The Dream to End All Dreams: World Cup Soccer

Solitaire Statistical Replay game on World Football, it permits to replay in less than an hour any final edition of the most important soccer competition in the world, from 1930 to 2010.

Rules and flow of play are simple, but accurate.

To play match, each team simply compares his attack value versus opponent defence value. Then, each player rolls three dice to see how many goals he scores.

There are several data that have been used to rate the various teams for each edition of the World Cup, and an element of randomness has been added, to give much flavor to the replay of the tournaments.

Simply put, you compares the Attack rating of one team against the Defence rating of the opponent and viceversa, to get the number of goals scored by each team.
You may complete an entire tournament in less than an hour, but you don't have much chrome: simply the result.

A separate expansion set contains 23 different competitions taken from UEFA Eurocup (from 1980 onward), Copa America (from 1989 onward) and Africa Cup of Nations (from 2000 onward).

Another separate expansion set contains data for Champions League (from 1991 onward) and UEFA Cup/Europa League (from 2004 onward) for a total of 25 tournaments.