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wyoak posted:Every sport except Soccer, NHL Playoff OT, and Baseball, but mostly Football If you combined this with a 15 second play clock I would consider the NFL watchable.
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Panzeh posted:If you combined this with a 15 second play clock I would consider the NFL watchable. See that won't happen because everyone's brilliant idea to reduce concussions involves players seeing even fewer snaps than they do now.
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I'll take all the dumb commercials imaginable if I don't have to see giant awful logos on the uniforms.
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wyoak posted:Every sport except Soccer, NHL Playoff OT, and Baseball, but mostly Football NASCAR has commercials. NASCAR races have more commercials than actual racing. Good luck and godspeed.
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Peanut President posted:NASCAR has commercials. NASCAR races have more commercials than actual racing. Good luck and godspeed. The full-course yellow flag is a somewhat natural commercial break once pit stops are over. American coverage of F1 takes a commercial break every five laps even though the races are usually green the whole time, though!
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iajanus posted:Fixing the Nrl: This but Brisbane instead.
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runoverbobby posted:The full-course yellow flag is a somewhat natural commercial break once pit stops are over. That's the rate NASCAR goes. Hell exciting battle for the lead? gently caress that noise, be back later for a commercial. Comes back to see the lead changes.
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BMB5150 posted:That's the rate NASCAR goes. Hell exciting battle for the lead? gently caress that noise, be back later for a commercial. Comes back to see the lead changes. Could be worse, could be the British Coverage of F1, exiting battle for the lead? gently caress that noise, let the commentators and race director continue to fellate Lewis Hamilton. Try and work out what is going on with the rest of the race from the live timing.
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I've thought this since the ITV days, but there either needs to be a dedicated world feed commentary for F1 that doesn't take sides, or the Sky guys need to realize that they're the de facto english-language world feed, and therefore should at least try to be impartial.
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runoverbobby posted:The full-course yellow flag is a somewhat natural commercial break once pit stops are over. NASCAR has commercials during green flag. NASCAR has commercials during lead changes. NASCAR has commercials while a wreck is in progress.
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And lol if you think that the NFL would replace TV ads with ads on jerseys and the field. They will do both!
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Allowing the clock to continually run in American football is actually a very good idea. 1) it will reduce concussions 2) it will reduce forum posts about "fencing response ![]() 3) it will eliminate commercial breaks 4) it will probably reduce the amount of time the coffee breaks between plays last 5) it will make American football fans realize that their players roll around on the field injured just as often as soccer players do
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Archery Problem: Not popular enough. Solution: Needs more dystopian archery movies. Recurves only.
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DJExile posted:An independent league is experimenting with some ideas to speed baseball up. Short version: I like all of this
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JediGandalf posted:Archery Make everybody shoot like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g
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runoverbobby posted:5) it will make American football fans realize that their players roll around on the field injured just as often as soccer players do Well yes, but they are actually injured.
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Detroit_Dogg posted:Well yes, but they are actually injured. Unless they're playing against a fast-paced offense
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runoverbobby posted:4) it will probably reduce the amount of time the coffee breaks between plays last This is actually one of those things that I've always found to be kind of funny that people never talk about. It's waaaaaay more noticable how much time is wasted on this when you're at the game instead of watching on TV, though.
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IcePhoenix posted:This is actually one of those things that I've always found to be kind of funny that people never talk about. It's waaaaaay more noticable how much time is wasted on this when you're at the game instead of watching on TV, though. This was the tough thing to get used to as a MAC team fan. BG games were almost never televised, so you got a game knocked out in maybe 2 hours and it was awesome. Then TV started showing up (and believe me, we love the exposure) and all of a sudden games went at least an hour longer. Hell, nowadays even if we don't have TV, we keep taking "media timeouts" just so everyone stays used to the pace of a non-televised game.
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DJExile posted:This was the tough thing to get used to as a MAC team fan. BG games were almost never televised, so you got a game knocked out in maybe 2 hours and it was awesome. Then TV started showing up (and believe me, we love the exposure) and all of a sudden games went at least an hour longer. Hell, nowadays even if we don't have TV, we keep taking "media timeouts" just so everyone stays used to the pace of a non-televised game. The media timeouts are generally only between changes of possession, but yeah those can suck too. It's always fun when you have a drive end with points then get a commercial break both before and after the kickoff.
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IcePhoenix posted:commercial break both before and after the kickoff. gently caress these to death, jesus they are the worst
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DJExile posted:gently caress these to death, jesus they are the worst Even better: Score, commercial, official review, commercial, extra point try, commercial, kickoff, commercial, run one play -> two minute warning, commercial.
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DJExile posted:Hell, nowadays even if we don't have TV, we keep taking "media timeouts" just so everyone stays used to the pace of a non-televised game. This is probably done for radio. Once you've introduced ad space it won't be taken away. Even college volleyball generally takes media timeouts.
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All sports Problem: Commercials/ads trying to make a quick buck and hoodwink the general public. Fix: Ban commercials from TV forevermore. DOOMocrat posted:Make everybody shoot like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g ![]()
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Zogo posted:All sports
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NBA Problem: Last two minutes of a game dragging out due to fouling and free-throw shooting Solution: Five point, half court free throw. A team could opt to take a single, five point free throw from the half court line. They could also just take two normal free throws. Even if it wasn't used often, and had a low probability of success, it would still add uncertainty to the game. (I don't actually think this would work out, but its an interesting idea to think about.) Problem: Flopping. Solution: If a player hits the the floor (not just down to their knees, but hits the floor totally), they have to take a 2-3 minute break to make sure they are okay. This would double as a safety rule: players who really have hit the floor would have 2 minutes to make sure they aren't hurt, and it would dissuade players from flopping. (This is actually a serious idea)
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glowing-fish posted:NBA So every team would carry two players whose entire job was to tackle LeBron James 6 times a game?
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Mornacale posted:So every team would carry two players whose entire job was to tackle LeBron James 6 times a game? Which is kind of like having those players near the end of the bench whose main job is to commit fouls in the fourth quarter. I mean, there is no perfect system, but at least in a scenario like this, you wouldn't have good players flopping because their team would need them on the floor.
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glowing-fish posted:Problem: Flopping. Solution: Call offensive fouls by the rules instead of the players needing to be visibly shoved back or to the floor.
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glowing-fish posted:Problem: Flopping. This is the stupidest loving idea I've ever heard
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I would rather the video review coordinator reviewing contentious foul calls during timeouts and calling down the flops that were rewarded to the floor crew. However, that is also a stuipd idea, so I would rather the refs just not give known floppers any benefit of the doubt any time they flail or get 'pushed'.
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Problem: I don't like MLB's playoffs because I think it's silly for a league that has a long enough season that one can do statistical sampling to then have it's champion crowned through what's basically a crap-shoot. Fix: In place of a playoff, the top six teams in each league play a month long round-robin season, and then the team with the best record in each go to the World Series. More details here: I have spent way too much time thinking about something that will never happen.
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SirPhoebos posted:Problem: I don't like MLB's playoffs because I think it's silly for a league that has a long enough season that one can do statistical sampling to then have it's champion crowned through what's basically a crap-shoot. Don't some of the winter leagues already do something along these lines?
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MLB loves that crapshoot effect of the playoffs, it allows them to gloss over the realities of competitive imbalance due to financial inequity.
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SirPhoebos posted:Problem: I don't like MLB's playoffs because I think it's silly for a league that has a long enough season that one can do statistical sampling to then have it's champion crowned through what's basically a crap-shoot. This reminds me: Problem: Interleague Solution: No Interleague.
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Peanut President posted:This reminds me:
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I don't hate interleague play in principle but I hate it being used to obscure the fact that Bud Selig is a lovely commissioner and lovely person
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Interleague was cool when it meant I didn't have to play Super Bases Loaded 3 to see Blue Jays vs Expos.
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ElwoodCuse posted:MLB loves that crapshoot effect of the playoffs, it allows them to gloss over the realities of competitive imbalance due to financial inequity. Due to the nature of the game the MLB playoffs are a microcosm of the MLB regular season so it's basically a crapshoot of a crapshoot some seasons. As an example the 2012 Giants had an SRS of .2 and swept the world series. The Rays has the second highest SRS at .9 and weren't even in the playoffs. If this was the NBA it'd be like the Clippers missing the playoffs due to being in a tough division and the Bulls winning the title.
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# ? Sep 21, 2023 08:42 |
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Cricket Problem: Nobody has five days to devote to watching a test Solution: Best of 11 T20 series Problem: Not enough games in India Solution: More IPL Problem: Corruption at high levels Solution: Bribe ICC not to investigate This message has been brought to you by the committee to reinstate Lalat Modi to the BCCI
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