Here's the second (and final) part of the Statipstics...
Correct Scores:
Alex and Joe both tipped the Correct Score 8 times in this Tipster (winner Ozren only managed this 7 times). André tipped the Correct Score in just 3 matches.
Correct Margin:
Ozren gained 7 points from 13 matches, while Franz and Tino tipped the correct Margin in 11 games.
Correct Winner:
André tipped the correct Winner with the wrong score (for 5 points) in 22 of 63 matches.
Being Right:
Ozren tipped the right Winner in 37 of the 63 matches, Joris in 36, André in 35, while Ben, Craig and Robert were right in 34 matches. Ozren gained 300 points, while Robert collected only 251 points, showing the advantage of tipping the Correct Score rather than just the correct outcome. Ralph tipped the winner in just 22 games.
Scorer:
The first Scorer was predicted in 12 matches by Christian, Joris and Lee, giving them an accuracy of almost 20%, which is quite impressive. Ralph's accuracy, even allowing for the fewer games he tipped, was just 6%, guessing the first Scorer just 3 times.
Time:
Luck plays a role in the Tipster, and guessing the Time of the first goal is mostly down to luck. Ozren guessed the closest Time in 9 matches, giving him 9% of his points total. Alex guessed the closest Time in 7 matches. Least lucky were Soeren, who only guessed the closest Time once, in the Panama - Tunisia match; and Joris, who actually tried to use data to improve his chances, but only managed to tip the closest Time in the Japan - Senegal game.
There were 11 matches in which somebody tipped the exact Tme of the first goal, with Christian and Joe both achieving this twice.
On average, André's tip was closer to the actual Time than anybody else, less than 20 minutes away from the actual Time. Despite this, he only gained 3 points from two matches. Next best was Ozren, averaging just over 22 minutes. At the other end of the spectrum, Andy was almost 29 minutes away on average.
Tipping:
Five people tipped 100% of the matches: well done to Ben, Christian, Ines, Paul and Robert.
Ralph managed to tip just 50 of the 63 matches.
There were 27 games where everybody tipped. The least-tipped game was Belgium - Panama, where 6 people missed their tips. In total, I received 1067 tips, with 193 (15%) missing.
Points per Tip:
Ozren leads the Tipster, despite missing 4 games (including a couple of games where most people tipped the winner). His average number of points per game where he actually tipped is 5.08. Franz follows with an average of 4.53, with Craig and Mark both averaging 4.27 and Joris 4.24. Ralph averaged 3.42 points per game where he tipped.
With those averages, if Ozren had tipped every game, then in theory he could have accumulated 320 points. Franz would have been 2nd on 285, with Mark and Craig tied in 3rd place on 269, and Joris on 267. Instead, Joris is in 2nd place, and Mark languishes in 15th.
Moral of the story: it's a good idea to submit your tips. Unless your average is a bad as Ralph's. Although if he'd tipped every game, he could be on 215 instead of 171 points.
Comparisons:
Finally, Ozren has achieved the highest ever Tipster score with his 300 points. The winner of Euro 2016, Ines, won with 245 points, but there were just 51 matches at Euro 2016. Ines averaged 4.80 points per game in Euro 2016, while Ozren's average at the 2018 World Cup is 5.08 points. On the other hand, Ines won the 2016 Tipster with 49 points more than Andy in 2nd place, while Ozren won the 2018 Tipster with 34 points more than Joris in 2nd place.
However, comparisons across different tournaments have limited value: Klose won the Golden Boot in the 2006 World Cup with just 5 goals, Ronaldo (the Brazilian one) won with 8 goals in 2002.
And nobody cares. :-)
