Los Angeles Tops Cincinnati On Fourth Quarter TD In Strat-O-Matic Simulation of Championship

Stafford Outduels Burrow in 27-20 Win; Akers Score Breaks Tie as Market Leader in Simulations Plays Out Final Football Game of Season

GLEN HEAD, N.Y., February 7, 2022—Matthew Stafford passed for 281 yards on 26-of-31 completions and two TDs and Cam Akers scored the go-ahead touchdown on a five-yard run with 8:26 left in the game as Los Angeles defeated Cincinnati, 27-20, in a simulation of this Sunday’s season-ending football contest by Strat-O-Matic (@StratOMatic), the market leader in sports simulation. Akers’ winning score capped an 11-play, 94-yard L.A. drive, and Cincinnati’s final possession ended with 0:22 left on a fourth-down sack by Aaron Donald.

With his team trailing, 17-13, early in the third quarter, Stafford engineered a 14-play, 75-yard drive that consumed almost six minutes, ending in a 3-yard scoring pass to Odell Beckham to give Los Angeles the lead. After a second Evan McPherson field goal tied the game with 0:16 left in the third, Cincinnati could not take advantage of a Jessie Bates interception on the next play, eventually punting to the Los Angeles 6 yard line, leading to the eventual winning drive.

The last two Cincinnati possessions ended on downs, including the Donald sack at the Cincinnati 15 closing the contest.

Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow completed 20-of-45 passes for 197 yards and a touchdown, while teammate Joe Mixon rushed for 106 yards on 16 carries to lead all runners. Sony Michel (15 carries, 54 yards) and Akers (12 rushes, 52 yards) shared the load on the ground for Los Angeles. 

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Strat-O-Matic was invented by 11-year-old Hal Richman in his bedroom in Great Neck, N.Y. in 1948 as a result of his frustration with the statistical randomness of other baseball board games. He discovered that the statistical predictability of dice would give his game the realism he craved. Over the next decade, he perfected the game at summer camp and then as a student at Bucknell University. After producing All-Star sets in 1961 and ‘62, he parlayed a $5,000 loan from his father (and made a deal that if it didn’t work out he would work for his father’s insurance company) into the original 1962 Strat-O-Matic Baseball season game. Needless to say, Hal never had to take a job with his father.

Strat-O-Matic, based in Glen Head, NY and on the Internet at www.strat-o-matic.com, manufactures the top selling sports board games and realism/stats sports digital games. The Company publishes baseball, football, basketball and hockey games to play both on and off your computer and mobile screens. “Strat-O” games are known throughout the sports community for their statistical realism and accuracy. The Company has the world’s greatest sports game stat libraries with top-of-the-line seasons dating back to the early 1900’s. At the start of the 2016 MLB season, Strat-O-Matic introduced Baseball Daily, its first product featuring digital player cards that update every day to reflect real life current player performance as the season progresses.

The Company has a loyal celebrity following including a bevy of sports broadcasters such as Bob Costas, Jon Miller and Dan Shulman, former MLB’ers Keith Hernandez, Doug Glanville and Cal Ripken Jr., and sports super fans including Drew Carey, Ben Bernanke, Bryant Gumbel, Spike Lee and Tim Robbins. More information is available at: www.strat-o-matic.com

Los Angeles 13          0           7             7          –           27

Cincinnati     7           7          6              0          –          20

Qtr Clock Team Scoring Description(Extra Point) Score

1 11:26 Cin J.Mixon 12 yd. run (E.McPherson kick) 7-0 CNA

1 7:33 L.A. C.Akers 2 yd. run (kick failed) 7-6 CNA

1 1:58 L.A. C.Kupp 30 yd. pass from M.Stafford (M.Gay kick) 13-7 LAN

2 0:22 Cin J.Chase 32 pass from J.Burrow (McPherson kick) 14-13 CNA

3 12:14 Cin E.McPherson 36 yd. field goal 17-13 CNA

3 6:29 L.A. O.Beckham 3 yd. pass from Stafford (M.Gay kick) 20-17 LAN

3 0:16 Cin. E.McPherson 33 yd. field goal 20-20 LAN

4 8:26 L.A. C.Akers 5 yd. run (M.Gay kick) 27-20 LAN