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Originally Posted by kcchief19
To end my novel, tennis is struggling with the next generation but it has nothing to do with scoring. Yeah, tennis is scoring is odd but not so much as football. Why not streamline football scoring by eliminating field goals and just give teams one point for a TD?
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Well, to get back to this original topic, that's not quite an equivalent analogy. That would be altering the game of football, eliminating a portion of the game and greatly changing strategy. With tennis I think the point was that the score could be related in a simpler way, so that someone watching it for the first time on TV might be able to guess what it meant. It's not a big deal, but for someone like me who only very occasionally watches it, it would mean being able to pay more attention to the game, and less to scrunching my forehead and trying to figure out how they're scoring it.