Are results pre-determined before a ball is kicked?

[July Fourth]

A server can handle thousands of teams and matches in a day, Look at football manager on your PC.

I installed Football Manager 2013 and left it to run on holiday simulating about 32 english league seasons in a day.

Premier League = 380 matches a season
Championship = 557 matches a season
League 1 = 557 matches a season
League 2 = 557 matches a season
Conference = 557 matches a season
Conference North = 557 matches a season
Conference South = 557 matches a season

Champions League Inc Qualifying Stages = 223 matches a season
Europa League Inc Qualifying Stages = 456 Matches a season

League Cup = 93 matches a season
FA Cup Including qualifiers = 757 matches a season
FA Trophy = 265 matches a season
Johnstones Paint Trophy = 49 matches a season

Total (not including friendlies/reserve matches) 5,565 matches a season.

5,565 x 32 = 178,080 matches

World Cup (including qualifiers) = 912 matches x 8 world cups for 32 years
The Euros (including qualifiers) = 279 matches x 8 euros for 32 years

Add about another 10,000 or so matches, and if you throw in friendlies my computer would of calculated at least 250,000 matches in a day.

I think a Top Eleven server can handle simulation of football matches very easily.

Not forgetting the number of new players and transfers the game had to generate while this was ongoing.

If I decided to run Championship Manager 01/02 for a whole day, the number of simulated matches would easily be over a million on my computer and this would be an engine that would be more comparable to Top Eleven than football manager 2013.