It’s Tremendous Bowl week, which implies the sporting information cycle is stuffed with the identical previous shit it’s yearly. Empty interviews, retrospectives on Tremendous Bowls previous, limitless predictions on who’s going to win on Sunday…and one prediction particularly, which comes round each season like clockwork.
I get it, the Tremendous Bowl is the most important recreation of the season, and pundits have two complete weeks of anticipation to construct as much as, so attempting to work out which considered one of two groups will emerge victorious is a straightforward scores pull/pageview generator. Most of these calls are made by women and men making some calculations in their very own head, although; solely Madden tries to do it by way of the artwork of simulation.
As they’ve completed since Tremendous Bowl XXXVIII in 2003, EA Sports activities has run the groups and rosters for the large recreation by its system, performed out a recreation and acquired a outcome. That outcome was a 31-17 win for the Eagles over the Chiefs.
Earlier than you go taking that to the financial institution, although, both since you’re an Eagles fan or you could have a religious perception within the sanctity of Madden’s participant scores and matchday authenticity, it is best to know that for all the eye EA Sports activities likes to lavish on these simulations, and for all the eye paid to them—this yr’s prediction has its personal trailer—the sport’s monitor document isn’t a lot better than flipping a coin.
Since that first public try again in 2003, Madden has efficiently predicted the winner of the sport 11 occasions, that means it’s got it mistaken on eight events (you may try a full rundown of every rating right here). That 11-8 document is over .500, you may say, sufficient to no less than make the playoffs and certainly extra correct than most flesh-based pundits. Particularly when you think about the sport’s Tremendous Bowl XLIX prediction was very correct, nailing not simply the winner however the actual rating as nicely (NE 28 – 24 SEA).
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However in recent times the wheels have fallen off! For the primary decade of its simulations Madden almost at all times acquired the winner proper. For 4 of the final 5 years, although, and 6 of the final 9, its predictions have landed within the L column, that means it merely can’t be trusted to be predicting the winner on Sunday with any extra accuracy than tossing a coin, rolling some cube or asking an octopus to crawl in direction of a flag (really, to be truthful Paul was excellent at his job).
All of which is to say, based mostly on this 31-17 prediction I sit up for seeing the Chiefs win 24-10.