Hmm... I never thought of it that way. That sports are a weighted random number generator,but the various weights are unknown. And the commentators are discussing theories as to what the weights are, and how derived. (Although the cartoon seems to be saying the narratives are just about the numbers generated, which is more cynical, and frankly less interesting).
They take the coded sports results, and automatically generate narratives using statistical speech models. They have a startup that is doing it too, don't recall the name of it....
