Changes to sports

[triplemultiplex]

Baseball is the only sport where it's worthwhile to have a retractable roof.

Soccer as well, though some of the newer megabuilds/renovations have opted for a field that retracts instead. It can be played in heavy rain or snow, but it's far from comfortable and sometimes can be unsafe for players.

Hmm, I thought they were like football and they play regardless of weather (minus like lightening or whatever).
Isn't a rule that they HAVE to play on real grass?  I thought I heard that at some point but don't know for sure because, well, I don't care about soccer.

[Big John]

^ The men's World Cup has to be on grass (2019 women's world cup in Canada was all artificial turf) Otherwise FIFA doesn't have a grass manndate.

[mgk920]

I think Ford Field in Detroit was built right. Not only does it host Lions games but it has hosted college basketball games including the Final Four.  They say that Detroit is the only sports city in America that has all of its sports stadiums downtown.

Aaron Rodgers nearly hit Ford Field's roof structure on a  pass play against the Lions a few seasons ago.

Mike

[hbelkins]

Get rid of conference tournaments in college basketball. NCAA tournament autobids go to regular season champs. It's stupid that a team from a small conference can dominate all year, but one bad game in the conference tourney denies them a bid in favor of a team that might as well have intentionally lost all their games in the regular season. Make the games matter.

I can relate, especially for the mid-major conferences that will only get one team in the tournament. It's hard for me to believe that the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in Evansville is going to be a big revenue producer.

My alma mater just won the OVC regular season championship outright since 1984. Morehead State has made a couple of NCAA tournaments in the intervening years, and the Eagles were lucky enough to win both the regular season and conference tournament championships in '84 after winning the OVC tournament the year prior, but it's entirely possible this year that the team could slip up in the tournament and then not even get an NIT bid.

Surely the TV money the OVC will get paid for  the championship game being on one of the ESPN channels can't bring in THAT much money to justify a conference tournament.

And as I feared, my MSU Eagles lost in the OVC Tournament, and the reward for a regular-season championship is a date in the NIT, probably to go be cannon fodder for some major conference team's home tourney opener (NIT games are played at host school sites up until the semi-finals and finals at MSG in NYC).

[Roadgeekteen]

Get rid of conference tournaments in college basketball. NCAA tournament autobids go to regular season champs. It's stupid that a team from a small conference can dominate all year, but one bad game in the conference tourney denies them a bid in favor of a team that might as well have intentionally lost all their games in the regular season. Make the games matter.

I can relate, especially for the mid-major conferences that will only get one team in the tournament. It's hard for me to believe that the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in Evansville is going to be a big revenue producer.

My alma mater just won the OVC regular season championship outright since 1984. Morehead State has made a couple of NCAA tournaments in the intervening years, and the Eagles were lucky enough to win both the regular season and conference tournament championships in '84 after winning the OVC tournament the year prior, but it's entirely possible this year that the team could slip up in the tournament and then not even get an NIT bid.

Surely the TV money the OVC will get paid for  the championship game being on one of the ESPN channels can't bring in THAT much money to justify a conference tournament.

And as I feared, my MSU Eagles lost in the OVC Tournament, and the reward for a regular-season championship is a date in the NIT, probably to go be cannon fodder for some major conference team's home tourney opener (NIT games are played at host school sites up until the semi-finals and finals at MSG in NYC).

MSU was 21-11. Not exactly a world beater.

[Poiponen13]

This would be interesting:


There would be played every year a MLB Game in purpose-built baseball stadium in Inuvik on summer solstice. This game would be called MLB at Midnight Sun and take place at 10.00pm local time. And there would be NHL game on same place on winter solstice, called NHL at Polar Night.

[WillWeaverRVA]

This would be interesting:


There would be played every year a MLB Game in purpose-built baseball stadium in Inuvik on summer solstice. This game would be called MLB at Midnight Sun and take place at 10.00pm local time. And there would be NHL game on same place on winter solstice, called NHL at Polar Night.

what

[Poiponen13]

This would be interesting:


There would be played every year a MLB Game in purpose-built baseball stadium in Inuvik on summer solstice. This game would be called MLB at Midnight Sun and take place at 10.00pm local time. And there would be NHL game on same place on winter solstice, called NHL at Polar Night.

what

To have late-night game under bright skies north of Arctic Circle.

[kphoger]

FWIW...

https://spectacularnwt.com/events/billy-joss-open-celebrity-golf-tournament

[WillWeaverRVA]

This would be interesting:


There would be played every year a MLB Game in purpose-built baseball stadium in Inuvik on summer solstice. This game would be called MLB at Midnight Sun and take place at 10.00pm local time. And there would be NHL game on same place on winter solstice, called NHL at Polar Night.

what

To have late-night game under bright skies north of Arctic Circle.

but why

[Poiponen13]

This would be interesting:


There would be played every year a MLB Game in purpose-built baseball stadium in Inuvik on summer solstice. This game would be called MLB at Midnight Sun and take place at 10.00pm local time. And there would be NHL game on same place on winter solstice, called NHL at Polar Night.

what

To have late-night game under bright skies north of Arctic Circle.

but why

Because the game would be sellout.

[triplemultiplex]

Walruses love baseball.

[Poiponen13]

Walruses love baseball.

What does that mean? Inuvik game would be good.

[kphoger]

Because the game would be sellout.

If you build the stadium with only 1000 seats, then maybe.

Walruses love baseball.

What does that mean? Inuvik game would be good.

A typical baseball stadium, such as what was recently built in Wichita, would have enough seating for nearly the entire population of Iqaluit.  |triplemultiplex| is assuming that some people would, you know, go to work or something like that instead.  Therefore, for it to be a sellout, the rest of the seats would need to be occupied by walruses.

[mgk920]

Speaking of that, it's almost time for the annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Fairbanks, AK, first pitch at 00:01.



Mike

[Alps]

Speaking of that, it's almost time for the annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Fairbanks, AK, first pitch at 00:01.



Mike

There's 2 hours of night in Fairbanks tonight. They should move this north to the Circle.

[NWI_Irish96]

Speaking of that, it's almost time for the annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Fairbanks, AK, first pitch at 00:01.



Mike

There's 2 hours of night in Fairbanks tonight. They should move this north to the Circle.

Sunset is at 00:47 and sunrise at 02:57, if the game is long enough, it could start in daylight, play through the entire "night" and end in daylight.

[Poiponen13]

Football: some lower leagues would play midweek rounds.
Soccer: there would be leagues of 24 teams playing 46 games. These leagues would play in winter and play many midweek rounds. US Open Cup would be played on weekends.

[Poiponen13]

Baseball should play just twice in a week, in some weeks just once. There would be 50 games in MLB regular season.

[thspfc]

Baseball should play just twice in a week, in some weeks just once. There would be 50 games in MLB regular season.

This is probably your best suggestion ever, but it will never happen due to $$$. As is, there are simply way too many games to make any individual game worth watching.

"Crushing loss last night for the Red Sox, as they fall 4 games back in the wild card race. They've only got 83 more chances to make up for it."

[Poiponen13]

Baseball should play just twice in a week, in some weeks just once. There would be 50 games in MLB regular season.

This is probably your best suggestion ever, but it will never happen due to $$$. As is, there are simply way too many games to make any individual game worth watching.

"Crushing loss last night for the Red Sox, as they fall 4 games back in the wild card race. They've only got 83 more chances to make up for it."

MLB should take some "cooldown" breaks in season when there are few consecutive days without games and the players are in their homes. Also, there should be single-table round-robin minor baseball leagues where teams play in e.g. 12 team league every other team 11 times for a total of 132 games.

[Bruce]

Football: some lower leagues would play midweek rounds.
Soccer: there would be leagues of 24 teams playing 46 games. These leagues would play in winter and play many midweek rounds. US Open Cup would be played on weekends.

Considering that the current MLS schedule (34 reg season + at least 2 LC + at least 1 USOC) is already taxing enough...are you trying to kill these players? The league already has to play through international breaks to make the schedule work, so a lot of teams would suffer.

And playing through winter is dumb. We've got snowy cities and outdoor stadiums.

[kphoger]

And playing through winter is dumb. We've got snowy cities and outdoor stadiums.

The Buffalo Bills are having a good chuckle over that.

[SectorZ]

And playing through winter is dumb. We've got snowy cities and outdoor stadiums.

The Buffalo Bills are having a good chuckle over that.

Wrong football...

[kphoger]

And playing through winter is dumb. We've got snowy cities and outdoor stadiums.

The Buffalo Bills are having a good chuckle over that.

Wrong football...

That's why they're laughing so hard.