If we're on the topic of racing, removing the double points awarded at the last F1 race would definitely improve it

Don't forget the green shells, red shells, and blue shells.

NASCAR effectively went to a playoff season with the chase though.

I mean I think their old system where they play the Super Bowl first and reward the regular season is way better, but if they do want a OMG CHAMPIONSHIP RACE to end the season, 2014 methods seem decent enough.

NASCAR never played the super bowl first. That was just marketing hype given the recency of football's super bowl and the attraction of a super speedway along with the biggest purse of the year. It was and still is a single race variance fest.

Are you trying to argue that the Daytona 500 isn't their single biggest event of the year? It's not the Super Bowl in terms of championships or anything, but if there's a "most important race" that's it- right?

that is correct

nascar has really always been like golf or tennis where winning individual events matters more than a "season". dont pay much attention to the new format

Yes it's the most important race because it's raining money. Not because championships.

Golf instituted a playoff format with the FedEx Cup. Thing is, no one really cares about the FedEx Cup. The players sure care about the $10M, but the general public cares more about majors. (I'd bet a lot more people know that Rory won two majors than can tell you who won the 2014 FedEx Cup.)

But the NASCAR championship always had at least some importance to fans. I'm only a casual fan, but I know that Petty and Dale Sr have 7 championships. I can't tell you how many Daytona's they won.

That ending in Ole Miss game was tragic. That tackle should be considered a horse tackle. Defender is well below the runner and pulls down on his jersey resulting in a fumble and a broken leg.

I'm pretty sure that's a horse tackle by NFL rule. I don't know if it should have been a horse collar by college rule but I suspect it should have been flagged.

This might be the college rule?

If that's the actual rule then I guess it was properly a non-call. For those who have not seen the play the Auburn player was low and pulled down Treadwell by grabbing the jersey just above his belt so it was as low as you can get without pulling him down by his pants. It was no where near the collar or shoulder pads. If the Auburn player had just run into the back of him low and grabbed him around the waist to pull him back and down the same injury could have happened and that's legal if dangerous. I hope the kid makes a full recovery and gets drafted in the first round.

The tackle had a result that made the ball carrier go down like he was horse collared and I wouldn't be opposed to flagging any tackle that results in a horse collar like action even if the tackle is otherwise completely legal.

That's not a minor change.

I'd say this is the definitive post on this topic.

I wish the PBA would do something like the old high roller tournament, have qualifying locations for anyone and have some absurd 500k first place for 1 game, would make for good tv.

We've been discussing the legal grounding out of the pocket ITT and SF almost wins a game because of this bs rule. 1 yard line 15 sec left no TO's left. Kaep rolls out can't run it no one open so just chuck it into the seats, what an awful rule. So much different if he has to run it or make an attempt to complete the pass. Saw Wilson do this 3 or 4 times today too. Can't run so blatantly throw it OB. Complete freeroll.

Never understood why a 10 yd penalty and a 5 yd penalty offset. Should be 5 yds net

Clean hands. The rules are designed to reward teams that don't commit fouls every bit as much as they are designed to punish teams that do. If you commit a live ball foul, in addition to being subject to a yardage penalty, you also lose the rights to enforce a penalty against your opponent that occurred during the same live ball period, and you lose rights of first touching.

NBA draft

Instead of the current system where teams are given a percentage of lottery balls based on record, have teams receive their lottery balls based on their longest win streak during the season.

If all the non playoff teams had win steaks ranging from 3 games to 7 for example, it would even out the lottery draft I think and devalue blatantly tanking games. It gives teams an incentive to string wins together to increase their chances at the top draft pick. Obviously I haven't thought of all the logistics and I'm sure there would be some debate over the fringe playoff teams and the 8th seed but it's better than watching Philly lose 10 games in a row without caring.

For NBA Finals, combined score of both games played vs each other during the regular season determines who has home court advantage

Would be preventative measure for benching players in matchups between top teams and make those games more meaningful

Sorry if this has been brought up already, but for team sports with drafts, why not award picks in order of best to worst finishing non-playoff team? And then fill from worst to best finishing playoff team (heck even best to worst playoff team sounds OK to me, not that winning a playoff needs any more motivation).

because then in a lot of cases the terrible teams would struggle to ever improve

But teams can improve w free agency too, not just w a draft. Isn't there less incentive to get better through free agency if bad teams get higher picks?

Depends on the sport, in hockey going from bad to goof through FA I'd pretty much impossible

Goof

an NFL official in the press-box/watching from HQ should be able to pick up bad flags called when a receiver takes a big hit.

they happen so fast its nearly impossible for the ref to know exactly what happened, and as it stands now when it looks like you get hit by a truck, there's a penalty called. its not against the rules to be the truck as long you don't lead with your helmet and hit below the neck.