Since I am a passionate football fan, I really enjoy taking looks at all different kinds of tables: local leagues, European champions competitions, continental and international tournaments like the UEFA EURO or FIFA world cup. The other day I discovered the All-time table of the FIFA World Cup. I instantly wondered what would happen, if you take different points of view e.g. subtract the home advantage, see if the continent where the tournament is played matters or create a new All-time table which includes scores from continental championships, qualification and friendly matches.

In the following I will answer the following questions:

1. Do hosting countries have a higher probability of winning games than other participating countries due to home advantage?
2. How does the all-time table change if you extract the games with home advantage?
3. Which larger active tournament has the highest avg. goals per game?

Thanks For Reading!

-Nicholas