Rules You Would Like To See Changed in Sports

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Kill interleague play.

 

[Meat Slapping Sound]

My wackiest proposal: Football: Hitting the uprights or crossbar and in should be worth 5.

I've long had a proposal that hitting the uprights should be worth 4 points, but ONLY if the kicker/coach declares that is his intent beforehand. If he doesn't and it hits the uprights and goes out, it's still no good.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I've long had a proposal that hitting the uprights should be worth 4 points, but ONLY if the kicker/coach declares that is his intent beforehand. If he doesn't and it hits the uprights and goes out, it's still no good.

If they declared for the upright, but missed and it went through would it still be good for 3?

 

[HanSenSE]

I've made my peace with the DH. Now that it's consistent on every level of the game, I think it's fine. I don't miss seeing .139-hitting pitchers corkscrew themselves into strikeouts.

I'll never make piece with the ****ing zombie runner. But I'd probably stop bitching about it if, during the regular season, it wasn't invoked until the 13th inning. Three more innings of real baseball isn't going to hurt anybody.

Bringing back pitchers as hitters is nice, except it's been about 50 years since the DH was installed in the AL and it's filtered don to nearly every level of baseball.

 

[playthrough]

Kill interleague play.

I wish. If they did, maybe in a few years the ASG would become something again. Watching that as a kid in an NL city and seeing those AL players (and the uniforms!) was mindblowing.

 

[Slacker]

Bringing back pitchers as hitters is nice, except it's been about 50 years since the DH was installed in the AL and it's filtered don to nearly every level of baseball.

Don Baylor, right?

 

[HanSenSE]

Don Baylor, right?

Next on MTV: Don Unfiltered.

 

[Meat Slapping Sound]

Rather than dive into the bottomless pit that is college football administration, I'd prefer to focus on the actual game-time rules.

Offensive holding should only be a 5-yard penalty. It happens enough and is often called so subjectively that it shouldn't be the drive killer that it is. Also, when the penalty is called, you are already losing the yards you would have gained on the play, so it's basically a double penalty anyway.

Start OT at the 35-yard line instead of the 25. If you can't gain a yard on three downs in overtime, you should have to make a 50-plus yard field goal to stay in it. Also, do away with the two-point shootout.

Reviews should have a time limit. If you can't determine the right call in 60 seconds, the call on the field stands.

 

[Meat Slapping Sound]

If they declared for the upright, but missed and it went through would it still be good for 3?

Good question. No. It's all or nothing.

 

[playthrough]

No more penalties or DQs if a pro golfer signs an incorrect scorecard. Like we don’t know who shot what already.

I hear you but that would probably only work at the top levels with ShotLink and all. When the Korn Ferry Tour is in Wichita on a Thursday morning, probably still gonna need scorecards as a backup.

 

[dixiehack]

I hear you but that would probably only work at the top levels with ShotLink and all. When the Korn Ferry Tour is in Wichita on a Thursday morning, probably still gonna need scorecards as a backup.

You can still keep scorecards. But if you find you got one wrong, just fix it. Reward the best skills not the best bookkeeping.

 

[MileHigh]

Rather than dive into the bottomless pit that is college football administration, I'd prefer to focus on the actual game-time rules.

Offensive holding should only be a 5-yard penalty. It happens enough and is often called so subjectively that it shouldn't be the drive killer that it is. Also, when the penalty is called, you are already losing the yards you would have gained on the play, so it's basically a double penalty anyway.

Start OT at the 35-yard line instead of the 25. If you can't gain a yard on three downs in overtime, you should have to make a 50-plus yard field goal to stay in it. Also, do away with the two-point shootout.

Reviews should have a time limit. If you can't determine the right call in 60 seconds, the call on the field stands.

No. It should be a punitive penalty. And it would get called a lot more often. Defensive holding is 10 and an auto first down. Do you want to change that?

Sure.

There is a bit of a time restraint on replays, but not really enforced. Would prefer there be a challenge system in college like there is in the NFL.

 

[Meat Slapping Sound]

No. It should be a punitive penalty. And it would get called a lot more often. Defensive holding is 10 and an auto first down. Do you want to change that?

No I think you can leave defensive holding alone because, in theory, it is preventing yards from being gained. So the punishment should be yards given. Since you never really know how many yards a play would have gained, 10 is a good number.

For offensive holding, the result is, again in theory, yards gained that shouldn't be. So the punishment starts by taking those yards away. Adding on additional yards lost as part of the punishment is fine, but I think adding a whole additional first down (10 yards) is excessive.

I'd also entertain the idea for offensive holding that you lose the yards gained and the down, but I like five yards and retry the down better.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Obvious one - the hydration breaks at the World Cup have got to go.

 

[MileHigh]

No I think you can leave defensive holding alone because, in theory, it is preventing yards from being gained. So the punishment should be yards given. Since you never really know how many yards a play would have gained, 10 is a good number.

For offensive holding, the result is, again in theory, yards gained that shouldn't be. So the punishment starts by taking those yards away. Adding on additional yards lost as part of the punishment is fine, but I think adding a whole additional first down (10 yards) is excessive.

I'd also entertain the idea for offensive holding that you lose the yards gained and the down, but I like five yards and retry the down better.

It fits into a contact foul, thus it's 10 yards. It's not a false start or illegal motion. It's sufficient.

 

[Slacker]

I've said it other times, but no timeouts in the final 3 or 5 minutes of college basketball and NBA games, other than for legitimate injuries, and penalize intentional fouls then, too. It ain't a chess match. Let the players play. I'm sure John Wooden would agree.

 

[MTM]

Not a rule change, but a scoring change I believe I've promoted here before.

Baseball needs a team error for when a ball falls between fielders. A pitcher shouldn't be harmed by a play that should have been an out.

Also, I'd changed ERA to charge half a run to the pitcher who put the guy on base and half to the pitcher who allowed him to score.

This is probably moot, because old school stats are only meaningful to my fellow geezers and I doubt players are paid on those stats any more.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Some off-field rules I'd like changed ...

If the owner can't afford a new stadium or Jumbotron, tough. No tax dollars to fund stadium projects.

NFL games will be played on Sundays and Monday Night. That's right, even Thursday games end. And the Sunday games will take place in the traditional afternoon time slots. This is to maximize the value paying for Sunday Ticket and RedZone.

 

[Meat Slapping Sound]

It fits into a contact foul, thus it's 10 yards. It's not a false start or illegal motion. It's sufficient.

I'd say it's MORE than sufficient.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Could soccer offside be fixed if they made one subtle tweak?
Instead of any part of the body being past the defender resulting in offside, make it either the entire body or both feet (or even one foot) needs to be past the defender for it to be offside.
Seems like it would eliminate some of those ridiculous offside calls where the offensive player reacts faster than the defender and is called for leaning too much, without violating the spirit of the rule.

I mentioned on the other thread the the spirt of the offside rule is to prevent an unfair advantage for the attacker. One toe past a defender is only relevant in racing. I like having it be at least a whole foot.