Madden NFL simulation correctly predicts Super Bowl winner again @ Gaming Target

Written by Matt Swider on February 07, 2010

News: EA Sports' Madden NFL 10 on Xbox 360 correctly calls the wild game.

The Saints went marching down the field and EA Sports' annual Madden NFL simulation went six for seven in predicting the Super Bowl winner.

Everyone else was heavily favoring the experienced Indianapolis Colts against the Super Bowl first-timers, The New Orleans Saints. However, Madden NFL 10 saw through the hype and correctly called the upset. The simulation's score was 35-31, while Super Bowl XLIV ended with a close 31-17 in reality.

While EA Sports was able to correctly predict the victor, the particulars of the two games ended up a bit different. In EA's simulation, the game was a shootout between Drew Brees and Peyton Manning. In real life, Manning, in his words, never found his rhythm and the QB struggled in the second half. The simulation did correctly predict a Manning to Joseph Addai TD though.

And proving that truth is stranger than fiction, no simulation would have been able to predict the wild onside kick that started the second half.

EA Sports used the Xbox 360 version of Madden NFL 10 to predict the winner and has been incorrect only once since the simulation's 2004 inception. This year's simulation also correctly foresaw Saints QB Drew Brees receiving MVP honors.