From Shyly Amarasinghe
You list the most exciting games, defined as those that most often have unexpected outcomes, as soccer followed by baseball, hockey, basketball and American football (7 January, p 13). With the exception of the final two, these are the sports with the lowest scores at the end of the game.
Could it simply be that in lower-scoring games there is a greater chance of a statistical outlier (or, in sport-speak, an underdog), coming out ahead? When the typical expected score is 2-3 it takes only one point to get a tie. In a high-scoring game there is more opportunity for the score to correct itself.
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