re: How can you have a sport where it can end in a tie?

I actually like ties in the regular season. The whole purpose of the regular season is to determine who makes the playoffs and seeding. Each game is kind of like 1/16 of the whole game. It's really not imperative that each game have a winner. Ties actually serve, as much of an oxymoron as it sounds, as a tiebreaker in the NFL, given teams often finish in that 9-7/10-6 range, and there's no one-game playoff like in baseball.