Why the new playoff overtime rules are beyond stupid

[Nav22]

A coin toss should not effect the outcome of an event at which hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake!!

Then you should hate the new rules, in which the coin toss winner will choose to kick off and enjoy a bigger advantage than ever before.

 

[gmb1]

Overtime rule change was needed, but they should alter it even more and go to a college style OT

Might as well do it that way

 

[Smashin222]

Let's say the advantage under the previous system was 70/30, meaning 70% of an "advantage" to the receiving team, 30% for the kicking team.

Okay, that's not great. But at least there are pros and cons for each side.

But the NEW system has made it 100/0 in the opposite direction. Because there is zero logical benefit to starting with the ball, since your opponent will have every opportunity on Earth to match (or beat!) whatever it is you do.

Smart teams will absolutely choose to kick off to start OT in the playoffs now. It's a bigger advantage than receiving first used to be.

You're dramatically overstating the benefit of kicking first. But even if there is some advantage, that compared to the prior advantage of receiving first simply pales in comparison. Just because the decision is made easier doesn't mean the rule change makes things less fair. A dominant strategy that always provides a 51/49 advantage is preferable to a system that randomly assigns a 70/30 advantage. That's like core to the idea of fairness.

 

[Smashin222]

Then you should hate the new rules, in which the coin toss winner will choose to kick off and enjoy a bigger advantage than ever before.

It's not at all a bigger advantage than ever before. This isn't theoretical, we already have data on this and your hysterics are unjustified.

"According to the Stathead database, there have been a little over 160 overtime games under the current rules for winning in overtime (including the postseason). The team that got the ball first has won 52% of the time. The team that kicked off has won 42% of the time. The rest were ties, which happens in regular season games when no one scores during the now 10-minute overtime period.

These rules differ from those in college football; rules which are arguably fairer than the NFL's.

In college football, each team — regardless of who wins the overtime coin toss — gets a chance to go on offense from the other's 25 yard-line in the first overtime.

Whereas, in the NFL, teams hope to win the coin toss and win the game at the first time of asking, in the collegiate game, the team that wins the toss usually decides to go on defense first because they will know if the other team scored a touchdown, a field goal or failed to score. Based on that, the team that goes second can choose to be more or less aggressive when they get on offense.

According to data from Oklahoma State's Rick Wilson, a professor at the Spears School of Business, and through some research of box scores from Sports Reference, there have been nearly 300 overtime games involving Division I Football Bowl Subdivision teams from 2013-2021.

The team that received the ball second won 49.7% of the time since 2013, or right about 50% of the time."

https://www.wmur.com/article/the-nf...-and-why-fans-want-to-see-it-changed/38867972

 

[CowboysExchange]

Do they win if the other team throws a pick 6

Asking for a friend

 

[zack]

Go to the poor side of town in your city and repeat those words.

The poor people that you mention on that side of the town are not soft…

 

[Nav22]

It's not at all a bigger advantage than ever before. This isn't theoretical, we already have data on this and your hysterics are unjustified.

"According to the Stathead database, there have been a little over 160 overtime games under the current rules for winning in overtime (including the postseason). The team that got the ball first has won 52% of the time. The team that kicked off has won 42% of the time. The rest were ties, which happens in regular season games when no one scores during the now 10-minute overtime period.

These rules differ from those in college football; rules which are arguably fairer than the NFL's.

In college football, each team — regardless of who wins the overtime coin toss — gets a chance to go on offense from the other's 25 yard-line in the first overtime.

Whereas, in the NFL, teams hope to win the coin toss and win the game at the first time of asking, in the collegiate game, the team that wins the toss usually decides to go on defense first because they will know if the other team scored a touchdown, a field goal or failed to score. Based on that, the team that goes second can choose to be more or less aggressive when they get on offense.

According to data from Oklahoma State's Rick Wilson, a professor at the Spears School of Business, and through some research of box scores from Sports Reference, there have been nearly 300 overtime games involving Division I Football Bowl Subdivision teams from 2013-2021.

The team that received the ball second won 49.7% of the time since 2013, or right about 50% of the time."

https://www.wmur.com/article/the-nf...-and-why-fans-want-to-see-it-changed/38867972

Are you aware that the NFL rules aren't the same as college football's rules?

What exactly is this article supposed to prove?

Is there sudden death after each team gets 1 possession in college football?

Do teams kick off to start OT in college football? Or do they already start in FG range?

 

[coult44]

Then you should hate the new rules, in which the coin toss winner will choose to kick off and enjoy a bigger advantage than ever before.

Like I said…

 

[Zekeats]

Pretty soon the NFL will act like a little league and everyone will get a super bowl trophy.