I was thinking about this the other day and I’m sure most of you have examples as well. I’ll start-
NBA
-Being able to advance the ball to halfcourt after calling a timeout. In what sport can you advance the ball 50% of the arena with no effort & be given an opportunity to take a tying or game winning shot?
NFL
-3rd & 25 and a 5 yard defensive holding penalty yields an automatic first down for the offensive team. Absolutely ridiculous.
What else ya got?
Agreed.
why not enforce it at the 1 yard line?
also for goaline plays, the defense can launch themselves into the backfield to stop a run play and the only penalty is 1/2 the distance? they can try to time it and hope the refs miss if they are offsides.
- Why can't you goaltend a FG attempt?
- Muffed balls cannot be advanced
In NHL - when they call a penalty shot, if it is unsuccessful, why is the penalized player not sent to the box?
Baseball - On passed ball third strikes, you can't try to go to first if the base was occupied.
-the rule where the offense fumbles the ball through the end zone and out of bounds, the defense gets the ball on the 20. WTF?
-the mere existence of extra point or conversions of any kind in football. You score a TD, that should be the end of it. Why do you need this subsequent play?
-sometimes I think you should be able to goaltend in the NBA once the ball hits the rim.
-Randomly, I'd love to see what hockey would look like without offsides.
-not having an official stadium clock in soccer tied into the ref's clock
-not posting judge's scores round by round in boxing
- Why can't you goaltend a FG attempt?
- Muffed balls cannot be advanced
In NHL - when they call a penalty shot, if it is unsuccessful, why is the penalized player not sent to the box?
Baseball - On passed ball third strikes, you can't try to go to first if the base was occupied.
Baseball one makes sense. Catcher could just drop the 3rd strike on purpose and get a double play. Basically it exists for the same reason as the infield fly rule.
What I would like to see with soccer is no offside when the ball is in the penalty area. That might make things interesting.
Soccer: offside
The power play:go ahead and "ice" the puck; no face off in your zone.
Rewarding the penalized team by allowing them to dump the puck as often as they can, letting the clock run down, taking action away from the penalized teams goalie.
If you have a great penalty kill D, slash/hook away.
if that were an effective strategy, teams would already be parking a player at the opposing blue line.
Soccer: offside
Both of those issues stop goal hanging, in both sports. If you didn't have those, you would literally have guys sitting outside the goal/basket and wait for a ball to come to them.
In NHL - when they call a penalty shot, if it is unsuccessful, why is the penalized player not sent to the box?
Or give the team the option of declining the penalty shot and taking the 2:00.
The power play:go ahead and "ice" the puck; no face off in your zone.
Rewarding the penalized team by allowing them to dump the puck as often as they can, letting the clock run down, taking action away from the penalized teams goalie.
If you have a great penalty kill D, slash/hook away.
agree that giving a penalized team the ability to do something you can't do during normal game conditions is dumb. Allowing shorthanded teams to ice the puck also lets them change lines.
- Why can't you goaltend a FG attempt?
It wouldnt take any type of special skill for an NBA center to block almost any shot.
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- Why can't you goaltend a FG attempt?
It wouldnt take any type of special skill for an NBA center to block almost any shot.
He was talking about a football FG, not a basketball one.
I don't have any problem with this.
1) a smart defense is always trying to get into the backfield as quick as possible without getting flagged.
2) Although the defensive flag does not result in significant yardage for the offense, it does give the Offense an extra down. That is an extra chance to move the ball just 1 or two yards into the endzone. Also, the penalty is optional for the offense... so if the offensive play goes wrong and fails to get the score or goes disastrously (turnover), that extra down for the offense is huge.
Seems strange that you can block the ball at the LOS, but can't as it is getting to the uprights.
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Offensive 3-second lane violation.
Soccer: offside
Both of those issues stop goal hanging, in both sports. If you didn't have those, you would literally have guys sitting outside the goal/basket and wait for a ball to come to them.
But the defense can put someone on them. So advantage nullified.
I can speak to basketball more so than soccer. This just penalizes bigger stronger players which I dont get. We dont penalize faster players for being fast.
As for soccer, it would open the game up more. Ok, if you want to cherry pick and spread your team out then you are just loosening up your defense.
Drives me nuts when a team gets a 1 goal lead in the 2nd half and just packs in 10 players defensively.
I don't like the "trapeziod" rule either. It punishes a skill.
The NFL is the KING of contradictory, overly complex rules.
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- Why can't you goaltend a FG attempt?
It wouldnt take any type of special skill for an NBA center to block almost any shot.
He was talking about a football FG, not a basketball one.
Ahhh, I see.
THAT would take considerable talent and would add a little fun to a last second 55 yard field goal attempt.
The extra-point made sense in the old days of low scoring regulation time-only games when kickers weren't so great. It was an effective tie-breaker. No longer needed today despite Roger's lame-o efforts to re-invigorate it. Probably still exists only for TV purposes. They can sneak in a network promo or even a full blown commercial if needed.
Totally agree. It would be like deciding basketball games with halfcourt shots.
Let's take an element of the game that almost never happens and have it decide games.
Basketball used to have a tip after every score. If you had a really tall player with no discernible basketball skill you had a huge advantage.
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Let's determine the winner of this tie game by seeing which goalie randomly guesses right more.
Totally agree. It would be like deciding basketball games with halfcourt shots.
Let's take an element of the game that almost never happens and have it decide games.
Let's play a 120 minute game with goals hard to come by and then settle it with new game where there's like 9 goals in about 5 minutes.
The power play:go ahead and "ice" the puck; no face off in your zone.
Rewarding the penalized team by allowing them to dump the puck as often as they can, letting the clock run down, taking action away from the penalized teams goalie.
If you have a great penalty kill D, slash/hook away.
Is this serious? You know the short handed team has less players on the ice. I'd say that's a significant disadvantage.
Interestingly though in youth hockey (mites, squirts and peewees and even bantams I think) they no longer allow a short handed team to ice the puck. It's considered icing. The reason though is not what you were getting at, it's a USA Hockey influenced rule to encourage the youngsters to skate the puck more and find creative ways to get the puck out of the zone while short-handed.
Takes some getting used to.
It seems like players like Tony Gonzalez or Jimmy Graham barely make it high enough to spike the football over the goal post.
to be able to time a jump right and swat a moving football out of the air should be allowed. I can see them saying you can't use the goal post as leverage, but if you can jump up and swat the FG away you should be able to.
Has this happened and resulted in something?
Why is the hell do they reward a poor result?
You shot, you missed, the ball went out of bounds. The other team gets the ball. I can't for the life of me figure out why this can't be applied...
Get up and keep running.
Also WTF is a clear path foul penalized LITERALLY the same as a flagrant 1 (non-DQ)?
Defensive 3 seconds. It kinda means you still can't play zone. And D is already hard enough without every rule leaning to O & scoring
As mentioned above soccer offsides. As a bball guy, it's on you to play D. I get the field is huge but if you're on D you should know where the O is, especially w/ dedicated D positions
1. shootouts. Some high profile important games have been decided by shootouts and it's a shame (soccer and INTL hockey). players, coaches, fans, etc. have so much invested in their teams play until a winner (like NHL playoffs).
2. replay in sports. I believe we all should always want the correct outcome. But sports are played by humans and officiated by humans. If you can be sure the officials are not corrupt, a missed call in a real time fast game is something you need to accept. I'm willing to live and die by those decisions.
2a. In the NFL if you are going to allow replay, why just allow replay for a catch or a first down, but not something sometimes so much more impactful like pass interference or the aforementioned defensive holding, or even offensive holding, Boothe on Wilfork in SBXLVI could have been game changing. and there's a ton of phantom PI calls. No idea why a catch is challengeable or a 1 yard run to get a 1st down, but not a 40 yard PI call.
Get rid of all replay or find a way to make the impactful decisions get corrected. All of them.
3. baseball warnings. this is unfair. Team A hits player on team B and if there has been any history both benches get warned. Why warn both benches? One team's pitcher hit the other team's player, how is that fair to warn both?
4. hockey faceoffs. drop the puck. stop kicking players out for not lining up right. Make it a penalty or clarify the rule, it's killing me. Every face off one center is kicked out.
5. Delay of game (over the glass) in hockey. I think this should be a judgement call, so many times a defenseman hits a bouncing puck and there is clearly no intent, but it's a black and white rule when it shouldn't be.
I'm sure there is more.
I know MLB traditionalists hate it but IMO a consistent strike zone would simply follow the actual rules of the game vs the nonsense random strike zones. And if you KNOW someone is framing a pitch, THEN STILL CALL IT RIGHT DUMBASS. I get how it influences, but that's why you're paid to judge what's accurate. So they should just have an electronic strike zone
Actually I'm sure no one watches cricket, but their DRS review is awesome. The rules already lend themselves to it, but they use on the line camera angles, a mic / audio signal spectrum to help decide if the ball hits the bat, then a tracking model to show the ball trajectory (to see if it hits the stumps) - much like tennis' line review. Really cool
Tuck rule. How is it a subjective amount of time when the tuck ends? When I saw it live I assumed it's when his 2nd hand touches the ball again
Or how they talk about "an element of time." What element? Either call out the EXACT amount of time or use something else. And if it's fractions of a second, obviously a human can't judge so that has to be considered
Basically you can't introduce terminology and leave it undefined. "Element of time" "football move" (esp in the endzone). It's mindnumbingly stupid given all the money & smarts & highly educated resources in billion dollar industry
But overall they do need to easy up on the PI. If NE is ever 3rd and 8 or more all Brady does is throw the ball out of bounds 40 yards down the left sideline, yell at the refs, and whaddaya you know pass interference and it's 1st and goal NE. Give the defenders a damn chance. Some handfighting and tugging here and there is fine
2) As the OP mentioned, I always wondered about the NBA rule allowing a team to advance the ball to half-court after a time out. I never liked it and I never understood why.
3) As mentioned, icing waived off on a PK
4) NBA - Defensive 3 seconds
Why is the hell do they reward a poor result?
You shot, you missed, the ball went out of bounds. The other team gets the ball. I can't for the life of me figure out why this can't be applied...
I like the rule and you coach within it. It encourages shot taking and you have to allot a player to be near the end line so you can shoot again. Shoot and a miss the d gets it regardless and runs the length of the field the refs and the midfielders would be dead and the game would be more of a track meet.
If a player or coach is deemed - by whatever standard - to be worthy of HoF consideration, then they should be added to the list.
Look at coaching in the NFL. These guys can coach for a long time, and sometimes into the twilight of their lives.
Let's use Belichick as an example (you can use Coughlin too). He is 66. He may coach until he's 70. Then he'll have to wait until he's 75 for the call. There is a lot that can go wrong when you are that age. I'd hate for his family and him, in this example, to miss that special moment because of some silly rule to let a person's work marinate for a while with the voters.
Utter bullsh-t...
Yeah this one kills me. Especially when a team has a strong push in the offensive zone and scores. Wait a minute, he was off sides by a fraction of a skate blade 45 seconds earlier and that had absolutely no impact on the goal itself.
I do agree if it is a rush and they score on the ensuing play.
I like the rule and you coach within it. It encourages shot taking and you have to allot a player to be near the end line so you can shoot again. Shoot and a miss the d gets it regardless and runs the length of the field the refs and the midfielders would be dead and the game would be more of a track meet.
Interesting.
On the other hand, you play really good, tight D. And force a player into a bad shot that flies way off goal and out of bounds. The reward? Too bad, work hard and play defense again because what you did the first time essentially means nothing...
Defensive pass interference penalties in the NFL should not result is an automatic first down. Should be a 15 yard penalty.
There should be no roughing the passer penalty. The same rules that apply to the ability to hit a player should apply. Why a special rule for quarterbacks... are they more vulnerable than a downfield receiver catching a rainbow pass?
Why in God's name is there a shoot-out in the NHL. Play 5 minute OT periods and remove a skater until a goal is scored.
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3-5 guys can be subbed a game? What is this 1950?
I'm not much of a soccer historian, so I don't know when it changed, but I believe the rule used to be there were no subs. If there was an injury, you played a man down.
The 2014 Champions League final is a good example. Atletico Madrid decided to start their star striker Diego Costa despite him not being fully recovered from a hamstring injury. Sure enough he was forced to come off after 8 minutes. Considering Real Madrid scored to make it 1-1 late in injury time, you could make a case that the decision to start Costa cost Atletico the Champions League.
yes it should. you should not be rewarded for mistiming your slide.
This 100%
Get up and keep running.
the fact that MLB has a designated hitter rule in ONE league
and doesn't have it in the other league
no other sport in the world plays with two different set of rules
it is so absurd
the fact that MLB has a designated hitter rule in ONE league
and doesn't have it in the other league
no other sport in the world plays with two different set of rules
it is so absurd
The DH is impure. It's an abomination.
It is incredible how much that shot has altered the state of the game. And at all levels. My son played in a very competitive AAU league and there were teams that took well over 70% threes.
Basically, first one who gets the ball, dribbles up then... (1) fakes a drive, steps back, shoots the three, (2) jump shot, shoot the three, or (3) get the high screen, shoot the three. Or once in a while swing it around and then launch the three.
All else fails, drive for the lay-up.
Repeat.
Basketball is a beautiful game when played at a level involving all five players. I'm not sure I find this version of the game a great evolving...
It is incredible how much that shot has altered the state of the game. And at all levels. My son played in a very competitive AAU league and there were teams that took well over 70% threes.
Basically, first one who gets the ball, dribbles up then... (1) fakes a drive, steps back, shoots the three, (2) jump shot, shoot the three, or (3) get the high screen, shoot the three. Or once in a while swing it around and then launch the three.
All else fails, drive for the lay-up.
Repeat.
Basketball is a beautiful game when played at a level involving all five players. I'm not sure I find this version of the game a great evolving...
It seems like players like Tony Gonzalez or Jimmy Graham barely make it high enough to spike the football over the goal post.
to be able to time a jump right and swat a moving football out of the air should be allowed. I can see them saying you can't use the goal post as leverage, but if you can jump up and swat the FG away you should be able to.
Has this happened and resulted in something?
I think it is legal. I've seen it happen.
If a player or coach is deemed - by whatever standard - to be worthy of HoF consideration, then they should be added to the list.
Look at coaching in the NFL. These guys can coach for a long time, and sometimes into the twilight of their lives.
Let's use Belichick as an example (you can use Coughlin too). He is 66. He may coach until he's 70. Then he'll have to wait until he's 75 for the call. There is a lot that can go wrong when you are that age. I'd hate for his family and him, in this example, to miss that special moment because of some silly rule to let a person's work marinate for a while with the voters.
Utter bullsh-t...
On the informal side, I don't like this whole first ballot concept. A guy, in your estimation as a voter, is either worthy of the HOF or he isn't,.
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It is incredible how much that shot has altered the state of the game. And at all levels. My son played in a very competitive AAU league and there were teams that took well over 70% threes.
Basically, first one who gets the ball, dribbles up then... (1) fakes a drive, steps back, shoots the three, (2) jump shot, shoot the three, or (3) get the high screen, shoot the three. Or once in a while swing it around and then launch the three.
All else fails, drive for the lay-up.
Repeat.
Basketball is a beautiful game when played at a level involving all five players. I'm not sure I find this version of the game a great evolving...
Agreed. It's not fun to play that way either.
That's what I get for teaching him what I was taught - dribble without carrying, take only two steps, moving without the ball, lots of cutting, looking to make the pass first, etc.
Never thought shooting was a form of passing, carrying was the new way to advance, and the Euro-step + 2 was the optimal way to move through lane... ;)
Why is the hell do they reward a poor result?
You shot, you missed, the ball went out of bounds. The other team gets the ball. I can't for the life of me figure out why this can't be applied...
Agree on a 5 yard hold being an automatic 1st down.
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If a players shoots on goal, misses, and the ball goes out of bounds his team can keep the ball if a teammate is closer to the line where the ball went out.
Why is the hell do they reward a poor result?
You shot, you missed, the ball went out of bounds. The other team gets the ball. I can't for the life of me figure out why this can't be applied...
My son played four years of Lacrosse in HS. There are so many rules in that game that it was hard to keep up.
My daughter plays Lax and is going to play D1. And they don't wear any equipment - except a mouth piece - and their game is really over-regulated for safety.
It's a little better at the club level because the refs let them play, but at the HS level the game just gets bogged down with whistle after whistle. It's really unbearable. And I live in northern Virginia where Lax is a premier sport...
the fact that MLB has a designated hitter rule in ONE league
and doesn't have it in the other league
no other sport in the world plays with two different set of rules
it is so absurd
Totally agree. IMO the MLB is the worst in this context. 2 sets of rules, no salary cap, continued reliance on humans vs digital reffing due to the enormous consistency (players don't care which way you sway, just that you call it consistently), different sized fields and on and on. And yes, I do like the actual game of baseball a lot
Mentioned this b4, but Dick Bavetta, now retired & well regarded NBA ref spoke at a bball camp I attended in Albany 20+ yrs ago. "People don't come to see MJ foul out. They come to see him score 50pts. And we're a big part of making that happen." To a room full of Knick fans - we of the repeated close playoff losses to the Bulls
Then a diatribe how "PT" means "Pine Time" to refs. "We decide who plays, not your coaches." Even a half-assed PR team would tell him to NEVER say this
A ref's job is to be unbiased, just like the rules are meant to level the playing field in order to find out who's best. It's like a science experiment and the rules & refs are the control. Of course if they are biased or just shit, what the hell did we actually learn?
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tried to block a FG on it's way down? that would be some ridiculous athleticism and timing.
It seems like players like Tony Gonzalez or Jimmy Graham barely make it high enough to spike the football over the goal post.
to be able to time a jump right and swat a moving football out of the air should be allowed. I can see them saying you can't use the goal post as leverage, but if you can jump up and swat the FG away you should be able to.
Has this happened and resulted in something?
I think it is legal. I've seen it happen.
Not legal:
[quote] Goaltending is against the rules in football, not just basketball: A player who jumps up and touches a ball as it is about to go through the goal posts in an attempt to block a field goal is flagged for goaltending, a 15-yard penalty. This came up when 49ers kicker David Akers hit the crossbar with his record-tying 63-yard field goal, and Packers receiver Randall Cobb jumped up and just missed knocking the ball away.
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but I don't like Hall of Fame rules that you need to be out of the game for X number of years.
If a player or coach is deemed - by whatever standard - to be worthy of HoF consideration, then they should be added to the list.
Look at coaching in the NFL. These guys can coach for a long time, and sometimes into the twilight of their lives.
Let's use Belichick as an example (you can use Coughlin too). He is 66. He may coach until he's 70. Then he'll have to wait until he's 75 for the call. There is a lot that can go wrong when you are that age. I'd hate for his family and him, in this example, to miss that special moment because of some silly rule to let a person's work marinate for a while with the voters.
Utter bullsh-t...
Well, since you opened that Pandora's box, I don't like a lot of the unwritten rules about the HOF voting, and some of the written ones.On the formal side, I don't like setting a limit to the number of guys that can be elected in a given year. If enough guys get the votes in a given year, why not induct them all?
On the informal side, I don't like this whole first ballot concept. A guy, in your estimation as a voter, is either worthy of the HOF or he isn't,.
I agree on everything you wrote. And despite that, I don't anything will change.
Although I think the Hockey HoF has some expedited proces in place...?
while never entering the field of play, they get a do-over.
So stupid; if a player makes a mistake why do they get awarded another chance?
Same thing with pass interference. In certain situations, if there's no spot foul, the defense will ALWAYS commit PI. Time running out, offense out of field goal range, D will always take a 15-yard penalty rather than let a pass be completed to put the O in range of a game winning FG or pass to the end zone.
Sometimes you need a deterrent.
We see in basketball that there are some situations where fouling is pretty much automatic, even without extreme situations like "hack-a-Shaq". We don't want to get to that in football.
Same thing with pass interference. In certain situations, if there's no spot foul, the defense will ALWAYS commit PI. Time running out, offense out of field goal range, D will always take a 15-yard penalty rather than let a pass be completed to put the O in range of a game winning FG or pass to the end zone.
Sometimes you need a deterrent.
We see in basketball that there are some situations where fouling is pretty much automatic, even without extreme situations like "hack-a-Shaq". We don't want to get to that in football.
My point about defensive holding and pass interference is that on the offensive side of the ball you can review/challenge if it was a catch or if a first down was reached but you cannot challenge defensive PI or holding and those plays (justifiably or not) can be just as or more impactful than a catch or a 1st down.
that is a really dumb rule. if you don't use the goal post (or a teammate) for leverage you should be able to block a FG at the goal posts. If you catch a missed FG you can return it, so why can't you jump and try and catch it?
it's probably obscure enough it won't be a priority to change it but I think it's a dumb rule.
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tried to block a FG on it's way down? that would be some ridiculous athleticism and timing.
It seems like players like Tony Gonzalez or Jimmy Graham barely make it high enough to spike the football over the goal post.
to be able to time a jump right and swat a moving football out of the air should be allowed. I can see them saying you can't use the goal post as leverage, but if you can jump up and swat the FG away you should be able to.
Has this happened and resulted in something?
I think it is legal. I've seen it happen.
Not legal:
[quote] Goaltending is against the rules in football, not just basketball: A player who jumps up and touches a ball as it is about to go through the goal posts in an attempt to block a field goal is flagged for goaltending, a 15-yard penalty. This came up when 49ers kicker David Akers hit the crossbar with his record-tying 63-yard field goal, and Packers receiver Randall Cobb jumped up and just missed knocking the ball away. ghost of mikan - ( New Window )
Wow. Thanks. That is a stupid rule.
If you don't like the shootout, then do something to complete the game before OT ends.