Tired of gambling your money away on your own "professional" picks for upcoming sporting events?Then look no further than...video games?
Yes, gamespot.com posted a story on their news blog announcing to the world that the San Jose Sharks will be the 2008 Stanly Cup champions!!!
But, how do they know?
Enter: NHL 08 from our friends at EA Sports.
Apparently, EA ran the Stanly Cup playoff schedule through a simulation on their NHL 08 title which showed San Jose and Montreal in the finals with the Sharks winning it out in seven games.
Based on the ultra-sophisticated nature of next-generation artificial intelligence and hardware this simulation should be accurate, correct?
(Buzzing noise, wrong)
I don't know if it was just me, but I seem to remember a certain New England football team being a heavy favorite to win the Super Bowl in all simulations of EA's Madden 08....Whoops.
I realize this is all in good fun, but it serves as a reminder that video games cannot always predict the future and may not be an entirely reliable bet when it comes complex and random nature of human interaction and - in this case - sports.
Nevertheless, who knows. Anything can happen in the realm of sports and maybe EA will be exactly correct.
In that case, I might be picking up a few more copies of EA's Rugby title and taking a trip to Europe.
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