My extended family has a betting thing on the sportsball thingy. For science I participate but with my scores randomized. I believe I’m in the top three so far in this part.
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I’m pretty sure soccer results are 95% chance. A good lesson for game designers. Soccer is almost always uncertain to the end. Many of my failed board game designs have been failures mostly because of anticlimactic end games.
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Replying to @carnalizer
Sometimes I see design discussions where people say adapting soccer to a boardgame is tricky because so much of it seems to come down to the ball movement and a random outcome on kicks. Hard to make that compelling for a whole 1v1 game.
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First of all, I'd never make a game about a game. That's just annoying. :) I think my point is more that it's important to avoid anticlimactic endings.
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I would, and I have! :D But I agree, and I'd say most sports I know have anticlimatic endings because the teams are evenly matched, you can tell the ending from a mile away. That's why people have viewing parties or watch it at sports bars - because there's other stuff to do!
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You could say that this factor explains why soccer is the more popular sport to watch in many places, don't you think?
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Ha! I'm inclined to agree. In some places (like Portugal) it's just so culturally ubiquitous that there is no available attention for other sports. People go hang out watching games from teams they don't care about.
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