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Techcognition: Super Bowl Winner Revealed! |
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Dr. Samuel Says -
Weirdness
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 23 January 2009 |
Another great example of better living through technology: As they do every year, videogame industry titan EA Sports today announced the winner of the Super Bowl as predicted by their flagship football simulation game, Madden NFL 09. Using each team’s projected roster, and up-to-date player statistics, EA pitted the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Arizona Cardinals in a Super Bowl simulation game. Pittsburgh fans will be happy to hear that the Steelers pulled out the victory by a final score of 28-24, giving the team an unprecedented sixth Super Bowl title, and their second championship in four years.
 For those interested in details and/or side bet wagering, Ben
Roethlisberger threw for 3 touchdowns and was named the Super Bowl MVP,
Hines Ward and Willie Parker each scored a touchdown, and wide receiver
Santonio Holmes scored two. No word on whether EA included an algorithm
to account for Rothlisberger’s yips when the Cardinals’ Karlos “The
Human Eclipse” Dansby crashes through the offensive line.
Anyway, inspired by the news, I decided to try something similar. I’ve
run a recreation of my own life through EA’s popular life-simulation
game, The Sims, and projected the results forward in time. Turns out,
next weekend I’ll be in Prague, fleeing from Interpol with a beautiful
but dangerous Russian expat named Evgenya.
Clearly, this is useful
information to have in advance. I’m off to find my passport. More
updates as events warrant.
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