Can Data Measure Football Excitement? Ranking FIFA World Cup 2026 Matches with Python When fans remember a great football match, they usually think about unforgettable goals, dramatic comebacks and emotional moments. But from a Sports Analytics perspective, another question appears. Can we measure how exciting a football match was using only data? In this project I analyzed the FIFA World Cup 2026 using Python , Pandas and Matplotlib to create a simple metric called Excitement Score . Dataset The analysis uses the Football World Cup 2026 Dataset from Kaggle containing: Match events Expected Goals (xG) Possession Shots Shots on target Big Chances Player information Momentum Dataset: Football World Cup 2026 Dataset Building the Excitement Score Goals alone do not tell the whole story. I combined multiple offensive statistics into a simple metric. Excitement Score = Shots + (Big Chances × 2) + (Goals × 3) The weights are intentionally simple and ...