Love all the MICRO-analysis. I'd put the goal down to Siggy not having the right tension in the laces of his left training boot three seasons back. Buttefly effect and all that....
Have you been reading too much David Hume or something Barry?
Don't worry the fluctuations aren't random and the quantum foam is consciousness. You see the greatest illusion is that of separation, there is no dualism between mind and matter, there is only mind, no substance only properties. The quantum foam/superstring/god are all one in the same, this is consciousness manifesting itself as the universe in a grand process of introspection in which all possible potentials are realized through the infinite diverging worlds parallel existences.
The goal both is and is not, only by the means of our collective free perception have we witnessed it and only in this spatio-temporal realm has the goal eventuated. All other possible occurrences and outcomes for the game and every other event have been brought into existence in other imperceptible parts of the universe.
Yeah, right!
Hey man if you've got a better explanation for reality that can handle the paradoxes without contradicting itself while being consistent with contemporary physics I'd love to hear it.
Non-dualism is the best explanation for existence/reality I've found thus far and I've been actively looking for four years or so. Of course then I go trying to combine it with string theory... (note: the above is actually what I genuinely believe is the ultimate nature of reality, convoluted as it is thinking about stuff is better than taking the universe at face value from your unreliable sense data.)
Yeah; metaphysics can be a real mindf***!