Science: Secret of Soccer's Appeal Revealed

Society | January 6, 2006, Friday // 00:00

American scientists say they have proved soccer to be the most exciting of all sports.

The reason is soccer's element of surprise, according to researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US.

The team reviewed five sports - ice hockey, football, baseball and basketball in the US, and English football, and analysed results from more than 300,000 games played over the past century, the BBC said.

Soccer has proved to have the highest "upset frequency," followed by baseball, hockey, and basketball.

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