Lower your risk, while completely eliminating an opposing players opportunity. Its basic game strategy. Unless you’re pretty good at hte category then the calculation changes.

That’s why I spell things like CAT on a triple word tile in Scrabble. I play defensively. It pisses people off. 

Double standard means the same thing, with the same context, gets inappropriately different reactions.

I think for rec-league sports it’s more that some guys are just legitimately terrible people. I’m a dude that stopped playing rec soccer because I was tired of the hacking, the arguments, and the bench clearing brawls. This was in a 30+ men’s league on Sunday mornings. 

There’s an old Vonnegut story called The Big Space Fuck about this