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

[winnipegger]

If you haven't watched the game, and haven't checked the result, but the game has concluded, is the outcome determined?

 

[Nogatco Rd]

for the butterfly ripple to make it to the arena it would take a lot things lining up just right.

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.

Shit… I think this is what happened to Heiskanen

 

[gary559]

Is OP Robin Lehner?

 

[Marioesque]

How do we know?

We don't

 

[Mike C]

If you haven't watched the game, and haven't checked the result, but the game has concluded, is the outcome determined?

Of course not!

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Finally some philosophy here.

If our viewing changed the observed reality, then we would be the source of that reality

Be careful! Taking that path leads to solipsism, extreme form of subjective idealism.

 

[Leafblooded]

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.

Underrated comment

 

[Crow]

Nothing is real.

And nothing to get hung about.

 

[Avs2022]

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?

So, true story as a 49ers and Avs fan.

1. Stop watching the NFC championship when Detroit was up by 17 points. Started playing Call of Duty, checking score on phone occasionally. Turned game back on with 8min left in 4th quarter. 49ers win.

2. Stop watching divisional round game when Green Bay was up against 49ers. Turned game back on with 4min left in 4th. 49ers win.

3. Refuse to watch the Avs play any game in the first period since they sleep walk and don't show up until the 2nd period. They win more often then they lose the last 4 years.

I have no idea what any of this means.

In all seriousness , I do think it matters. If no one showed up at Ball Arena, the players wouldn’t know when to SHOOT! the puck.

Or, just maybe, Makar would shoot more instead of passing to Mackinnon all the time.