Super Meaningless Super Bowl Predictions

Madden and several other games are used to predict the Superbowl (I like the street fighter one)

"Grab your favorite canned or bottled beverage, mash up a fresh batch of guacamole, don your fanciest team jersey, and get ready for one of the most important sporting events of the year:

Are you ready for some completely unscientific (and possibly fraudulent) probability modeling!?!

The NFL championship is being decided on Sunday in a “throw-ball” contest (as our boss Mr. Juster refers to it as) between the Colts of Indianapolis and the Saints of New Orleans. Like every single other website out there, we put this battle in the hands of Madden NFL 10’s CPU vs. CPU mode to see who will emerge victorious. The final score?

Colts 35, Saints 25

Peyton Manning went 14 for 19 with 270 total yards of passing, while Drew Brees was 15 for 25 with 307 yards in the air. New Orleans had 34 yards of total rushing. Yawn.

However, the game was played with 7-minute quarters, so if we were to use “mathematics” and extrapolate the outcome if real NFL rules were applied, the final score would be more along the lines of:

Colts 74, Saints 53

Considering the explosive offensive capabilities of both teams, this result seems a little more realistic. But like all good scientists, we must be absolutely thorough in our research. Which is why we decided to run the game through a few more simulations. For each simulation, the winner will be granted a point. Whatever team has the most points will assuredly win the game. We here at G4tv.com do not condone gambling in any form, but this article can definitely be used for the purposes of gambling. Let the experiment begin…

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Street Fighter IV (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)

When it comes to gridiron action, there's nothing more representative than a Japanese game in which several costumed martial artists shoot pyrotechnics from their hands. After Sterling and I deliberated over which Street Fighter IV characters represented the teams ("Balrog's a respectable brawler who finally got his due, like Peyton post-Super Bowl XLI"), Brian Leahy walked over and made the following hypotheses:

"The Colts are all about projectiles and devastating aerial combat, but their style isn't very flashy. It's classic and dependable. Therefore, the Colts are Ryu."

"The Saints' offense is crushing, but their defense leaves a lot to be desired. They fight harder to do more damage. That means the Saints are Akuma."

We liked it. After two battles in which Akuma resoundly thrashed Ryu, with Ryu only taking one round of the five played, we present the final battle to you. It speaks for itself, we think:..."
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