Statipstics - part i

Here are some Tipster statistics ("statipstics") for the curious or bored...

Of the 51 matches completed during Euro 2020...

Correct Score:
The Correct Score was tipped in 29 matches. At 57%, this equals the success rate from the 2018 World Cup.
The most successful match was England - Denmark, with 7 people correctly tipping 2:1 for England. In the 2018 World Cup, Denmark were also involved in one of the two most correctly tipped matches.

Correct Margin:
The Correct Margin was tipped in 27 matches (53%, much lower than in 2018's 67%). Nine people correctly tipped Belgium to beat Portugal by one goal, the most correct Margins in one match.

Correct Outcome:
There were 5 matches where nobody tipped the correct Outcome: Poland - Slovakia, Sweden - Ukraine, France - Switzerland, Germany - Hungary, and Hungary - France.
There were a further 6 games where only one person tipped the correct Outcome (on two occasions that person was Ozren).
The matches with the most correct tips were Italy - Switzerland and Italy - Austria, with 17 people correctly predicting Italian victories.

First Scorer:
The correct First Scorer was tipped in 28 matches. The most popular correct choice was the Ukraine - North Macedonia game, in which 10 out of 19 people tipped Yarmolenko to score first. This contrasts with the 2018 World Cup, in which 18 of 19 participants correctly tipped Salah to score first for Egypt against Saudi Arabia (the only person who didn't tip Salah was Ralph, who forgot to tip that match).

Points:
The games which yielded the most points were Ukraine - Macedonia and Netherlands - Austria, with a total of 131 points being scored in each match.
There were no games in which no points were scored, and only 3 games in which just 3 points (for the closest Time) were scored.
Despite this, Euro 2020 yielded an average of 65 points per match, 7 short of the average in 2018.

Goals:
A total of 53 goals were tipped for Italy - Switzerland (42 of them for Italy), as well as 53 for Belgium - Portugal (31 for Belgium).
The greatest delta was in the France - Switerland match, with a total of 41 goals tipped for France and just 2 for Switzerland. That game also had the fewest goals tipped for one team in this tournamet. It ended, however, with Switzerland beating France on penalties.
The smallest delta was in the Wales - Switzerland game, with 14 goals tipped for Wales, and 15 tipped for Switzerland.

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