The Wall Street Journal did the math on which teams have spent the most time writhing in pain.


Source: SB Nation

Surprised to see America so high and Italy so low.

Maybe they included Dempsey's broken nose which chewed up a fair bit of time and unfortunately for him was an actual injury.

Divers and floppers. Here's another article on that.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/our-2014-fifa-world-cup-in-brazil-sookometer-is-your-definitive-guide-to-footballs-worst-sooks/story-fnkjl6g2-1226967472066

France = Champions.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-world-rankings-of-flopping-1403660175

I was surprised to see Portugal so low. Clearly Ronaldo and Nani aren't up to their usual antics.

And now they're flying home.

-PB

Ronaldo was getting airborn one way or another.

Netherlands had a lot more than that.

Although interesting, definitely noticeable that the successful teams did more diving than the unsuccessful ones (as you would expect in order to protect leads) so hard to draw any real conclusions from this other than that diving/simulation happens and is an issue.