Talk:Score (sport)

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There is a problem with this article that needs to be addressed. The article asserts that in some sports the team with most number of points wins the contest, such as tennis. Technically tennis is not a good example of this. Tennis is perhaps unusual in its scoring because the person with the most of number of points is not always the person that wins. It is possible to win a tennis match, but still score fewer points overal than the opponent. It is important that a tennis player win the key, points.

Source 1: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-oddity-of-tennis-scoring-makes-its-annual-appearance-at-wimbledon/ Source 2: http://www.tennisabstract.com/blog/2015/09/11/a-new-way-of-looking-at-lottery-matches/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.208.93 (talk) 14:06, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge this article?[edit]

I was thinking - this article has no sources, and I'm not sure it's really appropriate to have some sort of "scores in all sports" list anyway. This seems more like an entry at some future Glossary of sports terms article, and various detail better left to the individual sports themselves would be removed (e.g. the auto-racing section). Thoughts? SnowFire (talk) 19:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think a merge of this article with Score(game) is a good idea. They both cover score as an abstract quantity to represent a player/team's performance, the only distinction between the two is whether it applies to a "sport" or a "game", but honestly I think this distinction is pretty useless. Both sports and games use scores... and there seems to be significant overlap between the two anyway. OilyDoily (talk) 18:52, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]