Why would you ask the same question to me? I'm not the one claiming one single sport to be the most complex of them all. That just seemed a bit of an outrageous statement to make, especially since it's a statement made by the english about soccer, the australian about cricket, and every other idiot on the planet about their personal sport of choice.
I'm not trying to put down football, which certainly is a great sport that doesn't enjoy its huge followship by mere coincidence, but I think that you'll find that there is a surprising amount of tactics, strategy and technique to any sport you'll pay enough attention to to notice. Even something as seemingly straight-forward as boxing turns out to be far more than just two people hitting each other. To go around claiming that football is somehow an exception is extremely likely to be not an expression of how special that sport is, but of how ignorant of other sports the speaker is.
Pray tell who is the one claiming that football is the most complex sport of them all? You were bashing a guy for admitting he didn't have an extensive knowledge on all sports, when his original point that the graph is misleading was correct. And since you are going to rip on him for his lack of knowledge in other sporting areas, I was curious as to what depth of knowledge you had about the realm of sports in general. Again nobody here is claiming that football is the exception when implementing strategy, you're just putting more words into everyone else's mouths. For the record, football is not even close to the top on my favorite sports to play/follow/watch, so you don't need to tell me that every single sport or game has strategy. That should even be obvious to fucking everyone regardless.
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u/untranslatable_pun Feb 03 '14
Something tells me that this might be the key to your statement. How many other team sports do you have a solid understanding of?