, both point-in-time. New studies land here as they're built. Curious how any number is made? Read the methodology & data coverage page.