Who’s playing in SB LX? Who wins?

I’m trying to come up with an explanation for this - it doesn’t look like it’s an issue with the operation, so I lean towards this being intentional. In theory you’re reducing the amount of possessions in a game this way, but doesn’t that increase variance, in turn favoring the worse team?

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world: