Ninetales

in fairness, 7 game series involve a lot of randomness too, just less so than the one game playoffs. it always amuses me that sports fans in general have such a ridiculous inability to acknowledge the role luck plays in individual games.

Chula Vista

In most cases the best team is going to win, but ya, there's times where a ridiculous play or two will turn things upside down.

Last week's SB came down to an absolutely great defensive play. The DB recognized the play before the ball was even snapped. He broke on it and got to the ball before the receiver did. And the other DB didn't allow the pick to happen. Plus the QB made a bad pass. Don't throw it out in front like that.

Watch #21 break on the pass. Great play.



Edit: This breaks it down even better.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Ninetales

depends on how you define "best" but most sports (basketball being an exception) have scoring based off rare events so luck plays a huge role in any singular game.