Correct. Any shot by the fouled player (apart from a shot he was making at the time he got fouled (think of normal continuation rules here)) voids the advantage rule. So basically a fouled player will still take an easy lay-up or a dunk, but if it's gonna be any sort of low efficiency shot he can just opt to take the called foul.

Doesn't that just give an extra incentive to foul?

Instead of a DH just go to an 8 man batting order, no pitchers.

Iosing possession via turnover or missed shot or offensive foul while advantage is on should end the play and the original foul is enforced. Advantage ends after a score or when shot clock resets and fouled team retains possession.

No, it does the opposite. It makes it so the act of committing a foul can never help the fouling team and never hurt the fouled team. The fouled team either comes out even or ahead.

This doesn't work because then anytime their is a foul at the half court the fouled player can instantly just shoot and is freerolling (if he makes it the basket counts, if he misses it the shot is retracted and the foul is enforced.) This overly punishes legitimate fouls in the course of play (at a time when lots of players are already being criticized for drawing too many ticky tack fouls.

The fouls I'm trying to target are the ones where a team has, say, a 2 on 1 fast break and will easily score a layup or dunk, so the defender just fouls the ball handler at halfcourt.

Do you think they'll ever come up with a reasonable way to get rid of excessive fouling at the end of close NBA games? I don't want to deny the trailing team any way to come back, but sometimes after the fourth foul in the last 30s it feels like the system is broken.

I know it's been mentioned that they could implement a rule where the fouled team gets the option of just taking the ball OOB again, but that would lead to non-stop fouls on the inbound while only ~.5s goes off the clock every time (and once in a while the defense will get lucky and actually steal the ball and get rewarded for this).

What about something like this: In the final minute, teams are allowed one quick foul, after that, any reach-in foul committed within, say, 5s of the inbound pass is treated like a flagrant, where the fouled team gets two shots plus possession. This still allows for some chances for the trailing team, but the clock will be drained much quicker.

Imagine Shaq with this rule.

Couldn't you just add a run off? Fouled teams gets the FTs or the ball OOB and a 5 sec. run off. Pretty quickly defines a max number of fouls in the last 30 seconds.

third (or more) consecutive foul by a team is a flagrant

Yeah the 5s runoff would work fine as well and be simpler. I guess I was trying to avoid adding a whole new thing (time runoffs) that hadn't existed in the game before.

Three consecutive fouls thing is decent too, would have to make it a last two minutes rule or something though. Otherwise would lead to a lot of WTF when a team happens to commit 3 straight fouls like 4 minutes apart in the middle of the first half and the other team starts shooting technicals.

Football: Defense can have one of its players on stilts in the end zone to try to block FGs. Stilts can be as tall as you want, but he has to balance on them upright. (Cannot just lay in the endzone and put stilts up in the air to try to block the ball.) If he touches the goal posts or falls through them, the FG is good no matter what. If he catches the ball, he’s allowed to leave the end zone on stilts to return it.

yeah. only applicable in last two minutes, same trigger as being able to review out of bounds plays.

nba - teams can retain only one player at the end of the season, remaining roster is sent back to the draft pool.

football - "throw-away zone"

On both sides of the field, there would be a small group of players from each team, positioned out of bounds in a designated throw away zone. balls thrown out of bounds but to this area can be caught or intercepted. If caught, offense gets 10yds and 1st down, if intercepted same thing but for intercepting team.

Basketball

I'd get rid of being allowed to throw the ball off a player as hard as possible from 2 feet away to get the OOB ricochet. Should be reviewable for flagrant. People will say it's an unintentional basketball play but passive-aggressive instigator dickheads like Chris Paul seem to do it a lot.

I don’t like cp but I think throwing the ball as hard as possible is often the right play as it makes it harder for a player to catch.

I realize it is often done to the side or back and you have ricochets but ultimately throwing it as hard as possible seems like the best way to achieve your goal.

NBA- The ball is on fire

a slight improvement over chris paul openly nut punching people

Is there an actual reason why there are 20 million timeouts in basketball

Definitely this. Just play the game.

Eliminate the intentional walk: 4-pitch walks push base runners as if there was already an imaginary runner on 1st.

So if a guy is on second, he gets pushed to 3rd, 2nd and 3rd both get pushed. All other situations proceed as normal. Pushing a guy home from 3rd as the only base runner seems extreme. But I could be talked into it. I hate the intentional walk.

If a pitcher gets one strike then fine, they can intentionally throw balls after that.

Everyone will ignore this. Then like a month later someone else will bring it up and be met with great fanfare on their brilliant idea.

But I am not questioning whether it's the right strategic play. My point is that it doesn't matter because it's a dangerous bull**** play that shouldn't exist. Like what do you think happens if CP3 bounces one dodgeball style off Rondo's face? Is that just a play on? Because he's gonna get ****ing murdered if he does it and rightfully so.

And right on cue.

Screw you guys, I'm gonna find some other forum to throw my pearls of genius at.

This seems right. It’s the same reason that hard fouls are now flagrantly. They are often the right strategic play (I.e. foul hard enough so they can’t get off a shot) but due to injury/fight risk they now receive extra punishment to deter them.