Is football like baseball or basketball as far as player opportunities?

[FootballManager89]

In baseball for instance no matter how talented the players on your team are you get the same amount of opportunities each game. In basketball the better your teammates are the less opportunities you get. So where does Football fall?

[Svenc]

Very tough to compare.

Baseball is basically a sports where you have set play after a set play so it speaks to reason that the opportunities for players to "score" points levels. They're taking turns, more or less.

Basketball similar to Handball and other team sports where a) there isn't much distance between both team's goals / baskets and b) the ball is easier to control, most attacks aren't intercepted before a team can apply a finish. Which is also the core reason why results tend to be fairly leveled in comparison, and naturally, the actual "points" in football are very few and far in between. The number of attacks are more level between teams in Basketball. In football not only can the number of attacks / attempts between both teams be wildly apart, matches are also settled in key seconds, which means out of these sports, it has the highest amount of "underdog" wins, even with sides several divisions apart; in other words, luck plays a much bigger role. Even if a side is thoroughly outplayed, that is a team parks in the other team's half 90 minutes (doesn't happen in Handball or Basketball), one lucky strike can seal the deal. In a way, Basketball or Handball are more about which attack doesn't result into a point, the percentages of attacks that don't result into one makes the winner. In football, it's the other way around.

Also, as football requires players to cover a far bigger pitch, there are players who never much get attempts simply by the position they employ on the field. Others do plenty more. More proactive / attacking teams tend to get more attempts. That doesn't mean the team with the most attempts is the more talented though. That's some of my uneducated musings anyway.
 

[FootballManager89]

3 hours ago, Svenc said:

Very tough to compare.

Baseball is basically a sports where you have set play after a set play so it speaks to reason that the opportunities for players to "score" points levels. They're taking turns, more or less.

Basketball similar to Handball and other team sports where a) there isn't much distance between both team's goals / baskets and b) the ball is easier to control, most attacks aren't intercepted before a team can apply a finish. Which is also the core reason why results tend to be fairly leveled in comparison, and naturally, the actual "points" in football are very few and far in between. The number of attacks are more level between teams in Basketball. In football not only can the number of attacks / attempts between both teams be wildly apart, matches are also settled in key seconds, which means out of these sports, it has the highest amount of "underdog" wins, even with sides several divisions apart; in other words, luck plays a much bigger role. Even if a side is thoroughly outplayed, that is a team parks in the other team's half 90 minutes (doesn't happen in Handball or Basketball), one lucky strike can seal the deal. In a way, Basketball or Handball are more about which attack doesn't result into a point, the percentages of attacks that don't result into one makes the winner. In football, it's the other way around.

Also, as football requires players to cover a far bigger pitch, there are players who never much get attempts simply by the position they employ on the field. Others do plenty more. More proactive / attacking teams tend to get more attempts. That doesn't mean the team with the most attempts is the more talented though. That's some of my uneducated musings anyway.
 

Alright so it seems in football having better players around you leads to higher production where as in basketball its the opposite?

[Spurs08]

15 hours ago, FootballManager89 said:

Alright so it seems in football having better players around you leads to higher production where as in basketball its the opposite?

Absolutely. The worse team in a match can occasionally not even have a single decent opportunity to score: this can even be used as a strategy, concentrating 100% on defending to try and get a 0-0 draw. Meanwhile, the better team can have 20 or 30 chances. Chance creation is probably the most important factor in being successful, far more so than your ability to actually convert chances into goals by scoring.