IS OUR PRESENCE CONTRIBUTORY?

Is Our Presence Contributory? Watching sports newscasters on television speculate about our World Champion Kansas City Royals' prospects of repeating their spectacular 2015 feat, this year in 2016, I also somehow wondered whether, and to what extent, the presence or absence of Royals' fans was quantifiably contributory to their chances of future winning? All athletes thank and appreciate their fans, publicly, after victory. Is this mere pro forma courtesy, or is there really something more to it? If so, pulling back from the Royals, a much larger question is whether human presence on this planet is simply pro forma or may be as substantively contributory as well? Such a question stretches, and exercises the mind's elasticity, to be sure, it would seem, since such exercises surely stimulate mental growth, promoting its malleability!