COG Writes: "We joke and laugh about it. We think it’s completely ridiculous but don’t kid yourself. There is a dark cloud looming over Madden NFL 16′s cover athlete everywhere he goes this year and there is nothing we can do about it."
Electronic Arts has used its Madden NFL franchise to simulate the winner of each Super Bowl every year since 2004. This year, Madden NFL 17 predicts the Patriots will beat the Falcons with a score of 27-24.
Now, a CPU vs. CPU game is not the most scientific way to place bets on a team, but the series’ predictions have been proven more correct than wrong. Starting with Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004, let’s look back at every prediction to see how accurate of a sim Madden truly is.
The decision-based criteria the CPU would be driven by true NFL metrics. Mostly, highly paid QBs restructure salaries, so the feature would focus primarily on them, but there are also players who are asked to take pay cuts.
The NFL is a game or context, timing, and luck. That said, there are 5 NFL greats throughout history that thing stand above the rest, and here they are
Lets be real here, some of these duds should have never made the cover. How did Hillis ever make the cover?
This just in....football in the NFL is a hyper violent, collision filled catastrophe with big men moving at high velocity trying to render one another unconscious....people are going to get hurt. Curse my arse. I love football, by the way. And Formula 1.
Megatron had something to say about the whole madden curse thing
The last Madden cover athlete made it to the Super Bowl.
sherman had a bad year?