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Originally Posted by Igottago
In fairness hockey's probably much more difficult to simulate given the number of games, and the fact that playoffs are 7 game series' not one game per round. Still though, 7 out of 8 is pretty good.
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I would think more rounds would make it easier to simulate. The more rounds you have the less chance a random unlikely event has of impacting the final outcome as it will be mitigated over the course several games. Or in other words, in a 7 game series the team that is "better on paper" should have a better chance of winning than in a one game winner-take-all scenario.
I think hockey probably has a larger unpredictability factor to the games themselves. In football you have a play, you execute it, then you reset for the next play. Hockey is much more dynamic -- turnovers happen constantly, penalties (which are unpredictable) probably have a bigger impact on the final result, games are much closer in the playoffs (usually won by a single goal in the playoffs), and other such events. I'm no expert, so I'm just guessing here...