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What on Earth is the point of all this? Yes, there is a random element to soccer. No, the outcome is not purely random. The fact that there is a random componen
by cwyers 12y ago
What on Earth is the point of all this? Yes, there is a random element to soccer. No, the outcome is not purely random. The fact that there is a random component to the outcome does NOT mean that "the attention devoted to the World Cup is founded on flimsy numerology and might even be called a tremendous waste of time and money." And to the opening question, "is soccer anything more than Poisson noise?" Of COURSE it is.
- yaeger 12y ago>Of COURSE it is. Yes, it is boring to watch. As outlined in contrast to other sports. Even a minute before a random goal happens, the audience has no idea it is about to happen. It is just a random back and forth across the field. With a lot of resets as he puts it. Compared with Football where you slowly advance to the opponents side and the audience knows when a goal becomes a possibility. People say soccer didn't catch on in the US because you can't easily put commercials in it. I disagree. You could neatly fit entire infomercials in there and when you cut back to the action, chances are very high that the score is still the same as when they left things. Also the double standard of being cool with games ending in a tie like a riveting 0-0 and on the other hand, at certain occasions, having to have a shootout to determine a winner is more than weird. They could have saved themselves 90 minutes by going to the shootout right away.