Hardcore Gamer: It’s a new year, and like every year since 1988, the annual football game juggernaut, Madden NFL has another iteration to play out on the grid iron. Following the “usual” naming convention, this one is titled Madden NFL 16. Highly criticized for being just another 60-dollar roster-update, the team at EA Sports does work hard to add new features every year, and this year at E3 we were given a chance to see what the team spent their time working on since the release of its predecessor.
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
