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

[Nogatco Rd]

This guy almost got the SWAT team called on him for watching a Lightning playoff game a few years ago.

Not hard to imagine how that interaction could have gone poorly for the young man, which certainly would have cast a pall over the rest of the series for TBL. thereby possibly affecting the outcome.

 

[blundluntman]

Sure does. Mackinnon knows better than underperforming when I’m in the building

 

[NyQuil]

I'm one of those people who moves locations around the house between periods if they are losing and won't move if they are winning.

It's stupid as hell but I still do it.

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

I'm one of those people who moves locations around the house between periods if they are losing and won't move if they are winning.

It's stupid as hell but I still do it.

So for example, your team goes up a goal and you decided to take a bathroom break at the intermission. Do you occupy the bathroom for the duration of the game?

 

[NyQuil]

So for example, your team goes up a goal and you decided to take a bathroom break at the intermission. Do you occupy the bathroom for the duration of the game?

I choose not to answer that question on the basis that it may incriminate me.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Quality thread.

July in December

 

[behemolari]

of course it does

 

[MCB]

I want whatever the op was on when this was posted.

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Following holographic principle any phenomenon and/or structure and/or process existing in X dimensional space manifold is fully encoded to the surface of that space with dimension count X-1.

HFBoards is 2D phenomenon on a screen, but it encodes 3D on ice hockey phenomenon perfectly.

Q.E.D.

 

[Canadiens Ghost]

NO! And here is another shocker, the Earth is not flat.

 

[SensontheRush]

The Observer Effect would suggest that the act of observing a phenomenon changes how it behaves.

So, technically, yes.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Dippin’ into the eggnog early, eh OP???

 

[wetcoast]

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 sharing because it sounds like you have some mind blowing stuff right now.

The Observer Effect would suggest that the act of observing a phenomenon changes how it behaves.

So, technically, yes.

OP didn't indicate live viewing and most people here are taking it as a broadcast viewer right?

 

[SEALBound]

Chaos theory and the butterfly effect. Watching or not watching on TV, the convergence rate is so minimal that, no, it would not have an impact.

 

[hurdemz]

Based thread

YOU'RE a base head!

 

[Bruce Granville]

It‘s the butterfly effect and, obviously, effects the goalies the most.

 

[666]

No.

You’re not on the ice.

The only way that you can affect the game is by betting so that the refs will get the result that makes them the most.