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We were just talking about the overtime rules of various sports at lunch today. Tennis has (to me) one of the fairest systems. The sport is aided by the fact
by bmm6o 16y ago
We were just talking about the overtime rules of various sports at lunch today. Tennis has (to me) one of the fairest systems. The sport is aided by the fact that every serve onto the court ends in a point being scored. Basketball is also pretty high up there on the fairness scale. NFL football is terrible (we'll have to see how the new rules play out); college football is much better (but not perfect). Soccer and hockey are not good; I don't like the game being decided by a special mechanism (penalty shots/shoot out) fundamentally different from the regulation time play.
There's my unsolicted $0.02.
- ugh 16y agoIt’s just that fair is not necessarily the same as good. The nerve wrecking, random and unfair nature of penalty shootouts is very much part of soccer. This is not to say that every sport should have some sort of very arbitrary and unfair mechanism. I quite like tennis, it’s just to say that not everyone might think that fair is always a synonym for good.
- sdesol 16y agoAs my soccer friend explained things to me. After playing regulation time and extra time, your body just can't take it anymore. Adding additional time until somebody scores would be futile in his opinion.
- jamiequint 16y agoAt least the NHL drops shootouts during the playoffs. They are a rare enough occurrence during the regular season that they probably don't have too much of an effect on fairness in terms of their effect on the end-of-season standings.