One of the thing I have been doing regularly for each game I play is having ChatGPT write-up a preview post based on the two teams stats, which include player stats, overall team stats, and any prior match-ups. I grab a series of screenshots from the Madden 2001 interface* and upload them to ChatGPT. After that it reads and organizes the images into columns of team stats and player stats. I then link to any previous posts that reference earlier games, etc. This is the first preview that integrates the playoff race into the post, and it really helps ramp up the narrative.
Four weeks from the postseason, the AFC picture is sharpening, and suddenly every snap feels heavier. The New York Jets sit at 11–1, owners of the conference’s top seed, riding a season defined by bruising physicality, ground-dominance, and a borderline impenetrable defense. The Colts, meanwhile, enter at 8–4, carrying the AFC’s third-best record but stuck in the same division as the Jets—meaning their postseason fate is far more complicated than their record suggests.
On paper, this is a regular-season matchup.
In reality?
It looks and feels like January football.These teams already shared the field once. The Jets won. But only just.
Without retelling the Week 11 clash, here’s what matters heading into Sunday: both teams left that night convinced they can beat the other. And now the rematch arrives with playoff leverage hanging in the balance.
Read the whole thing over on AI Maddeness if you are a glutton for AI Punishment.
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*I’m running the game (emulated through Batocera on a Raspberry Pi 4) through OBS so I can grab screenshots on my computer.
