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Originally Posted by Reed
I once read that the more games a sport has in a season, the less important each individual game becomes. They were trying to explain why individual regular season games in football are more important/interesting than NBA and NBA games are more interesting than MLB games.
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Having fewer games increases the randomness and magnifies the effect of injuries. The Super Bowl winner is far less likely to be the best team in the league than the World Series winner or the NBA Finals winner.