So your problem appears to be more with tie scores rather than social-leveling. (Although I see why the social-levelers went after baseball with such a vengeance).
I don’t have a problem with soccer. I have a problem with what it meant to a lot of its original advocates—lots of tie games and no one is measurably better than anyone else.
The ties were a symptom (and desired result) of this thinking, not the underlying problem.