tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post6601683419968515020..comments2024-03-29T03:16:05.261-04:00Comments on Start Making Sense: Competitive imbalanceDaniel Shavirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710628584922961682noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post-25285407521302506512010-06-24T22:36:25.960-04:002010-06-24T22:36:25.960-04:00You could walk away from sex for an hour and be pr...You could walk away from sex for an hour and be pretty sure that nothing had changed, but does that make it any less interesting?michael a. livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00326884778751867521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post-80516017619920093912010-06-24T21:11:48.399-04:002010-06-24T21:11:48.399-04:00One theory of why soccer (and ice hockey) might be...One theory of why soccer (and ice hockey) might be uninteresting to some, while, say, a 0-0 tie late in a baseball game is interesting, builds off one of your points. It's not just that nothing happens, but that it seems, to the unschooled eye at least, that it is not that hard for one side to ensure that nothing happens. (Of course that may not be true in reality.) In baseball, in a 0-0 game, you are constantly watching difficult execution - pitching and fielding - succeeding. In soccer, it isn't just that it's so hard to score; it's that it seems relatively easy to make sure the other side doesn't score.DM Hasenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906053538352645850noreply@blogger.com