I think there's just too much luck. With basketball or American football, any team can still beat any other team on any given day, and the Celtics made it to th

I think there's just too much luck. With basketball or American football, any team can still beat any other team on any given day, and the Celtics made it to the finals instead of Orlando or Cleveland, but LA still won the championship (but still needed 7 games to do it). It's a good blend of giving you hope for your small-market team, but also making wins actually mean something. I watched all the US games in the World Cup this year, and I never came away thinking that the US was actually better (or as good, yay ties!) as the teams they played. And, in fact, they seemed to be the better team against Ghana.