It used to be pretty easy to predict who would win the Ballon d'Or. You could just grab a coin, label heads as "Lionel Messi[1]" and tails as "Cristiano Ronaldo[2]," and flip your coin.
Ideally it would be a slightly weighted coin in favor of the Messi...
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