As a quant-turned-sports-analyst raised in Brooklyn with chess sets and vinyl records, I saw the numbers before the crowd did. 62,149 attendees at Hard Rock Stadium wasn’t just a statistic—it was a predictive signal. This game was the third-most-attended of eight knockout matches, yet it outperformed lower-seed fixtures by margins only a model could predict. The capacity curve tells a story: full houses aren’t accidents—they’re algorithms in motion. Here’s how discipline beats probability.