Over the years I have developed an irritation toward sports where the scoring is basically random. I cite soccer and hockey as examples. Sometimes basketball. Lately, I like sports where you can manufacture scores by running an offense. In basketball, you can manufacture opportunity with a pick and roll, or posting up the big man, or doing a variety of things to draw a double team and dishing to the open man that the double team came off of. This doesnt always work, because not all teams have a player that consistently draws a double team. But still. Baseball also has a variety of strategies for manufacturing offense, And football goes without saying. It sort of baffles me that with a century of world wide effort, soccer has yet to devise anything similar. The best it has is the corner kick. The skills of the players are not the issue. I have seen amazing athleticism in the world cup.It just seems like we should have figured out by now how to clear the box to give scorers a strike, for instance. Baseball also has a large degree of random scoring, but it attempts to correct for this by playing a shitload of games, so that randomness is smooth out, statistically. I dont think soccer does that. Basketball copes with its randomness also by playing a lot of games, and (like baseball) using a multi-game playoff scheme so that teams have to win a majority in a series of games. The Spurs dismantling the Heat in 5 games of a 7 game series adds a lot of credibility to their title - that winning one game wouldnt. Since football is more geared to running an offense for scoring, its less troubling that its playoffs are simpler. Ill concede that the world cup makes an effort to correct for randomness by using a point system instead of a straight elimination deal. ~End Rant~
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:52:06 +0000
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