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'Real' (pro) baseball is also boring; so boring MLB has been for years testing out lots of tweaks to make it less boring: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/sp
by gwern 5y ago
'Real' (pro) baseball is also boring; so boring MLB has been for years testing out lots of tweaks to make it less boring: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/sports/mlb-atlantic-league-rule-changes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/sports/mlb-atlantic-leagu... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-11/mlb-rule-changes-atlantic-league-tests-tweaks-meant-to-save-baseball https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-11/mlb-rule-...
- quadrifoliate 5y agoNice! Cricket has also had these tweaks for a while, and One Day International and Twenty20 are basically new formats of the game, invented because no one wanted to watch two teams play out a match over five days.