OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

[The King]

The playoff OT rule is now applicable during the regular season.

Score a TD and win, kick a FG the opponent gets a shot.

[ddaryl]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

seems weird to me. If the opposing team gets a shot for a FG they should get a shot for a TD to.

[ServoBillieves]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

McNabb rule in effect...

[stuckincincy]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

McNabb rule in effect...

Political Correctness rule now in effect...

[Historian]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

Go back to ties....

[zone]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

Much more exciting that way.

[PromoTheRobot]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

I don't know why it's so freaking hard for people to get that both teams should have offense on the field at least once. You don't end baseball games if a team scores in the top of extra innings.

PTR

[ghz in pittsburgh]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

I don't know why it's so freaking hard for people to get that both teams should have offense on the field at least once. You don't end baseball games if a team scores in the top of extra innings.

PTR

Baseball is not a fluid, dynamic game. When you in defense, you are not allowed to go offense and score runs.

[BLeonard]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

I don't mind the rule one way or the other. Sudden death, as it was in the past, was fine with me and I'm also fine with the "Need a TD to win on first posession" rule that they have in place now.

The issue I had was the rule not being the same for Regular Season and playoff games. If you can win a Regular Season game by kicking a FG on the first posession in OT, you should be able to win a Post Season game that way as well. At least now, the rules are the same across the board.

In a perfect world, I'd like to see them do OT like they do basketball. Instead of 5 minutes or football, though, make it 10 minutes. If a team can keep the ball for that long and kick a FG as time expires, they deserve to win.

My major gripe was having different rules for regular Season and Playoffs... At least that's been fixed.

-Bill

[BLeonard]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

I don't know why it's so freaking hard for people to get that both teams should have offense on the field at least once. You don't end baseball games if a team scores in the top of extra innings.

PTR

But, a hockey game could end if a team wins the OT faceoff, goes right in and scores a goal... The team that didn't win the faceoff never had a shot on offense in that situation, either.

-Bill

[OpIv37]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

When I hear those complicated OT rules, all I can think of is

"Don't do what Donny Don't Does: the 10 Do's and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety."

http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/The_10_Dos_and_500_Don%27ts_of_Knife_Safety

[ServoBillieves]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

When I hear those complicated OT rules, all I can think of is

"Don't do what Donny Don't Does: the 10 Do's and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety."

http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/The_10_...f_Knife_Safety

Ernest Borgnine approves.

[PromoTheRobot]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

But, a hockey game could end if a team wins the OT faceoff, goes right in and scores a goal... The team that didn't win the faceoff never had a shot on offense in that situation, either.

-Bill

Baseball is not a fluid, dynamic game. When you in defense, you are not allowed to go offense and score runs.

True, but in hockey teams play offense and defense at the same time.

In football they call the defense "the defense" because it's their main job to prevent scoring, not put up points. Hence, if a football team loses because the other team scores on the first possession it is not an even game. The team that got to play offense first gets a huge advantage.

PTR

[BLeonard]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

True, but in hockey teams play offense and defense at the same time.

In football they call the defense "the defense" because it's their main job to prevent scoring, not put up points. Hence, if a football team loses because the other team scores on the first possession it is not an even game. The team that got to play offense first gets a huge advantage.

PTR

Like I said, I'm fine with it either way, as long as it is consistent in all games played. If you can win one way on OT during the regular season, that shouldn't change in postseason. That was my major issue.

But, I don't think there was a s big of an advantage to winning the coin toss as you believe. IIRC, the team that won a coin toss had a 52% chance of winning the game and only about a 30% chance of winning on their first posession. Now, that percentage, I believe, went up when the kickoff was moved from the 35 to the 30... But, now that it's back at the 35, I'd think the numbers would go back to around the same numbers as I stated above.

Ultimately, I don't think it's a big of an issue as many think it is. Hell, in 2010, the Bills played in 3 OT games, none of them ended on the first posession (meaning both teams had the ball) and they still lost all three.

This only covers from 1974-2003, but gives a decent look at OT games: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_perce...ime_in_the_NFL

The NFL has had 325 overtime games since the rule was adopted in 1974. The results:
•Both teams have had possession 235 times (72.3%).
•The team that has won the toss has won 169 times (52.0%).
•The team that has lost the toss has won 141 times (43.4%).
•223 games were decided by a field goal (68.6%).
•86 games were decided by a TD (26.5%).
•One game was decided by a safety (0.3%).
•There have been 15 ties (4.6%).

So, in 325 OT games, only 90 of them ended with only one team having posession of the ball. That's 27.7%... Now, keep in mind, some of those games ended with the team scoring a TD on their first drive, whch would end the game with this new rule as well. So, the number of times where a team wn the toss and simply kicked a FG to win on their first drive is likely below 25% and could be closer to 20%.

Again, like I said, doesn't bother me either way, as long as the rules are the same for every game, regular season or playoffs.

-Bill

[MattyNH]

Re: OT Rule Officially adopted for Regular Season

I am fine with the rule but what I dont get is why they did just playoffs last year and now are doing regular season too. There was no big event or anything. It is like they woke up and got some common sense...if its good for the playoffs it is good for any game....I didnt get why they said just playoffs last year!