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The rules in sports change pretty frequently. Little changes to the rules have a massive impact on the way the game is played at a high-level. See fencing, or g

• bathtub365 6y ago
  The rules in sports don't change nearly as much as they do in competitive video games. In the sports where the rules do change often, the focus ends up on the governing body for the league for changing the rules. This is one of the reasons the Olympics often has different rules for their sports than the professional leagues that feed competitors into the Olympics.
• notahacker 6y ago
  I'm the first to sneer at the merchandising elements of [association] football, but the rare substantive changes to the game aren't driven by sales cycles. Ensuring the game isn't significantly different at grassroots level has always been a sticking point for tech adoption in football, and this is a sport so contrary to the original amateur ethos of the modern Olympics that the top players earn millions every month, clubs have official tractor sponsors and manufacturer sponsors promise the official World Cup ball will curve differently from the last one. Also, you don't have to use the IP of Epic Games Inc to play any variant of football, or even a stereotypical rich person sport like dressage, so performance improvements aren't contingent on enhancing a specific corporation's bottom line