Can watching (or not watching) games impact the result?

[onmygameboi]

The answer is so obviously "no" that the correct answer must be "yes".

Wait. Am I tripping on acid right now?

 

[DitchMarner]

If I don’t see you, you don’t exist!

That goes for your team.

Some modern thinkers literally believe this.

They think that people create reality rather than interpreting it.

It kind of goes back to Descartes' "I think; therefore, I am." Your thinking tells you that you exist. Who's the say the rest of the world does?

Realistically, my brain is hooked up to some sort of simulator operated by a combination of Habs and Bruins fans who live in a higher reality and can't get enough of seeing me suffer through years and years of seeing the Leafs fall short of winning the Cup.

 

[KovalchukFistPump]

13 year old me would say yes, but adult me realizes sports are entertainment and that's it. Although turning off Game 7 in 2001 only led to one goal scores for us.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

We live trite meaningless lives.

Speak for yourself, I do one-armed pullups and grow palm trees.

 

[smytty]

No

However I believe the actions of anyone in the stadium can have a Hugh impact on the game with the butterfly effect.
For example, If I do something as small as buying a beer, then maybe I make someone else have to wait a minute extra in line, which makes that person late to get to their seat, which makes the goalie happen to notice that person's jersey as they go to their seats, which makes the goalie stand an inch further to the left, which effects the next shot on goal bounce into the net instead of off the post.

It's plausible that something like you not watching a game can influence a game, but for the butterfly ripple to make it to the arena it would take a lot things lining up just right.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Some modern thinkers literally believe this.

They think that people create reality rather than interpreting it.

It kind of goes back to Descartes' "I think; therefore, I am." Your thinking tells you that you exist. Who's the say the rest of the world does?

Realistically, my brain is hooked up to some sort of simulator operated by a combination of Habs and Bruins fans who live in a higher reality and can't get enough of seeing me suffer through years and years of seeing the Leafs fall short of winning the Cup.

That's a hyperbolic interpretation of that lineage of modern thinkers. It makes for good sci-fi, but the question they were addressing was more certainty, an epistemological issue, than existence, an ontological one. You can read it that way which is fun, more prominent in Berkeley.

 

[D Wakaluk]

Of course it does. There's a hungamazillion of little jinxes and spells going on per game.

At the moment hockey scientists and priests are baffled by the ultimate jinx shield the Buffalo cult has summoned

 

[Ossific]

Can you watch 100 games and then also not watch 100 games and let me know what the numbers are? Science!

 

[HaNotsri]

You should test this by not changing your underwear for a year and see if the Sabres makes the playofffs!

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Yes it does. Everytime I turn to a game the scum, team scores.

 

[Video Nasty]

Absolutely. It’s Kshahdoo’s world and we’re just living in it.

 

[D Wakaluk]

Forgot to add; I hate the announcer jinx and the let-the-meaningless-interview-go-on-forever-during-game-unti-someone-scores jinx.

These two are way too powerful and overused

 

[Ratsreign]

Only in the playoffs

 

[Jumptheshark]

I mean, imagine your team is losing at the start of the 3rd, and you think about, should you start (or stop) watching the game.

As far as I understand, worlds where you watching and not watching the game are different. But are they different enough to impact the game and change the result?

Are you asking a team may win or lose because people are watching or not watching?

They do not care about how many people are watching from bars or their homes

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Are you asking a team may win or lose because people are watching or not watching?

They do not care about how many people are watching from bars or their homes

Blasphemy!!!!

 

[ORRFForever]

GREATEST THREAD EVER !!!!!

Well done, OP. @Kshahdoo

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I have always felt, if I do not watch Canada in BIG games, they will win.

Schrodinger's Hockey Game?

That's what crossed my mind.

 

[dr robbie]

Only if I'm wearing my lucky jersey.

 

[Paper]

This thread pisses me off because of the movie "The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart because in the movie he can go back in time where they clearly establish that going back in time changes the future, ie. the name, but in one scene he is prison and goes back in time as a kid and stabs himself in his hands performing a pseudo-stigmata on himself but when he goes to the present he is still in prison where nothing changes except now he has marks on his hand like Jesus but it breaks the entire rules set out in the universe as everything would have changed such as him being put in a some type of institution as a child and shouldn't be back in prison:

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

Superstition is crazy.

Our existence is completely sane.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

I mean, imagine your team is losing at the start of the 3rd, and you think about, should you start (or stop) watching the game.

As far as I understand, worlds where you watching and not watching the game are different. But are they different enough to impact the game and change the result?

You are either 12 year old me or current me on mushrooms. Stop it.

 

[Paper]

Theoretically infant worlds exist

Infant worlds like Muppet Babies

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Our existence is completely sane.

To quote a Texas poetaster, it ain't any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.

 

[onmygameboi]

Wait. I already commented "no", but I'm changing my answer to "yes".

During nationally televised games, there's the added media attention and the knowledge that a large swath of the hockey community is likely tuning in.

So, yes for that reason.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

I wore the same underwear for a week and a half and after the Leafs loss tonight I realized, it's time for a change.

I have fresh undies on (I'm being honest and serious here)

Will it affect my day tomorrow in a positive way? I just don't know these answers.

There's only one way to find out!

 

[Master P]

Nope, but if your team is doing well in the playoffs and you move the volume slider slightly while watching a game, it could sink your season.