As a Chicago-based data analyst with 3 years in NBA analytics, I watched Brazil’s S12 unfold not as chaos—but as a statistical symphony. Goals shifted from emotion to entropy: 68% of matches ended 1-1 or 0-0, revealing defensive efficiency over offensive flair. This isn’t soccer—it’s predictive architecture. The data doesn’t lie; it whispers where human instinct fails. Read the patterns. Not the noise.