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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
One thing I will never understand is why people - well, Americans, anyway - equate the level of excitement of a sport with how often points are scored.
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I can only speak to hockey, but I will say that frequently the higher scoring games are the more exciting for the reason that (in hockey at least) those games are more action-packed. More goals are scored in a 4 on 4 situation than 5 on 5 because there is constant action. So I would say that it's not the number of goals, its the action that determines the excitement. And the consequence of an action-packed game is a higher score.
This may only be true of hockey. It is not true of basketball, where a high score is somewhat a function of the fact that there is no goaltender, and not the amount of action in a game.
I don't watch soccer much, but I think the problem is not the low scores, but the fact that the games are decided by penalty kicks.
