how to the predictions affect players as they go into the games? let s ask professional soccer player maurice edu. he s featured on the cover of the fifa world cup video games. and ed fang who uses an algorit algorithm. he s getting to us on this numbers question. i ll start with that. ed, you have an interesting interactive feature an your website with the odds of making the finals for each team. can you explain why we went and used that team and found team usa isn t favored at this point? team usa isn t favored. they probably shouldn t be the favorite. we have teams like brazil that is not only one of the best teams in the world but has home field advantage. teams like germany, u.s. fans just found out how good germany was in the last game we played. so we re hanging in there. it was great to get out of that group. i think i got about 2% odds