Hard to think of another sport where the score contains so little information about what happened in the game. About the only thing I feel I can conclude from this is that Russia is probably better than Saudi Arabia.
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Not sure how a 84-89 basketball score or a 4-3 baseball score are any different
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I don’t understand baseball
Basketball the numbers give you a sense of the intensity of action
American football you can even guess the score progression roughly due to odd scoring increments (6, +1, 3)
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My main enjoyment is mentally stimulating what the citizens of each country probably felt about the outcome based on my knowledge of their shared history and culture
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Actually, Russian team played better this particular time and in this particular place. Final score in american football, in my view, contains as much information. Same goes for baseball or basketball. Even a blowout doesn't mean that one team is that much better than the other.
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that's way soccer is way more engaging. bc games are so unpredictable. it's very chaotic in the sense that at a micro level, results diverge, but at macro level they converge (v few and always the same teams have won the WC)





