Ever wondered how many games the pats would win if brady had to throw left handed? Or How the average NHL team would fare with a sumo wrestler goalie this is the thread for you. All your beer fuelled crazy sports related discussions can be exhausted here by the great minds of the 2+2 sports forum.

A few to get you started.

The Bills play the Steelers in Pittsburgh but have managed to hire a psychic such that on both sides of the ball they know exactly what plays the Steelers have called Who is the favourite and by how much?


The average AAA baseball team plays the average MLB team but the AAA team gets a number of strategic outs that they can use anytime the ball is not in play ie if someone hits a triple once they're at 3rd and the play is over you can use an out to get rid of them but you can't do it as they're rounding third and the ball is in play. You can also use them to get someone out before a ball is thrown to them. How many outs per game would they need such that the game is evenly matched?

How many extra men would a top college basketball team need on the court at once to make it in the NBA

Discuss these or make up your own (or say this thread should be locked because it's moronic)

What does your last question mean, make it in the NBA or NFL? How many extra players would it need to be competitive with an NBA team? If it's NFL...I'm not sure what the question means. If it's NBA...probably 2 or 3 players to be competitive with a normal NBA team.

How many 5 year olds would it take to beat Lebron in a full court game?

okay, i'll play.

1. bills favored by, like, three touchdowns?

2. i don't even really understand the question, but probably an out an inning or something?

3. clarify -- do you mean to win a game, or to be a playoff team, or what? my answer is probably 2 or 3

1. I wonder how valuable knowing defensive play-calling would be. Knowing Offensive play-calling is huge, and should completely shutdown the running game. The Steelers offense's only chance at scoring would be excelling at pass match-ups. The Bills on offense... we're assuming the Bills suck? They've still got to be able to score 24 knowing the defense. So I say they're favored by 24.

2. To simplify the question, let's just say the AAA team can put an out on the board at any time. They can not automatically strike out a certain player or remove a player from the base paths. The biggest difference, of course, is in pitching, but most AAA batters can manage to put up numbers like .255/.315/.390 at the major league level. The question is what kind of numbers do MLB players put up against AAA pitching. I'm going to say that 3.5 strategic outs should make up the difference. 4.5 non-strategic outs would also probably work (MLB team only gets 2 outs in even-numbered innings).

3. I've a really hard time seeing how 6 Dukies couldn't beat 5 Lakers. The college team would depend on the 3 pointer, but college kids shoot well (even from a greater distance). On defense, being able to have an extra man down low should effectively block both the big men and the guards from driving. So, you're left with college kids getting open 3s and Pros getting contested 3s. If you think it is more than 6, recognize that there is huge diminishing returns for each additional player added.

The 1985 Chicago Bears vs. 11 real kodiak bears

Neutral field.

Discuss.

Bears 6, bears 0, or possibly bears 2, Bears 0 (forfeit). I figure the Bears get one early TD before the bears maim enough players to make the Bears not have enough players.

This becomes a somewhat trickier question if referees have the assistance of real bear handlers with tranquilizer guns to eject bears (or Steve McMichael) for ejectable conduct. I'd say a 47-ursine roster of bears would probably be ejected about midway through the first quarter.

midway through the first play

that question would be more interesting if the bears were trained to play football...i think i would still go bears by 20

As to the original questions:

Bills -30 easy. How the heck is Pittsburgh ever going to score? Offense isn't quite as easy, but barring stupid turnovers (lol Bills) you should be in the perfect play call every time.

Not sure exactly what is meant here, but something like 2 or 3 for the game is plenty. You can kill a lot of rallies with this as I think it's stated.

One should make it a pretty good game -- full court pressure/always double team the ball FTW. Doesn't help nearly as much on offense.

Are the Steelers allowed to audible?

The Steelers defense is designed around a complex blitz package. Even a terrible QB would destroy them if he knew exactly who was blitzing every play.

Not even the Bills could screw this scenario up. Bills by 24.

I think the assumption is that the audibles are known (to BUF as well) just like the plays would be.

Bills would destroy. By way more than 24 or 30.

Yeah but the coaches won't have the same time to come up with the correct counter. It's more on Posluzny and Fitzpatrick

Anyway if the Steelers don't know their minds are being read they would get destroyed most likely, though Ben and Troy improvise as much as any offensive or defensive player in the league. If the Steelers do know their playcalls are known they will probably fall into a basic cover 2 on defense and read type plays on offense. There are some things you can do on offense that would help reduce the damage but they will get destroyed.

It would be funny if they tried a surprise onside kick.

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Running the ball would be absolutely impossible since the defense would know exactly how to counter it. Passing plays would have some chance, but would often require checking down to the 4th wr or something.

OMG and I thought the Pirates had bad ownership

You could still call zone type runs where there are cutback options and the defense would still need to play gap sound limiting their advantge. Those really aren't in the Steelers playbook though

Yeah, I think the Steelers would have little to no chance.

I think a team like Washington with Shanahan's zone run scheme and McNabb being able to improvise and keep plays alive might have some chance on offense.

I don't think it's -24 though, eventually the Steelers would figure out that the run isn't working and they'd start throwing the ball more. Even if you know the offense is passing the ball and know their routes there's only so much you can do on defense. Even if you know everybody's initial routes, you still have to keep tight coverage and get pressure to the QB. Probably closer to -14 imo.

Meh, not "way more". Pittsburgh scores about 7 points the whole game when Rapelisburger completes a random bomb to someone, but it's not like Buffalo scores 56 or something.

(OK, Buffalo, I'm playing 8 in the box and single-covering your two WRs. Good luck with your Ryan Fitzpatrick to Roscoe Parrish patterns which, by the way, you're going to have to get off pretty quickly because your O-line is apt to get your QB killed in about 2.6 seconds anyway.)


It's actually a more interesting question IMO if the Steelers know that Buffalo knows their play calls. In that case I make it more like Buffalo -11 or so.

Buffalo would just have the tight end run to the void left by the blitzer for short passes over the top.

They'd also do screen passes and stuff. If they know where the pressure will come from they wait for it then dump it over the top. All day long.

Eventually I think Pitt starts getting paranoid and committing stupid penalties, which result in further damage. It would definitely be a fun game to watch though. I just don't think it takes a very good or smart team to be able to exploit that. I mean Ryan Fitzpatrick ccan put up 200 yards in the air when he doesn't know what's coming. I think they absolutely crush.

Something I would want to know though is do the Bills know a week in advance taht they will be omniscient? Or do they find out on gameday? In other words, do they have time to really play offensive plays around certain blitzes or not?

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what if michael jordan were to have played his entire career from a lazy boy recliner? how many ppg? championships?

ditka vs god in a game of golf?

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