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It would turn into a game of defending your opponents goal to prevent them from scoring on themselves. Actually if you think about it, it could add a whole new

It would turn into a game of defending your opponents goal to prevent them from scoring on themselves. Actually if you think about it, it could add a whole new element to the game and maybe even be exciting, if not more confusing...

mrkurt 16y ago
It would turn into a game of defending your opponents' goal to keep them from scoring and attempting to score in your own goal. It's like real soccer, only goalies can only pick the ball up when they're trying to score.
amalcon 16y ago
The "suicide" strategy is much harder to pull off effectively. The team to go to that strategy would need to "win" by more than five goals. If the other team can score only enough to keep the difference less than five, then they win by the regular rules. This would mean that a team attempting the "suicide" strategy from the outset would need to be much better in that paradigm than the other team. If we assume that the skills involved are similar, this would mean that they could probably win anyway using the normal rules. Adopting the strategy partway through the game -- say, when behind by three goals -- could be effective, but if the other team knows about this, they would keep the difference to only two goals. It would result in either a heavy emphasis on defense, or a strategy of scoring one goal and then passing the ball around for the rest of the game.
- nevinera 16y ago
  There is one problem with your analysis. The team that gets scored 'on' is the one that gets the ball for the kick-off. Since different teams get the initial and half-time kick-offs, it boils down to which team is capable of scoring the most own-goals in the same (lengthy) amount of time. The second team has a huge advantage, because they win by scoring 4 less own-goals than the leading team.
necrecious 16y ago
ah, the misere game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misère http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misère
evgen 16y ago
From the strange but true files: the Caribbean Cup once had a rule that awarded a two goal victory to teams that won in overtime, so Barbados scored an own-goal against themselves to create a tie that would force overtime. Once their opponent figured out what had happened there was three minutes of football in which one team was trying to defend both goals against another team that was just trying to make sure the game did not end in a tie.

mrkurt 16y ago

It would turn into a game of defending your opponents' goal to keep them from scoring and attempting to score in your own goal. It's like real soccer, only goalies can only pick the ball up when they're trying to score.

amalcon 16y ago

The "suicide" strategy is much harder to pull off effectively. The team to go to that strategy would need to "win" by more than five goals. If the other team can score only enough to keep the difference less than five, then they win by the regular rules. This would mean that a team attempting the "suicide" strategy from the outset would need to be much better in that paradigm than the other team. If we assume that the skills involved are similar, this would mean that they could probably win anyway using the normal rules. Adopting the strategy partway through the game -- say, when behind by three goals -- could be effective, but if the other team knows about this, they would keep the difference to only two goals. It would result in either a heavy emphasis on defense, or a strategy of scoring one goal and then passing the ball around for the rest of the game.

nevinera 16y ago
There is one problem with your analysis. The team that gets scored 'on' is the one that gets the ball for the kick-off. Since different teams get the initial and half-time kick-offs, it boils down to which team is capable of scoring the most own-goals in the same (lengthy) amount of time. The second team has a huge advantage, because they win by scoring 4 less own-goals than the leading team.

necrecious 16y ago

ah, the misere game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misère http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misère

evgen 16y ago

From the strange but true files: the Caribbean Cup once had a rule that awarded a two goal victory to teams that won in overtime, so Barbados scored an own-goal against themselves to create a tie that would force overtime. Once their opponent figured out what had happened there was three minutes of football in which one team was trying to defend both goals against another team that was just trying to make sure the game did not end in a tie.