EA Madden 25 Predicts Who Will Win the Super Bowl

Madden NFL 25 Simulation Declares Broncos Victory 31-28

So apparently, Electronic Arts can predict the Super Bowl. They have been correct 8 of the last 10 times, so that has to be worth something. Every year, EA runs a simulation of the game on its current Madden game; this year should be exciting as the results came out to the Seattle Seahawks winning in overtime by a field goal. EA predicted the Baltimore Ravens would win last year, and indeed they even started big and held onto the lead as predicted over the San Francisco 49ers.

Not the only Super Bowl prediction

Now even though EA has a great track record, they are not the popular majority. “A computer simulation run 50,000 times by Prediction Machine’s Predictalator has the Seahawks emerging victorious, beating the Broncos by a score of 24-21” Source

Paul Bessire, the man behind the Prediction Machine, stated:

“Since Week 2 of the NFL season, the Predictalator’s projected Super Bowl every week was Denver vs. Seattle. To add to that, both of these teams were more than 50 percent likely to make the Super Bowl for all but two weeks in that stretch as well, a feat rarely seen by any team in any week before the playoffs started in the last decade (let alone two teams consistently),”

Do you trust a computer?

Why not? Computer simulations have accurately predicted many things, and are used in a number of professions. It is interesting to see how well artificial minds can guess the outcome of events, and predicting the Super Bowl brings the technology closer to the public eye. Either way, one of these simulations will have guessed correctly, but will the outcome of events be the same as predicted? The Super Bowl is in a few days, and I am proud to say that I will be more interested in the turnout of these computer simulations (and the food) than the actual game…sorry sports fans. What are you doing here anyways?

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