If Winning isn't everything, why do they Keep the Score?

Hi all,

'Winning is not everything'. But it is surely a lot of things. History remembers winners while the runner-ups are, more often than not, relegated to the category of 'also-rans'. No doubt, playing with your heart is by itself its biggest reward, but winning is like a STAMP OF AUTHORITY on your performance.

Now, coming to the habit of keeping scores-it can be best defined as a method of indirect motivation. On witnessing oneself falling behind the opponent in the scoreboard, the adrenaline kicks in and player is inspired to put the last ounce of his energy in the game.

Thus, in conclusion, winning may definitely not be everything, but score serves a bigger purpose- it reminds you that the game is still on.

Hello guys. I am shankul.

I really want to say this to all of you. Why we all are considering game as cricket, any other sport or School /College exam. Our whole life is a game in itself. And we might not get whatever we want in life, there could be our different wishes we try to have them but if we didn't get, this doesn't mean we stop trying. We came to know at every step where we lag behind. It is not the matter of winning or losing at all. Neither winning or losing make us stronger or weaker. It is just the weakness of ours we came to know at every step and correct them. It is our competition with our own. No one else.

So for me there is no term like winning or losing for me.
It is just improvement of our own.
It is just the scores we get at every step we makeup with our Mistakes.

Thanks.

Hi every one. I am Shashi. In my opinion in this competitive world we need scores to differentiate between two or more teams. If anyone play with enthusiasm and spirit he will certainly win the game. In every aspect of life we need scores go ahead. One more important thing it's your score which defines you that what you are not look or personality. Scores tell others that how consistent you are. If any person or team win any match by cheating or luck it's their score in their past matches put them on backfoot.

Let me start with definition of Score!. Score is that value/figures that is given to a person or a team based on its performance in a given field or work. This score signifies how good or bad he is. It could be either GDP of a country, runs scored by a player, etc these help to determine how well he is been in his field of work, which in turn defines his dedication towards work.

Winning is that moment that is achieved when a person/team performs good, which in turn is dependent on scores.

Yes, Winning is not everything, but having scores will appreciate the player/team/country to boost themselves into being good at what they do. In this process if they fail to get a good score, scores help them to know where the undermine is, and they work on it to improve it. Which will certainly help them to improve their score in next term and might help them to win a match.

Bottomline, Scores help us in determining how well we are at a given work and gives us a chance to work on it, to build ourselves and win in our life if not in the game.

Hello everyone, its a very nice topic which we are talking about. Winning is not important. Participate is more important than winning and competition is more important than participate. Because of it the both sider player's confidence will grow.

I think there is need to be a clarification on this topic "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep the score?".

This topic refers to the spirit of game not that we should take part in the game without the spirit of winning.

Hi my name is Nirmala. According to me to participate in any game is much important. Just we need to concentrate on our work. Give your 100% in a game. Don't think of just winning think how you can develop and be a role model for other players. Therefore winning is just not everything.

Scores are kept to get results thereby able to declare the winner in a particular competition. Winning is not everything but is something that keeps the competitive spirit alive.

Yes winning is not everything in any game. If we keep score in mind than we can not win the game or I can say we can not do our best. I like to tall you a example one day Sachin said when I play the game that time I forget my records or score. Just do our best.

Hello Friends,

In my opinion, if somebody has taken a profession as a sportsman, he wants to be at no. 1 position and if he achieves that still he wants to improve as whole or change its techniques so that he can retain that position. For Example - Rafael Nadal trying very hard to retain its position.

Yes Winning is not everything but yes it has got a lot of value. For a person who is new to a sport requires score so that he can improve more. For a swimmer every second counts to win, to IMPROVE.

When a sportsman achieves a score every second after that is spent by him on thinking how can he score more than the previous one.

So yes scoring is good and creating a score better then the previous one is what sportsman wants but without cheating himself.