I take the point but it isn't the same event entirely; yes it involves the same players (except on those occasions where I changed them beforehand), with the same mental frailties, form, etc. And yes the initial tactics would have been the same, at least most of the time.
But a game is surely...
In real life or in FM?
If you mean in real life that's absurd - you're essentially claiming that every game of football you've ever watched, or will ever watch, was/will be won by the team with the superior players and tactics. That leaves absolutely no room for chance, or flashes of genius...
Wow, that's quite a leap.
I completely accept the point about the odds lowering during a long sequence; I should have said the odds of tossing 30 heads in a row _right now_ are about a billion to one.
But, again, I'm not saying that BECAUSE the odds of tossing a coin X times is Y THEREFORE the...
I mentioned coin tossing only to point out to people saying "Oh, 42 times doesn't seem very unlikely" that a 50:50 event happening 42 times in a row is in fact extraordinarily unlikely. If you tossed a coin every second for 30 years, you'd have tossed about a billion coins. And, for context, the...
Ha.
Full disclosure - tried it again a while ago; won (on penalties) on the sixth attempt this time. Didn't do anything except go on holiday.
So it seems it was possible to win the game, just incredibly unlikely.
And safe in that knowledge, I'm going back to the original, morale-crushing...
Well, I was on holiday. It was in the hands of my assistant. But my point really is that the game WAS different every time. Sometimes 4-0. Sometimes 2-1. Sometimes 3-2. Sometimes 2-0.
Once it was 7-0. Once - only once - there was a penalty shootout after a 5-5 draw.
The only thing that never...
To answer the question of whether I did the same thing each time:
Most times just left it entirely to the assistant by going on holiday and not setting any preferences. The results were different each time (ie Chelsea won by different scores each time).
A few times near the end I set...
Yeah but here's the thing. 42 times is an awful lot of times for the same outcome every single time.
As an example, the odds of tossing a coin and getting heads 20 times in a row is one million to one.
The odds of tossing a coin and getting heads 30 times in a row is a billion to one.
So...
Okay, so I'm managing Derby County and in 2018 we're currently (somehow) top of the Premiership with a few games to go. Hit a slightly dodgy patch of form, unlikely to win it, but have got a lot of decent young players and it's not exactly a fluke.
So we're playing Chelsea in the League Cup...