The site uses a database of stats in all the different major sports to allow you to build your own teams and play them in leagues against other spouse-less sports addicts.
Right up our alley. If we can’t watch real football, simulating fake outcomes is a decent substitute.
Putting together your own teams and ilaying in leagues is a pay service, but the site offers free simulated games between any NFL team in history.
Want to see how the 1948 Chicago Cardinals might fare against the 1979 New York Jets? Go ahead! (Jets 12, Cardinals 10, Scott Dierking player of the game). The possibilities are pretty much endless.
Each simulation comes with full individual and team stats and even play-by-play to break down afterward.
The results of our 101 games were about what you might think based off the teams’ regular-season showings – 89 Patriot wins, 12 Giant wins.
The biggest Giant win was by 12 points, with 10 of the 12 wins by a TD or less.
In almost all of the New York wins, running back Brandon Jacobs was the MVP – in one of the wins, New York had 300+ yards rushing, which seems fairly unlikely.
In fact, the Giants almost always had 100 and frequently 200 yards rushing … yet only won 12 percent of the time. That’s pretty unlikely in a real game, to say the least.
There were several oddities that popped up among the 101 games, putting a dent in our virtual reality. Patriots fullback Heath Evans had a 69-yard run, kicker Stephen Gostkowski had more than one 57+ yard field goal, and Giants TE Kevin Boss somehow managed not one but two touchdown runs on reverses.
And the play by play feature is cool, but sim-Tom Coughlin would frequently call back-to-back plays down 14 with 4:00 left in the fourth quarter.
Improbable stuff.
Then again, who could have guessed that linemen Logan Mankins AND Jeff Saturday would both score TDs in the 2006 AFC title game between New England and Indy.
Here are all 101 results, with the MVP listed.
Tom Brady won the award in well over 50 percent of the simulations, but some underdogs slipped in there as well – none bigger than Giants’ defensive tackle Fred Robbins, who was a deserving winner in Sim No. 97 after his three sacks keyed a 17-12 win for New York.
Now that’s fake football at its best.
Patriots 51, Giants 6: MVP Tom Brady (18-24, 377 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT)
Patriots 33, Giants 11. MVP: Tom Brady (20-30, 289 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT)
Patriots 48, Giants 6: MVP: Tom Brady (31-40, 447 yards, 5 TD, 0 INT)
Patriots 38, Giants 21: MVP: Laurence Maroney (102 yards, 3 TDs)
Patriots 17, Giants 7: MVP: Tom Brady (22-30, 246, 1 TD, 0 INT)
Patriots 24, Giants 6: MVP: Mike Vrabel (10 tackles, 3 sacks)
Patriots 29, Giants 10: MVP Tom Brady (25-34, 309, 1 0)
Patriots 45, Giants 20: MVP Asante Samuel (2 INTs for TD)
Patriots 48, Giants 13: MVP Wes Welker (8-166, 3 TDs)
Patriots 27, Giants 20: MVP Tom Brady (25-37-301-2-0)
(Patriots scored on the final drive to win)
Patriots 27, Giants 13: MVP Brady (19-30-189-2-0)
Patriots 22, Giants 13: MVP Randy Moss 6-105, TD
Patriots 17, Giants 10: MVP Randy Moss 6-73, 2 TD
Patriots 20, Giants 10: MVP Asante Samuel (2 INTs)
Patriots 42, Giants 7: MVP Tom Brady 25-31, 395-4-1
Patriots 34, Giants 31 (OT): Tom Brady 34-47-404-3-0
(Gostkowski kicks a 56-yarder as time expires to force OT, hits game winner)
Patriots 24, Giants 18: MVP: Brady 23-32-362-3-0
Patriots 21, Giants 6: MVP Randy Moss 5-125-2
Giants 17, Patriots 14 (OT): MVP Brandon Jacobs 22-153
(Giants score with 50 seconds left, win on opening drive of OT)
Patriots 28, Giants 13: Tom Brady 14-22-220-3-1
Patriots 30, Giants 15: Brady 22-34-289-2-1
Patriots 39, Giants 20: Brady 23-36-333-4-0
Patriots 35, Giants 30: Brady 24-33-242-3-0
Patriots 37, Giants 10: Brady 19-29-316-3-0
Patriots 44, Giants 17: Brady 24-34-340-4-0
Patriots 15, Giants 9: Moss 5-71-1
Patriots 16, Giants 6: Brady 18-26-268-2-2
Patriots 42, Giants 13: Brady 15-20-252-4-0
Giants 35, Patriots 23: Brandon Jacobs 18-131-2
(Giants dominate, Pats settle for 3 FGs, Giants score on all five)
Giants 27, Patriots 20: Jacobs 22-223-3
Patriots 12, Giants 6: Vrabel 6 tackles, 2 sacks
Patriots 42, Giants 34: Brady 17-23-242-5-2
Giants 30, Patriots 28: Jacobs 19-165-1
(2 pt conversion to tie Faulk draw stopped short)
Patriots 26, Giants 7: MVP Donte Stallworth 4-81, 13 yard TD on a reverse
Patriots 44, Giants 22: Moss 7-126-2
Patriots 23, Giants 17 (OT): Brady 24-36, 298-2-0
Patriots 27, Giants 10: Brady 24-29-289-3-0
Patriots 40, Giants 14: Brady 26-38-312-2-0
Patriots 34, Giants 6: Brady 24-31-377-3-1
Patriots 27, Giants 9: MVP Ellis Hobbs 7 tackles, 1 INT
Patriots 41, Giants 14: Brady 20-32, 256-2-0
Patriots 29, Giants 24: Randy Moss 6-175-3
Patriots 31, Giants 10: Brady 20-29-245-4-0
Patriots 42, Giants 23: Brady 20-28-307-6-0
Patriots 28, Giants 27: Brady 22-29-266-3-2
Giants 24, Patriots 17: Brandon Jacobs 120 yards from scrimmage, 2 TDs
(Giants 248 yards rushing)
Giants 13, Patriots 10: Justin Tuck, 10 tackles, 3 sacks
Patriots 49, Giants 21: Brady 29-42-383-5-0
Patriots 26, Giants 6: Brady 18-25-302-2-0
Patriots 48, Giants 10: Brady 31-39-371-4-0
Patriots 27, Giants 10: MVP Junior Seau 7 tackles, 1 sack, 1 INT
Patriots 19, Giants 14: Laurence Maroney, 102 yards from scrimmage
Patriots 26, Giants 7: Brady 18-28-226-2-0
Giants 24, Patriots 13: MVP Eli Manning 18-27-214-2-0
(Giants 208 yards rushing)
Patriots 31, Giants 17: Brady 23-31-304-4-0
Patriots 34, Giants 16: Moss 6-71-2
Patriots 38, Giants 27: Brady 23-30-254-4-0
Patriots 31, Giants 16: Kevin Faulk 94 yards from scrimmage, 3 TDs
Patriots 24, Giants 19: MVP Samuel 2 INTs, ends NY’s end-of-game drive
(Giants 204 yards rushing)
Patriots 48, Giants 17: Brady 28-35-350-4-0
Patriots 38, Giants 24: Brady 23-29-317-2-0
Patriots 22, Giants 16: Brady 23-29-249-0-0
(Giants 232 yards rushing)
Patriots 20, Giants 17: Brady 20-29-318-2-1
Patriots 37, Giants 17: Brady 19-27-332-4-0
Patriots 31, Giants 6: Brady 21-28-344-4-0
Patriots 41, Giants 3: Brady 30-44-434-5-0
Giants 21, Patriots 18: MVP Justin Tuck (3 sacks)
Patriots 31, Giants 28: Brady 25-38-321-2-0
(Giants 260 yards rushing)
Patriots 22, Giants 21: Brady 21-34-285-2-0
Patriots 51, Giants 14: Brady 28-36-338-3-0
Patriots 17, Giants 7: Brady 17-31-228-2-0
Patriots 41, Giants 13: Brady 30-40-395-3-2
Patriots 38, Giants 3: Brady 31-46-366-4-1
Patriots 37, Giants 30: Brady 23-27-366-4-0
Patriots 31, Giants 20: Brady 25-33-308-3-0
Patriots 31, Giants 10: Brady 25-32-389-3-1
Patriots 27, Giants 24: Brady 26-33-328-3-0
(Pats score 17 points in final 7:15 to win)
Patriots 31, Giants 17: Brady 28-35-323-4-1
Giants 9, Patriots 3: MVP Kawika Mitchell (5 tackles, 2 INTs)
Patriots 23, Giants 17: Brady 21-31-233-1-0
Patriots 17, Giants 2: Brady 24-31-278-2-1
Giants 30, Patriots 24 (OT): Jacobs 21-114-2 TDs
(Giants 192 yards rushing)
Patriots 30, Giants 14: Brady 25-40-304-3-1
Patriots 26, Giants 6: Brady 28-41-337-2-0
Patriots 24, Giants 21: Moss 6-141-2
Patriots 45, Giants 0: Brady 26-34-350-3-0
Giants 38, Patriots 34: Jacobs 19-211-3
(Giants 304 yards rushing)
Patriots 38, Giants 23: Brady 23-34-328-4-0
(Giants 264 yards rushing)
Patriots 52, Giants 13: Brady 35-46-476-7-2
Patriots 38, Giants 7: Maroney 15-173-2
Patriots 35, Giants 17: Brady 21-26-321-5-2
Patriots 24, Giants 21 (OT): Welker 8-131-1
Patriots 37, Giants 14: Brady 28-45-336-2-0
Patriots 34, Giants 13: Brady 30-37-383-1-1
Patriots 38, Giants 24: Brady 23-30-333-3-0
Patriots 35, Giants 21: Brady 28-41-365-1-0
Patriots 35, Giants 16: Brady 24-34-317-3-0
Giants 17, Patriots 12: MVP Fred Robbins (7 tackles, 3 sacks)
Patriots 20, Giants 16: Brady 27-41-365-1-1
Patriots 31, Giants 10: Brady 21-29-269-3-1
Patriots 38, Giants 24: Brady 30-41-428-4-0
