head to head
ABC Monday Night Football asks more than Grand Theft Auto V, and the gap is reads.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A retro gridiron sim mixing input timing with play-call guessing against an opponent.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Sandbox crime playground spanning shooting, driving, and a persistent online economy.
ABC Monday Night Football leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Grand Theft Auto V leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
ABC Monday Night Football leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
ABC Monday Night Football
Timing passes, jukes and tackles demands controller precision
Grand Theft Auto V
Driving and shooting demand decent inputs.
ABC Monday Night Football leans clearly harder on reads.
ABC Monday Night Football
Two-player matches involve guessing the human's play call
Grand Theft Auto V
Online PvP exists but mostly gear/positioning, not modeling.
ABC Monday Night Football leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
ABC Monday Night Football
Fumble and catch rolls add bounded football randomness
Grand Theft Auto V
Some mission and lobby randomness.
ABC Monday Night Football leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
ABC Monday Night Football
Play-calling and roster knowledge form a solvable layer
Grand Theft Auto V
Heists, money loops, builds learnable.
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.