What I don't understand, I know all soccer rules aren't the same so bare with me. But, in the world cup they didn't start out by playing sudden death and both teams scored and the game still ended in a tie...like what the One of the main reasons I hate soccer lol way tooo many ties. No offense to anyone who likes soccer though.
Not sure why you think they play differently. All soccer is essentially the same. One of two options. League & Pool play rules (winner not required) or tournament play (winner reqd: OT followed by penalty shoot-out).
WC plays Pool-play round 1 (multiple games) followed by tournament round 2 through the final.
Leagues are essentially doing pool play on a larger scale so there is no need for winners until the tournament/playoff rounds.
Tournaments that are not played on a neutral-site are generally played in an away-home format (2 games same teams). League championships generally fall in this group, ie not at neutral sites (WC or EC are at neutral sites). First game of this format can tie; second one cannot result in an overall tie (when you aggragate the 2 games). So better team gets the 2nd game at home as that is an advantage (to know what you need to avoid OT or a loss).
FOR WCs/ECs:
In the first round or POOL PLAY round; you play everyone in your bracket ONCE and there does not have to be a winner. For the standings in bracket you get 3pts/win & 1 pt/tie. Overall pts is 1st tie-breaker, then goes to H-H & Goal differential, etc etc.
So, in that round, SYSTEMICALLY, they dont NEED to have teams play only for a win-loss and wear guys out - get folks hurt needlessly. Over the course of 3-5 games (however big the bracket is 4-6 teams); it will sort itself out and tie-breakers will work.
They only play OT and penalty shoot-outs when it is SYSTEMICALLY REQUIRED. i.e. in a 'single elimination round' when You are only playing ONE GAME and you have to have a SINGLE WINNER.
{GOD I explained all that and
I THINK soccer is WATCHING PAINT DRY half the time.}
By the nature of football (US) we more generally need a single-elimination winner because you dont play that many games for the law of averages to bring the best teams to the top. Also JUST by the nature of the possibility of a larger # of points being scored 2/3/7 vs 1 at each opportunity; the chances of a tie are naturally much smaller.
SO, at the end of the day the chances of ties are so much smaller by nature in NFL that I don't mind if we have a few.
the absolute
WORST THING anyone could do to football {IMHO} would be to institute something horrible like the soccer/hockey penalty shootout. The college system of spot the ball on the 10/20/wherever for each team is
NOT PREFERABLE. Play a couple of ties through the course of an 16 {edit} game season and it adds some weird permutations to the playoff seedings calculations that makes all the boards jump with guys trying to figure it out.
current rules are good. eliminates most injustices.
