According to a Madden 11 simulation of the 2010 NFL season, the Baltimore Ravens and Green Bay Packers will end up at the top of their conferences.

EA Sports did a simulation of the entire season but did not do the postseason. On the company blog, there's plenty of stats of how the sim went. Perhaps most amazing is that Oakland's Nnamdi Asomugha didn't get in the top 10 in interceptions. Also, Stephen Jackson of St. Louis had monster numbers on a team that went 1-15 last season.

Green Bay not only got the top seed in the NFC but some hardware.

Behind the arm of QB Aaron Rodgers (named MVP and Offensive Player of the Year), the road to Super Bowl XLV in the NFC will go through Lambeau Field as the Packers finished with a 12-4 record, while Baltimore relied on the exceptional play of OLB Terrell Suggs (named Defensive Player of the Year) to secure home-field advantage in the AFC. The Baltimore Ravens and Indianapolis Colts both posted NFL-best records of 13-3, with the Ravens securing home-field advantage due to a better divisional record.

New England, Indianapolis and San Diego won their divisions in 2010, while the upstart New York Jets secured a Wild Card berth in the AFC. After years of being tapped as the next up and coming team, the Houston Texans made the playoffs as a Wild Card team with a 9-7 record, grabbing the sixth seed in the AFC.

The Minnesota Vikings tied for the best record in the NFC with Green Bay at 12-4, but due to the Packers' better divisional record, settled for the fifth seed in the playoffs as a Wild Card team. After seven years without a playoff appearance, the San Francisco 49ers joined the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints as division winners in the NFC, while the Atlanta Falcons secured the final Wild Card spot in the conference.

The tournament organizers for Seasons Beatings confirmed this week Taiwanese player Gamerbee is scheduled to be in attendance for the Ohio tournament next month.

He joins international players Choco Blanka, Yusuke Momochi and Daigo Umehara as some of the out-of-country talent set to take part in the major tournament.

In an interview with the tournament organizers, Gamerbee talked about a wide range of topics, including his chances to win Seasons Beatings, of which Daigo is the defending champ (he won the regular Street Fighter IV tournament).

SB: Daigo has told us he’s confident he would repeat as SF champion at this year’s Season’s Beatings. How do you feel about your chances to win Super SFIV with Justin Wong, Daigo, Momochi, and Choco and the best of North America attending the event?

Gamerbee:  I dare not mention the chance of winning SB because it will make me nervous in the tournament.

I believe there is a chance to win but probably not very strong :)

SB: Do you think you will play Adon the entire SSFIV tournament, or do you plan on surprising your opponents with any characters you’re saving for the tournament?

Gamerbee:  I was thinking about maining another character for different match up. However because I am known by the community because of Adon, I will stick with him, unless there is a really bad match up to force me using other characters.

The rest of the interview can be found on the Seasons Beatings site.

Picture by Kara Leung.

The Couch Warriors tournament series continued this past weekend with the seventh edition, won by Toxy, the previous runner-up.

The stats of the top eight are posted above. Toxy won the tournament with an undefeated record and dropped one game in the three matches played. He faced a Round 3 only twice and took those home.

One of the standouts was Sol T, who got the first combo in 20 of the 29 rounds played (.689), finishing with a .600 win percentage. Naruga, the previous champ, had an .818 first-combo win percentage in the seventh edition.

Toxy also didn't have a comeback victory against anyone in the top eight; that's kind of weird considering that most tournament winners experience it at least once. Then again, it happens at a .169 average, so it's not heavily frequent.

Go here for a guide to the statistics.

Big thanks to Sol (twitter page) for the heads up to the tournament. Videos are here. If you want to check out the previous tournament stats, go here.

The statistics for The Box Arena Team Ranbats tournament series has been updated with Saturday's tournament finale. Anyone that made the Top 8 in a tournament is in the database. Click here to see it.

The stats champion is Long "ShadyK" Tran, who also ended up winning the series title. He was the only person to be in every top eight played. And for all the things he did, arguably the best move he made was picking his teammates.

His win share was .556 when he was in the top eight, and this spans all six tournaments. That means his teammates -- Sannsann and Mike Ross -- seemed to hold up their end of their workload. Actually, Mike Ross did a little bit better of a job. A closer look:

We've all seen those teams where one player wins everything and his or her teammate struggles. ShadyK, for the most part, didn't seem to have to worry about that. Now for the rest of the successful things he did in the tournament series:

• His first-hit win percentage was at .716
  
• His first-combo win percentage was .757.
• He connected on an EX move 103 times, the only player in triple digits.
• He also posted 10 comebacks in the series (which, on a side note, further proves how sick Jason Cole was earlier this month).

ShadyK has been entertaining to watch in this tournament series, except for one match (don't specially remember the opponent) where it took nearly forever to complete and I figured he was channeling his inner Steve Trachsel. But for all he did, his success started before each of the six tournaments began, where he picked the guy to go to battle with.

Picture by Edward Sebastian Jr.

It will be the most unclutch match so far in the Madden 11 season, or one of the more exciting contests out there. Koachk and KeeganBrick competed in a Compete4Ever league match this past weekend. Koachk recently took a bad beating in league play and was trying to bounce back.

The game was back and forth and went into overtime. The first part of the match is below.

The remaining videos are after the jump:

The Couch Warriors tournament series continued this past weekend. Here are the videos of the final eight competitors.

Toxy won the previous event, and he's back in this top eight.

Videos from Couch Warriors.

All of this time, I had jabbed at Keno for being one of the players in the Super Street Fighter IV community to take his time when playing matches. He's above the median when it comes to time spent in a round. Even during the L.A. Riots tournament series, he spent more than 10 seconds on average in a round than the rest of the competitors.

Did I say Keno? I must have meant to say Khio.

From the "Let's hope this doesn't happen again" category, Khio and his teammate, Steinmania, reached the top eight in The Box Arena Team Ranbats 1.6 tournament on Saturday. Unfortunately for them, they lost two consecutive matches and were bounced.

I'm not sure if the announcers picked up on it (I watched it on mute), but I'm wondering what was going through Kiho's mind in the four rounds he played. In all but one of them, he seemed to hold his own and do well against his opponent. It wasn't like he pressed Back on the controller in all four rounds. But man ...

• vs. Repulse, Round 1: Loss, 0 seconds remaining, never led
• vs. Repulse, Round 2: Loss, 0 seconds remaining, led halfway and with 25 percent health remaining
• vs. Genghis, Round 1: Double KO, 4 seconds remaining, trailed halfway and with 25 percent health remaining
• vs. Genghis, Round 2: Loss, 0 seconds remaining, led halfway, trailed with 25 percent health remaining

The average time was 98 seconds per round played for Khio. The next highest was Repulse at 82.25 over four rounds played. I have the tournament average at a shade over 48 seconds.

Usually there will be a player out there that gets a timed out win or loss, and then proceeds to play faster the next round. It must take some sort of mentality to go four consecutive rounds and time out in almost all of them.

Your eyes and my eyes might bleed at what seems to be an overusage of Meta Knight at national events, especially when it gets to the final eight. At MLG Raleigh this past weekend, five of the top eight players used Meta Knight.

Add in a few more tournaments, and Meta Knight usage isn't that overwhelming.

Foxy, a member of Smashboards, has put together a fairly comprehensive spreadsheet showing character usage at the four biggest national tournaments this year; the three MLG events and Apex 2010.

• At the three MLG events and Apex 2010, 15 of the 41 players in the final eight have used characters that resided in the S tier, that's barely a .365 average. Take out Raleigh, and Meta Knight usage was at .333.
• However, in the four major events, 30 of the 41 characters used by players in the final eight have all come from the S or A tiers.
  

Edward Sebastian Jr. put up a picture gallery earlier today of Saturday's The Box Arena team ranbats tournament finale. There's plenty of shots in there of many players, so be sure to check it out.

Also, if you want to see only the matches of the final eight teams, they're available in two parts. Hit the jump for the videos.

Picture by Edward Sebastian Jr.

Ricky Ortiz and Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez won The Box Arena Team Ranbats 1.6 tournament on Saturday, the finale in the series.

Coming all the way from Northern California, the duo defeated Long "ShadyK" Tran and Mike Ross in the title match, holding on after losing in the first championship match.

ShadyK and Mike were competing in the finals for the second consecutive tournament. ShadyK also completed the amazing feat of being in every finals match in the tournament series; he was the only player to make the Top 8 in all of the tournaments as well.

I'l have stats of the tournament tonight. Big thanks to Edward Sebastian Jr. for the bracket image.