I’m not looking for “soccer is the only sport to end in a tie” answers. I’m asking WHY, through the gameplay or tactics is soccer much more likely to end in tie compared to other professional sports?
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Mostly because the scores are lower. It’s just probability.
In a huge majority of soccer games, both teams only have 0,1,2, or 3 goals. You should *expect* that two teams are going to have the same number fairly often when **there’s only like 4 possible outcomes for each team’s score**.
Compare with basketball: Teams commonly score as low as about 85 and as high as 125. That’s 40 outcomes per team, so the odds of both teams getting the exact same score is rare. And ties (at the end of regulation time) are indeed rare in basketball.
Compare with baseball: Teams typically score anywhere from about 1-10. Ten possible scores for each team. So you’d expect more ties in baseball (after 9 innings) than in basketball, but less ties in baseball than in soccer. And again that’s exactly what happens.
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