head to head
vs
Ashes Cricket 2009vsMario Kart 7
Ashes Cricket 2009 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario Kart 7 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Ashes Cricket 2009Mario Kart 7
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Mario Kart 7 leans harder on execution: Drift boosts, gliding, and underwater control
Reads3 vs 3
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 4
Mario Kart 7 leans harder on variance: Item luck shapes every race
Optimization5 vs 5
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.