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Friday Fun Thread for September 29, 2023

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American Football, and ice hockey seem equally if not more complex. The players are more tightly packed together in American football, and there is more of a meta of "everyone rush towards the ball". And hockey plays physics and velocities a lot more.

Basketball is probably comparable. I think the three-d space is a bit more used in basketball, but there are fewer players. And the ability to use your hands adds variables to positioning.

There are also plenty of recreational type sports that seem more complex to me. Airsoft or paintball can easily get fiendishly complex. Knowing your teammates, enemies, and all of their firing trajectories, as well as possibly ammo or gun jam situations. If soccer is Chess, then paintball is Chinese checkers. You'll need an extra decade or two of moors law to beat humans at it.