This seems like a description of what's currently happening

There is definitely something wrong with a system that encourages players at the end of the game to just run up and intentionally foul their opponents. It's so awkward too, since they have no chance of getting the ball, and aren't trying to hurt or tackle their opponent, so it's like, "I guess I run up and hug him as fast as I can?"

I think the solution is to let refs use some judgement. If a team fouls for the purpose of extending the game or is up 3 and immediately fouls so the other team can't shoot a 3 then the refs should call delay of game, 2 shots and the ball.

I'd be down with this if literally every free throw had to be thrown at the same basket at the same time

NBA has absolutely no variance at this point. They need to make huge steps to combat this.

-get rid of instant replay
-each team gets 1 full TO and 1 30sec TO per half
-maybe make the 1st round of the playoffs 5 games again?
-increase the max salary by a lot. Also make it harder to push past the soft cap by putting it closer to the luxury penalty. This should prevent super teams from forming.
-I would say replace the soft cap with a hard cap, but that's probably not realistic.
-get rid of or reduce all salary rules that encourage players to re-sign with their current team. (bird rights, designated player, etc) this will increase year-to-year roster variance.

Full redraft every year

NHL has to have bigger nets or smaller goalies. HAS to, it is just ridiculous how little net there is to shoot at when every goalie is 6'2"-6'6" and has this massive equipment on. The save percentage of goalies has just skyrocketed in basically a straight line up since the 70s, do people think tenders have just magically gotten better than shooters? Obviously not, they have just gotten way, way bigger. NHL has made some feeble attempts to regulate goalie equipment size but it would be much easier to just make the damn net bigger. 2 inches wider and 1 inch higher, problem solved.

Ice surface should also be bigger but that is a lesser problem than the nets.

If a soccer player goes to the ground with a real or fake injury and holds up play for lets say 30 seconds, he/she must go off the field for no less than 2 game minutes. Each occurrence per player increases the sideline time. If a team has 3 or more per half they are assessed an additional 5 minute player penalty.

these are the same post for different sports

Hockey has to get rid of the rule that you can challenge for offside after the other team scores

**** that noise lol

mlb

runner on 1st scores on ground-rule double with 2 outs.

objective way to fix the shenanigans where the runner from first is rounding 3rd when ball leaves the field.

with 2 outs, runner on first is more likely to score due to not having to even think about tagging up.

Isn't it supposed to be umpire's discretion whether or not to award home in these spots? MLB could just "recommend" to them that they use this rule more liberally (or just implement the rule, if I'm wrong about it existing lol) and that would fix the problem.

(Also total nittery here, but it should be "not having to worry about getting doubled off". Tagging up from first is something that happens a handful of times a season.)

nba

before each quarter, each team can choose to play with a shorter shot clock for their own offensive possessions, and immediately gain the difference between 24 and the number of seconds they chose.

so a team could start game with 10 second shot clock for first quarter and start with 14 points.

no more off-sides in hockey and soccer

I'd actually start watching hockey then. Soccer...probably not but who knows

Golden St would score 200 a game

NFL: stop playing on thursday except for thanksgiving

NBA: After each game, each team tweets 5 gifs of something their players/coaches/fans did during the game. Whichever team has the gif with the most retweets in 24 hours gets 5 points added to the next game

Boxing: kicking is allowed

Politics: boxing and kicking is allowed

NFL needs to go back to the old instantaneos possession rule. 2 ft down, with possession = it's a catch.

It's simple, everyone knows what is and isn't a catch, and you can almost always get it right with replay. I have no idea why they think they need all this vague "football move", "going to the ground", "completing the process" crap.

Not allowing relievers on the mound 8 pitches to warm up. That's what the bullpen is for. In the playoffs, you easily have 5-6 pitching changes per team. That adds up to 80-100 warm up pitches. MLB could knock 15-20 minutes off. Only exception is if the pitcher is hurt and you need to go to the bullpen.

Gotta get a feel for the mound.

As a batter, I don't want a pitcher coming in throwing 95 mph to me on a mound he hasn't thrown on, and to a background he hasn't thrown to. No thanks. Give him his 8 pitches.

Additionally, I welcome the chance to watch him warm up. Especially if it's someone I haven't faced before.

Absolutely!

I was a pitcher. And I do think the 8 pitches could at least be reduced. It's MLB, the mound is gonna be in great shape, and so will the bullpen mound. The difference can't be that much. If it was, the grounds crew would have fixed it between innings.

3 should be enough.

I also think the pitcher doesn't need so many warmups before each inning and that this could be reduced in the same way. I've felt for a long time that a lot of the wasted time in baseball games is the "re-warming up" that seems to happen between every half inning. Especially since the infielders and outfielders don't seem to need this much based on how lazy they do it.

In other sports, players come off the bench ready to play. They stay loose on the side. For some reason baseball spends a lot of time, probably 30-40 minutes, re-warming up on the field. You could easily shave at least 15-20 minutes off of game time by reducing this nonsense. Perhaps it could be done the same but only done after every even numbered inning. So after the 1st, 3rd, etc. teams just get on the field and play. After the 2nd, 4th etc they go on and do a warm up routine.

Imagine how much faster baseball games would be if players just got on the field and played, and stayed loose on the sidelines, like they do in other sports.