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The problem with a lot of the examples people are citing as examples of "randomness" in sports is that they aren't random, they're player controlled.
- A wide receiver drops a pass that he should have caught? Not random. He screwed up. 100% player error, if he was a better player he would have caught it. No relation to WoW, where you press the button for a spell and then the server decides if you hit it or not. I can't go train in the offseason so that my Fears are resisted less.
- A ball hits the net in tennis and bounces in one player's favor? Not random. If the player had made a better shot the ball wouldn't have hit the net. How the ball landed after hitting the net was determined by how the player hit the ball - he/she controlled its spin, speed, direction, and angle - that it happened to hit the net was part of the shot that they made, and anything resulting from that was entirely determined by the player, not randomness.
The only example in sports that I think can be related to WoW is referee error, and every sport works to minimize that as much as possible either through use of multiple referees or video recording.
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