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ELI5: why do soccer players fake injuries so frequently AND dramatically?
gpt
If you can get another player ejected for "hurting" you, your team gets an advantage.

The consequences for flopping aren't severe enough to discourage this, so players do it constantly.

In the NBA egregious flopping can earn a technical foul, but even this isn't much of a deterrent and it's become common.  

In the NHL "embellishment" is a penalty that can leave your team a man down, which is usually significant enough to keep the flopping to a fake-high-sticking minimum.