If you could add any new rule to a sport or game you enjoy, what rule and why?
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Something I'd like to see on every hard cap league is a cap relief calculation for team drafted players, going up the later that player was drafted. Maybe 5% per found, maybe 7.5%?
So many times teams are basically forced to move on from role players that are fan favorites because it's literally impossible to pay a team of veterans under the cap unless you have no star players and I think it would be genuinely interesting to provide a benefit on the cap side to keeping drafted players in house past their first or second deals. Part of why it's so hard to be a fan is knowing that anyone but the absolute TOP stars are just consistently going to be moving on in a few seasons.
At the same time that would just make luck the deciding factor. Noone knows if a draftee will be good. So whoever gets lucky and drafts that good player or two gets to ride that wave as long as they can play.
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Baseball: no more home runs. If it goes out of the park it's a foul. It will force a much more dynamic infield game and get rid of boring ass pop flys.
Edit: exception for grand slams because that shit is pretty exciting.
I say a home run is an out. Really put the pressure on them.
I would also make it easier to hit, there are a variety of ways to do that. Might have to allow an extra outfielder though. But the idea is to make it less of a pitcher vs hitter game. Make fielding matter, cause that skill ahs really gone down the tubes the last few decades. -
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American football
I would remove defensive pass interference from the game. It’s been abused by offenses, they just throw it up to the guy way down field and if anyone touches him, first down there.
I would also get rid of the QB slide rule so many abuse for extra yards. You have the ball? You can get hit.
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Backcourt violation in Football (also known as Soccer).
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I'd remove the size constraint on darts, so you could choose to use a lawn dart on your last turn, for example, to score 6352 points.
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All sports have an alternative league where performance enhancing drugs are mandatory to participate. That's way more fun.
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American football
I would remove defensive pass interference from the game. It’s been abused by offenses, they just throw it up to the guy way down field and if anyone touches him, first down there.
I would also get rid of the QB slide rule so many abuse for extra yards. You have the ball? You can get hit.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I’ll agree on the defensive pass interference, as long as we have it where if it’s over the top egregious holding then that isn’t allowed.
Otherwise the pass game would be dead
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I'm not super into sports so I don't know what the best specific rule to deal with this would be, but there needs to be more accountability for bad calls from referees.
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All sports have an alternative league where performance enhancing drugs are mandatory to participate. That's way more fun.
I wouldn't go with "mandatory" but no doping tests would be quite something!
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I'm all in for crazy hockey. Boosters, bumpers, multipuck, moving goals, tilting ice, pucks made of different materials, sticks made of different materials, boxing gloves appear at centre ice giving the player who grabs them 30 second free pass for roughing.
Can we just finally have rocket skates on bigger rinks? Put some ramps in it and you've got full rocket league.
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As someone who is forced to watch baseball by their fanatical wife: the MLB should adopt most of the rules that the Savannah Bananas use, including a fan catching a foul ball counts as an out, trick plays, inning timer, etc.
Also stilts.
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Baseball: Strictly timed innings.
The Savanna Bananas added a game timer, and it is great.
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MMMMMMMULTIBALLLLLLL
Any sport, doesn't really matter. Periodically during the game more balls start getting added into the playing field to spice things up, a la pinball tables.
Tennis, Football, Volleyball, Baseball, Basketball etc etc
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imagining the absolute chaos that would result if an announcer shouted out "MULTIPUCK!" and extra pucks rained down on an NHL game
I'm for this.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Isn't that kinda what happens when the overtime keeps being extended?
edit: Never mind, apparently that's a myth
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Soccer: yellow card for faking injuries (you can easily see players close to death that jumps us and run if no whistle is blown) and for protesting with the referee. Also, microphoned referee so that the whole audience can hear what they say (it will result in LOTS of red cards until respect is shown)
Basketball: intentional foul is two free throws and ball, three in the last 2 minutes
Football: proper helmets
I think a simple matter that if you roll around on the ground "in pain," you get removed for medical attention and for the rest of the game for monitoring. If you're injured, you're injuried. If you're being a whiny baby, you don't deserve to be in the game. If you're faking, you deserve to be ejected. But in all cases it comes to the same conclusion.
Oh, and this doesn't automatically mean a foul. It's not like a person can't get hurt when no foul occurs. I hurt myself stepping out of bed in the morning.
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I would add that at any given time during a football game a fan can throw a new football on the field and two balls may be in-play at that time.
why?
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All sports: ban gambling sponsorships. Ban teams from wearing gambling company logos or otherwise promoting gambling companies. Ban leagues and networks from incorporating gambling sponsorships into the programming.
I would also say ban gambling advertising entirely, but that's a government law, not a sports one. With the sports rule change, gambling companies could still buy ad spots during as breaks. Just no commentators going "and now over to Lad Brokes so the punters can know the odds in this game".
I'd happily go a step further and just ban advertising altogether.
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yellow card for faking injuries…and for protesting with the referee.
Huge yes. I support the others saying it could even be a red card. The astonishingly bad sportsmanship from soccer players compared to other sports is a big reason it will never be taken seriously in countries like Australia. Diving is nothing short of cheating, and it's developed to such an extent that even children are frequently imitating the stars they see on TV and doing it in local club games.
In Australian football, which is played on cricket ovals ranging in size, but ~150 m long is a good ballpark figure, it takes very little talkback to the umpires (tbh, I've seen the rule overused in cases where it really didn't seem appropriate) before they'll march you 50 m. The opposing team gets not just a free kick, but a free kick from 50 metres closer to their offensive goal than where the original infringement took place.
Football: proper helmets
Assuming you mean gridiron football, I don't know exactly what you mean (how are the current helmets not "proper"?), but I would say exactly the opposite. The illusion of safety the helmet gives is part of what leads to concussions and CTE.
I'd do away with the helmet entirely. Go bald, or with a simple scrum cap, like in rugby union and rugby league. Techniques will have to adapt somewhat, but that's how all sports have to adapt to technological changes.
You're essentially saying "ban gridiron football" because every aspect of the game would have to change if they weren't wearing those pads. And it almost was banned in 1905 because college players were dying. That's when the forward pass was introduced, diverging sharply from rugby.
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Yellow card for faking an injury in soocer
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You're essentially saying "ban gridiron football" because every aspect of the game would have to change if they weren't wearing those pads. And it almost was banned in 1905 because college players were dying. That's when the forward pass was introduced, diverging sharply from rugby.
The sport would absolutely have to change in some significant ways to adapt to that rule, but it could be done. Learn a more rugby-like style of tackling. Push from the line of scrimmage more like sumo wrestlers (a comparison I think I saw someone else in this thread bring up).
I am not what you'd call a fan of gridiron. I'm not American, and have only really been exposed to it in more than a very light "cultural osmosis" way over the last two or three years since I now know an American who refs local games here in Aus. But to be honest, I like the game. If I were American, I could easily see myself getting right into it. And I want the sport to keep the core elements that make it interesting and to be viable at a high level indefinitely. I just don't see a future for the sport in the long run with CTE rates as high as they are and research continuing to show how bad the long-term effects even of repeated sub-concussive impacts can be. (Though on that topic, I have no idea how boxing plans to exist into the future. I can't imagine it'll still be a thing in 60 years unless it undergoes some pretty extreme changes.)
