World Cup 2026dev

Restart Lab

Find the highest-value way to take a corner or a free kick.

Restart Lab plays a set piece out thousands of times in a physics engine, scores every chance it creates with a real-data expected-goals model, then searches for the routine that works best against a specific defence. It is an analyst's console, built around the 2026 World Cup.

How it works

SimulateRK4physics

Play the set piece out

A deterministic engine flies the ball with real spin, drag and bounce, moves every attacker and defender, and resolves the delivery into a shot, a clearance or a scramble.

MeasurerealxG model

Score it with real xG

Each simulated chance is graded by an expected-goals model trained on real World Cup and Euros data, and reported with confidence intervals so noise never reads as a result.

Optimisevs randombenchmark

Search for the best routine

An optimizer tunes the delivery, the runs and the timing across thousands of trials. Any routine it proposes has to beat random search before it counts as a finding.