2010 World Cup Picks

A little late, but here are my picks for the 2010 Group Stage:

A: Mexico, Uruguay
B: Argentina, Nigeria
C: England, USA
D: Serbia, Germany
E: Netherlands, Cameroon
F: Italy, Paraguay
G: Brazil, Portugal
H: Spain, Chile

Final 4: England, Netherlands, Argentina, Spain. Spain over Netherlands in the Final.

Interestingly, I also looked it it based on ELO rating and ESPN (Nate Silver's) SPI rating (50% each). If looking at it that way, the groups would go as follows:

A: Mexico, France (tie)
B: Argentina, S. Korea
C: England, USA
D: Germany, Serbia
E: Netherlands, Denmark
F: Italy, Paraguay
G: Brazil, Portugal
H: Spain, Chile

Only real differences are that I chose Uruguay instead of France (there was hardly any difference among Mexico, France and Uruguay), and I picked 2 African teams (Nigeria and Cameroon) that were relatively close 3rd place teams in the group according to the numbers.