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I feel like more people should've stolen this idea by now. Why not create height divisions in basketball? Weight divisions in football? Because those are team
by lr4444lr 4y ago
I feel like more people should've stolen this idea by now. Why not create height divisions in basketball? Weight divisions in football?
Because those are team sports. Weight classes only apply to individual sports. Maybe cross country skiing and swimming would stand to benefit from biometric divisions, but those two aforementioned in the article are bad examples.
The article's point isn't entirely clear though, and some of its statements are just wrong. The conclusion: "We watch sports not to see who's best, but to see who's better" is obviously false: people do like the thrill of an equal match up, but they also care about records being broken, or fawn over their favorite athlete like a god, taking delight in seeing them destroy everyone else, even unworthy competitors. Ronda Rousey brought in a lot more money than many male MMA combatants in her heyday even though she wasn't the absolute top, nor women's MMA being the big money maker. She doesn't have to out-earn Serena Williams, nor does it say anything about women vs. men.
- notacoward 4y agoI'm pretty sure some places do have weight divisions for football. I know for certain that one of my wife's cousins had to change to a different nominally-age-based division because he was simply too big for the division he was in. So the fact that these are team sports doesn't completely preclude weight-based or height-based partitioning.