SIAP but 10 second and 8 second counts in basketball should not reset if timeouts are called.

Yeah, um...no.

the shot clock should reset after a jumpball that stays with the team previously on offense

NBA playoffs cut to 7 teams in each conference. The team with best record in each gets not only home court advantage, but also a first round bye as well as the option of picking one of the 3 winning teams as a second round opponent. NHL should also do something along those lines.

I'll just chime in with the ones that I like the best so far, and possibly add a few of my own.

1. Baseball: sliding into players/catchers/blocking the plate as a catcher to buy a little time.

Either stop all of that behavior by multiple game suspensions for the perpetrators, or allow them whenever they want but disallow them from wearing a batting helmet their next at-bat. If they get pulled from the game before batting, then they have to miss the next 5 games as well.

It's just ****ing ridiculous. If you want to allow people to slide into other players wielding their spikes as weapons, you may as well let them carry the bats with them too and remove the idea of a force out.

2. There needs to be an official clock in soccer. The whole stoppage time BS makes it impossible to know when the game is really going to be over.

3. Multi-game suspension for fighting in hockey. It's absolutely ridiculous.

4. I'm sick of the "second guy getting it called" crap that happens in basketball all the time, since the refs never see the first aggressor. It's like they pulled these morons in from professional wrestling or something and they intentionally miss obvious "guy punched other guy in the dick" calls. I'm basically saying that I have always hated John Stockton and his ilk. Anyhow, review every game after the fact, and for every intentional dickheadery that "should" have been called that was missed by a ref, they get a one game suspension.

oh hell no

I love this idea.

They need to do this for NFL playoffs too. Of course it would be annoying when a team says 'we're going to beat them because they disrespected us by choosing to play us.'

Five second violation on inbounds .. option to use a TO? And keep ball obv. Refs count so inconsistently. Apologize if mentioned earlier.

nfl needs to stop giving the 1-2-3 seeds to the 3 division winners
****ing denver at 8-8 won a 3 way tie to win their division and get home field over a 12-4 team, last year seatle had a home game and they went 7-9
this ****ty teams should be glad their divisions are a basket of age, they shouldnt be getting home field when they dont even belong in the playoffs

NBA has one of the dumbest rules in all of sports. It is advantageous for a team to commit a foul ("hack a Shaq" and the last few minutes of every close game). Teams purposefully foul the opposing team. When the foul is not called coaches get mad at the refs for not calling a foul on their own team. It makes the games unwatchable. Its like watching a worn out bad comedy skit that was not funny when written in the 1960's.

The NBA needs to change the rules so they are similar to every other sport. When the defense commits a foul, the play should not stop. The play should continue with the officials holding off on the call until there is a change of possession or the clock is stopped (ex. the ball goes out of bounds). The team with the ball should still have a chance to score and the penalty is awarded if they fail to score on the possession. NFL the official does not stop the game in the middle of a play and call a penalty on the defense (unless the defender has a clear shot to injure the QB). NFL teams get a free play sometimes out of the penalty. NHL refs don't call the penalty until there is a change of possession. Teams pull their goalie to gain a bigger advantage. Soccer refs let the play continue...

There should never be a reward for breaking the rules of the game. Especially not 10 times a game.

Here is another NBA rule that drives me nuts. The last few minutes of a close game if a team calls TO, they automatically get the ball at the opponents end of the court. They should get the ball nearest to the same place they called TO. To me, this rule is as dumb as if the NFL gave an automatic 10 yards and a 1st down if you called TO during the last 2 minutes of the game.

hockey has 1 TO. i think basketball may have a tad too many.

There haven't been 3 divisions in the NFL in like 20 years.

The 1 point for an OT loss in Hockey garbage needs to go. It's the dumbest thing ever. Either you win or lose. Also it makes OT games actually worth more (3 pts) than a regular game (2), the whole thing is stupid and no other sport does this and if they did the fans would riot.

I disagree. I think the division winners should get the top seeds. Here is why. If you are in a tough division with 4 good teams. You will likely have a tougher time winning as many games as a team in a weak division (A division winner might split games with each (tough opponent) going 3-3 in their division. While a wild card team from a division with 2 weak teams might easily go 5-1 in their division. Winning 4 easy games and spitting with the division champs). You should not penalize a team for winning a tough division and having a tough schedule.

I believe this is the reason the Giants are better prepared for SB runs then the Patriots. The Giants play in a division that has 4 teams fighting for the division title. For the past 10 years, the Patriots play in one of the weakest divisions in the NFL. The Patriots will win a lot more regular season games and are almost guaranteed a division championship before the season starts. But the Giants need to be a solid team just to make the playoffs.

yeah the west divisions were just so tough for seattle and denver to win

The worst team in the AFC West was the Chiefs. They were 7-9 and had won the division the year before. All 4 teams went 3-3 in the division. I'm not saying they were all great teams. I'm saying there was not a gimme game in the division.

yes

sadly thats unlikely to change for the better due to TV

sorry meant 4 division winners
the point still stands

this
its ****ing horrendous
if they want to give credit for losing which is bad enough as it is, regulation wins should be 3 points, ot wins should be 2 and ot losses should be 1
as it stands in tied games towards the end of regulation teams dont really try because they want to lock up the point first then go balls out in ot

get rid of divisions, play a balance schedule and take the top 6 teams and every problem you mentioned is solved

a lot of teams going 3-3 in a division doesnt mean the divsion is good, it means it probably sucks and most of the teams are almost equally bad
ocassionally it could be a tough division, as would happen when 3 teams go 3-3 in the division, and end up winning 10 or 11 games anyway (notice how in baseball the al east teams still win more games than almost every other team in baseball despite being in a hard division- they dont all play .500 against eachother and against the rest of the league)

youre rewarding bad teams like seatle and denver for having a garbage division twice- once by letting them in the playoffs when they are a joke and another by giving them home field


lol@ being better prepared for their superbowl run
when the patriots won their 3 sbs every game was a 3 point game,in the 2 games they lost to the giants they lost close hard fought games that could have gone either way
usually when you win a really close game you got more breaks, lucky plays etc and if you watched the last 2 sbs bw the giants and pats that was deifintly the case (as it was for for both the giants and pats in the conference championship games)
must also be nice to go 10-6 and 9-7 and get to play the game on a neutral site against a team that went 16-0 and 13-3
ill give the giants credit for winning lots of road games in the playoffs but thats another joke that needs to go
home field is so important in football yet it doesnt exist for the most important game of the year

I cant wait until a ****ty team like the dolphins goes 8-8, flukes their way to the superbowl (probably with a home game they dont deserve along the way) and gets to host it against some 14-2 team

Don't agree at all with your post above this one but agree with this 100%. Its ridiculous and a cheap attempt to make the end of games more exciting.

Incredible. Don't penalize a team for winning a division at 8-8 but penalize them for going 12-4 and not winning their division. Yeah, that's brilliant.

Take a look at the records vs non division opponents for all of the teams in the divisions with 8-8 winners vs 12-4 second place teams. I think you (are the only one who) will be surprised at the results.

Loose the offside rule in football for sure hehe

In F1 I think they should be allowed to re-fuel in races.

Don't punish fights as hardly in International Ice Hockey.

Punish "fakers" in football a lot more harshly. If you stay on the ground more than 10s and you don't have a real injury, yellow card.

This. So, so, This.

Think about it:

If the Penguins and Capitals play two wide open games and each team wins 5-3 and loses 5-3, they each get 2 points.

If the Oilers and Flames play two defensive games and twice grind into overtime 1-1 before splitting, they each get 3 points.

Which is better for the league? Which is the league encouraging?

In fact, the optimal strategy when two evenly matched teams play is to do nothing for 60 minutes and then play for the extra point. It's just asinine. When two teams compete for something that something shouldn't grow in value for any reason. And if it's going to, it should be the reverse...

In the EPL a win is worth 3 and a tie is worth 1 apiece. So by parking the bus and turning the contest into a defensive affair both teams are punished.

The most "fair" method for the NHL would be either to give the winner the 2 points no matter how they won, or make all games worth 3 points. How they could have messed this up when they implemented the shootout is startling. And it demonstrates just how backwards the league truly is.