AI Maddeness Week 17: the AFC East Playoff Race

Now that the vacation is ending and I’ve started to catch up on my AI Maddeness season, I’m moving into what’s been my favorite part of the whole enterprise: the playoff picture! I really love all the possible permutations that can arise when the playoff race gets tight, and if I keep up on conference and division standings for every team (which I have thanks to lessons learned) things get […]

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Sixteen to Go, One More Loss

So once the playoff race becomes part of the AI Maddeness picture, I’m naturally inclined to play more games—which means more previews, game recaps, actual Madden 2001 gameplay, and so on. That’s not exactly the best time management strategy as I try to hit 4,000 posts on the bava in just a week’s time (I have 16 posts to go counting this one). Still, I wanted to play the […]

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AI Maddeness Playoff Picture

One of the funnest parts of AI Maddeness is tryng to create a sense of “hype” around each week. It’s not easy when you’re operating in an AI bubble, so as we come to the final weeks of the regular season the playoff picture is an easy win for creating a sense of purpose. It’s also why the division and conference records being accurate becomes so important. The NFL playoff race is always tight, […]

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AI Maddeness Films

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I finally got around to making a video recap of week 13’s matchup between the NY Jets and the Chicago Bears. It was a special one. [[Curtis Martin]] passed both the single season rushing and touchdown records in the same game. Obviously it’s only possible in the AI Maddenesss universe, but fake can be just as good 🙂 You can read the full game recap with GIFs and […]

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Catching Up with AI Maddeness

November was a blur between Reclaim Open, travel, and work. One of the things that suffered as a result was keeping up with AI Maddeness. Running a fully automated media empire around a season of Madden 2001 is far more manual work than I ever imagined. That said, having an ongoing account of the weekly games and creating a sense of ‘eventness’ as we head into playoff season is starting to pay […]

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AI Maddeness: How (Not) to Blog with AI

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In the spirit of the talk at Reclaim Open, I fed the details of the video summary provided by YouTube’s AI into the game preview GPT I created for AI Maddeness. It wrote a post in the “spirit” of how it breaks down a weekly match-up between two teams, it adjusted fairly well for the subject matter. I love the insistence ChatGPT makes on the […]

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Coming off the AI Maddeness Bye Week

I gave myself a few things to do during the bye week and I’m happy to report I got more than half of them done.

The most pressing issue to address was getting the emulated version of Madden 2001 running on Batocera to stop freezing mid-game. It’s been happening consistently and the best case scenario led to a delay of game penalty, the worst would mean a hard restart of the game all together […]

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AI Maddeness Week 5 Bye the Bye

It’s week five in the world of AI Maddeness, and the Jets are a franchise history-making 4-0 to start the season. As it just so happens, in that other universe 25 years ago the NY Jets also opened 4-0 only to go 9-7 on the season and miss the playoffs. The real 2000-01 season was a heart breaker, but AI Maddeness is where dreams come true.

Week 5 is the Jets bye week, and it couldn’t come soon […]

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Stats and the Intangibles

Many lifetimes ago, when I played Pee Wee football for the Baldwin Bombers, our head coach (Mr. Lamonde) would always talk about the “intangibles” of the game.* A kind of otherworldly sense a player has that you couldn’t really quantify (or even teach). I guess some 10 year olds shine, and some don’t 🙂

I’m still fascinated by this idea, despite being far, far removed from the game—which has […]

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AI Hallucinates Jets Win

While I would like to take the credit for this post title, it came as a response to an AI-generated image I created celebrating the Jets going 3-0 in an alternative universe set 25 years ago, which lives on AI Maddeness. The image showed Vinny Testaverde delivering a pizza with a “W,” the cheese sticking to the box in the shape of the letter. I thought it was pretty awesome.

It is all in […]

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