Has there been a WC Final better? This one has my vote for sure, it literally had everything you could ever want.
As said earlier, this referee was really good, no complains IMO and I'm grateful he was not an issue.

ARG dominated the entire first half. FRA stage a comeback in the 2nd half when ARG looked tired as fuck.
2 goals in EXTRA TIME with a 2nd comeback from FRA followed by penalties. What more could anyone ask for in a final?

Mbappe's 2nd goal was just pure skill, perfect timing and technique. Not to mention fucking clutch to tie the game in the 81st minute! Only 23 years old and just incredible talent, he was so strong for the whole tournament and gets the Golden Boot.

Messi was incredible for the entire fucking game and involved heavily in every goal. Dude is the GOAT and it might not be a debate anymore with this trophy. His vision on the field is like what we saw with Wayne Gretzky. Messi just sees things that others cannot like this goal. Its not a teachable talent, either you have it or you don't.

The person I really feel bad for is FRA - Randal Kolo Muani. Dude has the World Cup on his foot @122:00 and cannot bury it. Can't take anything away from the save since the goalie was in the right spot but there was lot of net to shoot at. I can't imagine what he is feeling right now, he will be seeing that in his sleep for a long time.

Easily the best day of matches so far in the tourney. Both matches were so fucking good.

Will France vs England live up to the hype?? Does Morocco have another miracle in them??
Will Ronaldo be benched again??

Going to be fun to watch and just hope we get another set of great games tomorrow.

Jesus Christ! I can't believe these goals today to tie the games! GO NETHERLANDS!

Neymar and Messi going home on the same flight

GOOD FUCKING BYE BRASIL

TIE GAME!!!! FUCKING GO CROATIA!!!!!! HUGE

It damn sure was in Quake 1 Team Fortress

Change the Tie Break Rules.

Make Head to Head results more important than RW%. Reference Post #418 and beyond in this thread

It is situational of course. There are more situations/scenarios like this where it would be reverse which is why I used the words "generally speaking".

IMO there are only 3 positions that have a clear front runner and everyone else is fighting for 2nd place. There are a lot of great players to compare but these 3 proved to be far above anyone in their respective roles.

Medic -- Shade
Demo - Habib
F. Scout - Clockwork

As for the other classes:

Soldiers -- ROFL good luck with this one. There are at least 10-20 solid choices from NA, EU and AU
P. Scout -- probably b4nny but once again there are a hell of a lot of other solid choices that did the "pocket scout" role amazingly and can make cases I suppose

Effectiveness will vary depending on division / skill level

Generally Speaking:

Invite and Advanced: I would say shotty more effective overall than gunboats for defending last only. Dmg potential > jumping around. In any other situation, mobility is always going to be superior. (some soldiers can make this work but not many I'd say)

Main and below: Shotgun "should" be superior in mostly every situation due to teams being slower and much less coordinated. Most Main matches involve a lot of chaos fights where a shotgun would be ideal after you use all 4 rockets.
I said "should by superior" because for shotgun to work you need to have good aim. If you are in Main and below you likely don't have the required aim to make shotgun effective in the first place or you would be in advanced.

Bench Ronaldo.....replacement gets Hat Trick..................team scores 6................................

Just to preface, I'm not arguing with you but I can clearly see where we differ on this subject.

In your quotes above you seem to value and want to be "better to predict" which team is better based off of RW% even though you realize the stat is skewed and can be wrong for many reasons.

I don't want to "predict" who is better. The Wins and Losses clearly do that and is not a skewed stat between teams of equal records. Simply put, you either win or lose when it matters and that should be rewarded.

Reason for a loss means nothing, everyone has a reason / excuse why they lost. Rewarding teams for getting meaningless RW% against poor teams should never be the top reason for a tiebreak. IMO you devalue the actual match wins by making other metrics more important and you can influence other factors.

Frankly, there is more incentive for teams to pick KOTH maps or to pick maps that are more defensive oriented knowing they can "salvage" their RW% when they know they cannot win the match. I would rather lose 0-4 on a KOTH map than 0-5 on a CP map or I would pick a defensive stalemate map like Snakewater and see if we can park busses and drag out a 0-3 loss or something like that. As poster #429 said, this type of rule is counter productive to making teams push for wins and play more offensively.

I appreciate the post and the stats but I don't quite understand some of this.

What is the single thing that can happen to ruin a H2H result?

No offense, but none of your stats or analysis seem to address the scheduling conflicts with some teams playing strong opponents early in the season and getting "free" 5-0 results. That weak team then dies and the other teams in the division are denied that same free 5-0.

We all know neither method is perfect and nobody is saying to remove RW% completely, it is very much needed and should continually be refined. I am saying H2H should be first and RW% secondary. Wins and Losses should ALWAYS be treated with more priority than rounds.

USA was just outclassed today IMO. We were good and had huge possession but NED never abandoned the defensive strategy and had very few holes. Really well designed strategy and executed solidly. A few breakdowns but overall NED were good and both transition goals were really nice. 3rd NED goal was just a blown coverage from our back line.

USA team badly lacks finishers. I love this team and how we are progressing. We are young, fast and have a solid team going forward but unless we can find some true finishers we will always remain outside the "elite" of the world.

I still think if Pulisic gets that first goal early the whole game would have been so much different for us. Instead of chasing everything for most of the game we could have calmed the attack down a little. How the fuck was that missed, he had the whole left side of the net to shoot. I spilled my coffee all over myself this morning when that happened.

Canada were the CONCACAF champions this last season