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  "competition": "fifa_world_cup_fantasy",
  "round": 6,
  "article": "efficiency",
  "title": "Best value — points per million — Round 6",
  "generated_at": "2026-07-08T00:31:14.645167+00:00",
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  "methodology": "Market odds (de-vigged) → Dixon-Coles scorelines → 50k Monte-Carlo simulations, scored on the official FIFA World Cup Fantasy points table.",
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    {
      "name": "Oyarzabal",
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    {
      "name": "Yassine 'Bono' Bounou",
      "team": "Morocco",
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  "source": "https://evmax.ai",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "license_text": "CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution to evmax (https://evmax.ai)"
}