YumiYumi_1988
My wife doesn't know I'm a perv!
It has nothing to do with the sport, it's the country. In the USA we list the home team second because it is The Away Team at The Home Team. Even in soccer, we list the home team second. Meanwhile, basketball games in Europe I believe list the home team first, while in the USA it's the away team first which proves it depends on the region of the world, not the sport.
Other differences here in America are saying 'Tie' instead of 'Draw'. A tie here is a draw, but in Europe it means a match-up. We also list team's records (this one I don't understand) as Wins-Losses-Ties rather than Wins-Draws-Losses. Here, as in places such as Australia and a select few countries in Europe, championships are determined by a playoff, sharply reducing the importance of the season. We utilize entry drafts instead of youth academies, and most sports have a salary cap which restricts spending by each team. Players are not sold between clubs, instead they are traded for each other, which the English would refer to as a 'swap deal'. Baseball, unlike Japan, plays extra innings to avoid ties. Soccer here also used to play all games to a penalty shootout if it remained tied so as to avoid draws. Americans are not to fond of any game in any sport that does not result in a determined winner.
Other differences here in America are saying 'Tie' instead of 'Draw'. A tie here is a draw, but in Europe it means a match-up. We also list team's records (this one I don't understand) as Wins-Losses-Ties rather than Wins-Draws-Losses. Here, as in places such as Australia and a select few countries in Europe, championships are determined by a playoff, sharply reducing the importance of the season. We utilize entry drafts instead of youth academies, and most sports have a salary cap which restricts spending by each team. Players are not sold between clubs, instead they are traded for each other, which the English would refer to as a 'swap deal'. Baseball, unlike Japan, plays extra innings to avoid ties. Soccer here also used to play all games to a penalty shootout if it remained tied so as to avoid draws. Americans are not to fond of any game in any sport that does not result in a determined winner.