Fair enough. I haven't checked but offhand I would guess that basketball is high-scoring enough that ties are much less frequent, so it makes sense that that sport would be able to get away with OTs to the death. Re baseball, I totally get the argument from tradition, but at the end of the day it's a business, and one that has to adapt when market conditions change. If it doesn't, then there's eventually not much of an MLB organization left to be preserved.
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As a longtime Dodgers fan, I'm eager to see if they've figured out how to break the sport. Might need to move to randomized rule changes every year right at the beginning of the season, make it so unpredictable that teams can't just hoard all the talent because they won't know who's a "good" player in any given ruleset. 2026: misère!
I think it was inevitable -- by now most other sports have some sort of artificial overtime mechanism too (penalty shots, NCAA start on 25 yard line, NHL 3-on-3, etc). It's sort of like Southwest finally going to assigned seats because they can't miss out on seat upsell revenue anymore.
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Fair enough. I haven't checked but offhand I would guess that basketball is high-scoring enough that ties are much less frequent, so it makes sense that that sport would be able to get away with OTs to the death. Re baseball, I totally get the argument from tradition, but at the end of the day it's a business, and one that has to adapt when market conditions change. If it doesn't, then there's eventually not much of an MLB organization left to be preserved.
As a longtime Dodgers fan, I'm eager to see if they've figured out how to break the sport. Might need to move to randomized rule changes every year right at the beginning of the season, make it so unpredictable that teams can't just hoard all the talent because they won't know who's a "good" player in any given ruleset. 2026: misère!
I think it was inevitable -- by now most other sports have some sort of artificial overtime mechanism too (penalty shots, NCAA start on 25 yard line, NHL 3-on-3, etc). It's sort of like Southwest finally going to assigned seats because they can't miss out on seat upsell revenue anymore.