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...ue to difference in skill could be large or small, but the top teams will often be fairly evenly matched. The same rule applies in football, but turnovers are more common there. In baseball, on the other hand, scoring opportunities often arise in clumps due to the incremental nature of pushing baserunners around the bases (as well as more subtle factors like pitcher fatigue) so lopsidedly varying scores (often swinging back and forth even in a short series between the same teams) are quite common. All of this lies in the burgeoning field of sports statistics which now has its own ASA section...