Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage

hotsauce writes "The BBC has a piece about how Australia is using software to gain an advantage in the World Cup. The Socceroos are running software that looks for patterns in attacks of the opposing team. It also shows the effectiveness of different response strategies by recording where attacks fail when countered. This is the first time Australia has reached the World Cup in 30 years, but a real test of the technology will come today when Australia must take on five-time and current world champions Brasil. The Socceroos talk about specific strategies for that game, also."

Software vs. Brasil

[pwnage]

So much for software. Must be using Windows. Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll!!!!!

Good strategies when playing Brasil

[also-rr]

Placing 5000$ (AUS) on Brasil to win would be a good start.

Processing...

[linvir]

...Strategy calculated.
Strategy:

1. Concede one goal.
2. Concede one goal

"Sorry lads, a few more bugs to work out! Lads? Nooooooo..."

Apparently...

[Anonymous Coward]

Italy doesn't have this software.

Re:2-0 for that bull crap software

[Anonymous Coward]

Australians don't get it, is not about technology, is about passion, tradition and love for the game.

They're playing football, not mornington crescent.

Re:Nice work

[Anonymous Coward]

Woh woh woh, wait a minute. Whats this coding analogy? Who understands that?

Give me a car analogy, so I can really understand what your talking about!

Re:And they lost...

[maxter3185]

Yeah, the human component of it.

WTF!? Spoiler Alert, Mod Parent DOWN!

[stratjakt]

We're about 12 hrs behind Australia time, the game hasn't even been aired here yet!

THANKS A HEAP

Worse yet...

[gowen]

In time for next years Ashes, their cricket team is going to have a computer that advises their skipper not to take suicidal runs to substitute fielders.

Re:Technology makes people lazy

[aklix]

Looks like anti-cheat has once again beat the hackers.

USA technology

[Tablizer]

Oh yeah, well the US team is gonna use technology also. We will use Predator drones to shoot the enemy team, and then turtore the survivors with electricity while blindfolded in a black hood. Our Soccer team won't ever be booed again on the world domin.....uh...stage again!

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Re:Did well in the first half

[ceejayoz]

Go watch some Aussie Rules Football and you'll realize they're actually being quite restrained. ;-)

Germany vs. Greece

[pipingguy]

"The Philosophers' Football Match [wikipedia.org] was a comedy sketch on Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus and later a part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

The sketch depicted a football match between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking while walking on the pitch in circles. This left Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch (and a "surprise inclusion" in the German team, according to the commentary), more than a little confused. Confucius was the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine were the linesmen."

I forget who finally "gets it" and does a goal rush. Very funny sketch, what with the announcer enthusiastically describing what is basically nothing happening.

See also http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/internati onal-philosophy.htm [mtholyoke.edu] for a transcript.

Re:Technology didn't do it today...

[Nybarius]

Yeah, what a bunch of crap. No matter how much hard work and ingenuity the developed nations of the world put into winning, an unearned genetic endowment is still enough to beat them. Thankfully, this imbalance will be righted soon, as the singularity is nigh.

great

[Anonymous Coward]

really great, but did not work today against Brasil. 8-) BRASIL!!!

Re:Technology didn't do it today...

[pete_townshend]

God you're a wanker...

Re:And they lost...

[bbc]

"Yeah? They just lost to Brazil, 2 - 0. The software must be faulty somewhere..."

Not really, but Australia were using version 1.4, whereas Brazil had managed to get access to an early beta of 2.0.

Re:Technology didn't do it today...

[Eccles]

There isn't any technology yet that can keep someone from mentally choking.

If there was, I'm sure Phil Mickelson would have bought it. Clearly he did not.

EA Sports, its in the game.

[toy4two]

Sounds like someone simulated a FIFA 2006 game on PS2, CPU vs CPU.

Re:Technology DID do it today...

[loconet]

Is this the first time such an indepth discussion about a sporting event has taken place on slashdot?

Rule number one

[Bloke down the pub]

The Socceroos talk about specific strategies for that game, also.

The only ones that would have a hope in hell of succeeding are:

A) Pick the ball up and run with it.
B) Change the shape of the ball to oval.
C) Start a fight.

I guess "all three of the above" is an option too. Do you think it would catch on?