Anything that puts the best hitters at the plate more often would improve baseball. There's no reason the best hitters should only bat 4 times in an entire game, and no good reason why they should have to wait while everyone else hits before they get another chance. It's not like a plate appearance is so exhausting that you need an hour before you can take another one.

The reason that all position players have to bat of course has nothing to do with fatigue.

Yeah let's not make a fundamental change to the sport that's part of what actually makes it interesting from a team building and balance and strategy standpoint. While we're at it, why don't we let NBA teams always send the 90% FT shooter to the line any time any player is fouled.

Free throws are the worst and most boring part of basketball. Hack-a-Shaq was the NBA equivalent to international walking a great baseball hitter, except in the case of Hack-a-Shaq, it was the players own fault that he created a winning strategy for the opponent.

A better comparison is that in basketball games, your best scorers take more shots than lesser players. The 5 players on the court are not forced to have equal ball touches, or equal shots. And the star players also play far more minutes than the role players. This allows the star players to showcase their talents for the fans.

In baseball, you can have the greatest player of all time, but fam motivation to come see this player isn't particularly inspiring. You'll only see Bonds or Ohtani bat 4 times per game. If a player is too good, like Bonds was briefly, the opponent can simply deny the fans the ability to see him play at all. Thus baseball is a game that fails to showcase it's most talented players, and wastes it's best product. This is why the NBA has so many big stars, while MLB has very few. Outside of Ohtani, there isn't a single current baseball star that is legitimately famous.

I agree that baseball is an interesting and strategic sport. It's been my favourite sport for most of my life though I mostly lost interest in the last 10 years. But it's failure to showcase its talent is a major flaw in the game. As it is, when one of the major sports completely falls off the map in the future, my money is definitely on it being baseball unless the game makes major changes to that flaw.

Bowling shouldnt have a maximum score. You should go until you miss.

In large-entry season-long NFL best-ball tournaments (e.g. on DraftKings & Underdog), get rid of the advancement structure where you're assigned to a random pool after the fantasy regular season.

For instance:

Weeks 1-14: top 2/12 or 1/12 advance - you still need to first beat the folks you drafted with!

Week 15: instead of being assigned to random 12-person pools, just have the top 10% of week 15 scores advance to week 16

Week 16: instead of being assigned to random 12-person pools, just have the top 10% of week 16 scores advance to week 17

Week 17: same as usual for final week

new rule (any sport): when you defeat someone in the playoffs you may select 1 opposing player to join for team for the remainder of the post-season

In basketball, hard fouls and technical fouls on the coach result in Non offending team shooting free throws until they miss.

Worst idea of all time. It's entirely possible that a guy like Curry could make 30+ free throws in a row.

Soccer. Penalty takers should be forced to put the ball on the actual centre of the spot rather than on the very edge of it. No other reason than it annoys me.

NBA Overtime replaced by a 5 vs 5 rapid chess match.

On impending shot clock violations, I think the referees should be able to play advantage like they do in soccer. There is nothing more frustrating than when your team plays great defense and blocks a shot or pokes the ball away as the shot clock expires, and then the referee blows the whistle for a shot clock violation just as your defense is about to collect the ball for an obvious run out.

MLB: Remove intentional walks completely at the batter's discretion. Remove the automatic IBB, and allow the batter, if pitched ball 4, to instead choose to remove a strike from the count. If the pitcher pitches a ball on a 3-0 count, it's a balk. If there is no one on base, the batter can choose anyone to throw them one meatball home run derby style before the next real pitch.

I think the real solution is to just make it so that anytime a batter draws a walk, the team can choose to put any bench player on 1st base, and the batter starts over. Same for HBP obviously.

Pitching around hitters should not be a viable strategy. It basically just denies the opportunity for the best players to perform, and the real losers are the fans.

Just imagine a theoretical hitter so good that he was walked 100% of the time. It's a flaw in the rules of the game that a player can be so good that the other team doesn't let him hit at all. If a batter significantly better than steroid Bonds ever comes along, the fans will be robbed and there will be no highlights of him.

Holy **** Carnivore, I love that idea. Let's start an online petition.

The DR (designated runners) would be already waiting and ready to run during the at bats so it wouldn't slow the game at all.

Sports are for entertainment, and rules are often added or changed as needed. Basketball didn't always have a shot clock, or a goaltending rule. Then they realized they needed those rules, and added them.

Baseball missed that boat on walks 100+ years ago. Guys like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Barry Bonds should not have the walk be their most common batting result.

NBA: shot clock is 10 seconds for any possession starting with fewer than 60
seconds in 4Q/OT. Maybe only if deficit is single digits.

Why? Are we just trying to make the outcome of basketball games more random?

Elam Ending still the superior idea to make basketball endgames bearable. They'll never do it because everybody loves a buzzer-beater, but IMO it's just as exciting to see a team go on like a 12-0 run to win with the other team stuck one point away from the target, or a long tense finish with both teams 1-2 points away and playing actual defense.

Nascar playoff season finale:

Assuming a 36 driver field. Have a daytime race, normal distance, but with only the 32 cars not in the championship 4.

Have a nighttime race with only the championship 4. It removes all the possible shenanigans that come in to play where eliminated drivers can still manipulate the outcome; by causing cautions at the right time for their teammates, or the wrong time for their competitors, by blocking cars on pit lane, by wrecking a playoff driver, etc. Just the final 4, no outside nonsense. And it eliminates Nascar officials from the equation as well, where sometimes they throw a caution for a slow car on the apron, and sometimes they don't, etc. Try it one year. It might be a complete dud of an idea. Or it might be amazing.

Bring back 15 rounds for the biggest boxing matches. Get rid of replay in everything but tennis.

This one specifically to reduce the trope where a team is down 4-10 with under a minute left and instantly fouls every defensive possession. Still thinking of how to fix the team up 3 fouling situation.

NFL essentially expands time last 5 minutes of games, stopping clock on OOB plays. This gives team behind a better chance of winning than if the game clock functioned normally. I have never heard anyone criticizing that as being unfair to the leading team.

Shortening 24 second clock achieves basically the same thing, i.e. adding more possessions in the same time frame.

Please noodle on it a bit and let us know where you land

Easy. All fouls outside the 3 point area in the final 30 seconds are 3 shot fouls, instead of 2.