Lol. I get it. I just have a tough time with a hypothetical being the reason the OT rules didn’t work.I know. I regret saying anything. I had silently calmed my rage and the OP knocked me out of my coma.
Agree with your argument, and it does settle it because of how it is. Who's to say the other team doesn't March down and score also. Maybe have mandatory 2 pt conversions.I have a hard time getting upset that a defense can’t stop someone from going 75 yards. Maybe if it was college and the team started from the 25 and if they scored a TD it was over, I would be mad. I watched the Chiefs have about 20 yards of offense in the first half, then let the Patriots convert third and long over and over again in overtime, but Chiefs fans blame the OT rules.
The NFL OT is a product of people crying about player safety. So until people quit over emphasizing CTE and other things, that’s going to be tough to change.
I have a hard time getting upset that a defense can’t stop someone from going 75 yards. Maybe if it was college and the team started from the 25 and if they scored a TD it was over, I would be mad. I watched the Chiefs have about 20 yards of offense in the first half, then let the Patriots convert third and long over and over again in overtime, but Chiefs fans blame the OT rules.
The NFL OT is a product of people crying about player safety. So until people quit over emphasizing CTE and other things, that’s going to be tough to change.
College OT is my favorite out of all the major sports, I really hope they dont screw with it. How often do games go past 2 OTs anyway?
It not mattering is why I roll my eyes. It’s like a 54% win rate in the NFL and 52% in college.I'd sure like to see these numbers. Are they out there somewhere?
1) College correlation between winning the OT coin toss and winning the game.
2) NFL correlation between winning the OT coin toss and winning the game.
"It's just when you go beyond two (overtime possessions), it's too much."
Well maybe this is too simple, but given this, why not play it as is and then after two possessions each in OT, if it is still tied, it is a tie!
Found this which was interesting regarding regular season OT in the NFL. There's simply not enough data to draw conclusions on playoff games as the author points out.I'd sure like to see these numbers. Are they out there somewhere?
1) College correlation between winning the OT coin toss and winning the game.
2) NFL correlation between winning the OT coin toss and winning the game.
Because someone was arguing that playoff games are different from regular season and so I shouldn't include ties (I honestly don't know what the argument is on why ties should be omitted, but whatever), I omitted playoff games and looked solely at the regular season. Note that there are 8 playoff games and 7 have been won by the team with the first possession (5 by opening drive TDs). Definitely not a big enough sample size to say anything there, but we can look at the regular season games alone:
Regular Season (110 OT games):
(excuse the rounding error adding up to 100.1%)
- Wins by team that possesses the ball first: 52 (47.3%)
- Of these wins, 18 were on an opening drive TD (34.6% of team with first possession wins, 16.4% overall overtime games)
- Wins by team that possesses the ball second: 51 (46.4%)
- Ties: 7 (6.4%)