re: NFL OT rule proposal that I never get a straight answer why not awesome

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I like soccer rules. In the playoffs, they should add 15 minutes. If still a tie the sudden death.

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75 minutes then sudden death accomplishes nothing that 60 minutes then sudden death doesn't accomplish.

Your idea is stupid, just like the rest of your posts.

Unless you can provide concrete evidence to the contrary that's just the way it is. Stupid.

But there is a coin toss in your dumbass scenario. The initial coin toss determines who gets the ball first in overtime.

Like I said, it's fricking stupid.

Unless you have some form of research proving otherwise, it's idiotic.

Sweet melt though.

troll

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Simply adding a period is nothing more than a waste of time.

My idea is better.

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Lol

never change

You haven't answered the question, troll. If you don't, you're trolling.

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okay, a 50/50 coin toss leads to the winner only winning 30 ish % of the time on the first drive. How can it be mathematically false when the odds of winning the coin toss are greater than the odds of winning on the first drive?

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Regular season sudden death began in 1974. The team who won the toss won 52% of the time; the team who lost the toss won 43% of the time; the rest of the games ended in ties.

From 1994 until the rule change, the team who won the toss won over 60% of the time, as might be expected in the age as countless rule changes favored offense.

There is no reason that an outside object should influence the game this much, especially once the game is already in progress, which is why I propose that we play the same old sudden death but remove the coin from the overtime period and replace it with the two teams' strategies stacked against each other.

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Regular season sudden death began in 1974. The team who won the toss won 52% of the time; the team who lost the toss won 43% of the time; the rest of the games ended in ties.

From 1994 until the rule change, the team who won the toss won over 60% of the time, as might be expected in the age as countless rule changes favored offense.

There is no reason that an outside object should influence the game this much, especially once the game is already in progress, which is why I propose that we play the same old sudden death but remove the coin from the overtime period and replace it with the two teams' strategies stacked against each other.

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your stats are flawed because the percentages that you cite include the 2nd possession of the team that won the coin toss. If the coin toss is whats unfair shouldnt that present itself in the very first possession? why should we care what happens after that very first possession if the coin toss is whats not fair?

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why should we care what happens after that very first possession if the coin toss is whats not fair?

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Whoa. I'm not saying that it isn't fair. The coin has two sides; it couldn't be more fair.

Consider this: the team who wins the opening toss wins the game about 52% of the time. If you automatically give the overtime non-toss to the other team, then said 52% decreases if only slightly. This is a positive effect, since 50/50 would be the ideal situation.

Given that my plan brings a large sample size closer to 50/50, which is ideal, my plan is mathematically favorable.

The Gump troll in the thread can suck my balls now.