WCPWorld Cup Pulse
WCPTHE WORLD’S FAN PULSE

How your anonymous pulse is used

World Cup Pulse is an independent fan-research project. You tap a few questions about how you feel during the tournament. That’s it — no name, no email, no login.

Why does this exist?

Football generates oceans of opinion and almost no structured, public record of how fans actually feel — match by match, country by country — about fairness and the decisions that shape a tournament. World Cup Pulse is building exactly that: one of the largest public, anonymous fan-sentiment datasets of the 2026 World Cup. It’s created by PriorLex to study fan behavior in the open — not to sell your data.

How the indices are computed (v1.0)

Fan Confidence Index v1.0 — a 0–100 score per fan-country from four primitives: mood (initial affect, 40%), trust in the team’s coach & federation (25%), whether outcomes feel deserved (20%), and perceived risk of unfair harm, inverted (15%).

Referee Trust Index v1.0 — a 0–100 score of trust in refereeing and VAR as an institution, per fan-country: trust in the referees/VAR for their matches (50%), whether decisions are applied equally across countries (30%), and trust in the sport’s governing structures (20%). It never names or ranks individual referees. Both indices are versioned (v1.0); if weights ever change the version increments and the change is logged. Both indices appear only once a scope reaches 20+ pulses.

Independent fan research platform. Not affiliated with FIFA.

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