Harvard @ Cornell, 12/2/2022

[nshapiro]

not sure you can lose by 1/2 a game the way it works..

You can if there are ties.

You can without ties. If the Mets finish 100-61 with a rained out game and the Braves finish 101-61 plus have the tiebreaker over the Mets, they might not bother making up game 162.

True.  Mets won division in 1973 at 82-79, at the time the worst winning record ever.  I don't know if it is still the worst for a division winner.

Edit- Sorry just looked it up and they won by 1  1/2 games, that is why they did not make it up.

[upprdeck]

not sure you can lose by 1/2 a game the way it works..

You can if there are ties.

You can without ties. If the Mets finish 100-61 with a rained out game and the Braves finish 101-61 plus have the tiebreaker over the Mets, they might not bother making up game 162.

i forgot there is no more play to win games in this new world of MLB.

[osorojo]

Basketball doesn't go to two-on-two when tied in regulation, nor does baseball go to four-on-four, nor does soccer go to three-on-three, as far as I know?

[Beeeej]

Basketball doesn't go to two-on-two when tied in regulation, nor does baseball go to four-on-four, nor does soccer go to three-on-three, as far as I know?

Fencing and Billiards should go to none-on-none when tied after regulation.

[Al DeFlorio]

Basketball doesn't go to two-on-two when tied in regulation, nor does baseball go to four-on-four, nor does soccer go to three-on-three, as far as I know?

Fencing and Billiards should go to none-on-none when tied after regulation.

Billiards could decide with a trick shot contest.  Fencing could just blindfold.

[Dafatone]

Basketball doesn't go to two-on-two when tied in regulation, nor does baseball go to four-on-four, nor does soccer go to three-on-three, as far as I know?

Fencing and Billiards should go to none-on-none when tied after regulation.

Billiards could decide with a trick shot contest.  Fencing could just blindfold.

If I recall correctly, fencing flips a coin, then goes next point wins, but if time runs out, the fencer who won the flip wins. Which is interesting.

[Trotsky]

If I recall correctly, fencing flips a coin, then goes next point wins, but if time runs out, the fencer who won the flip wins. Which is interesting.

Do they inform the fencers who won the flip?

In hockey have a tie.  In RS MLB have the home team win a tie because who cares?

[Dafatone]

If I recall correctly, fencing flips a coin, then goes next point wins, but if time runs out, the fencer who won the flip wins. Which is interesting.

Do they inform the fencers who won the flip?

They do. Would be entertaining if they didn't, though.

[Trotsky]

If I recall correctly, fencing flips a coin, then goes next point wins, but if time runs out, the fencer who won the flip wins. Which is interesting.

Do they inform the fencers who won the flip?

They do. Would be entertaining if they didn't, though.

Why do they?  It would be *much* better if they didn't.

[Dafatone]

If I recall correctly, fencing flips a coin, then goes next point wins, but if time runs out, the fencer who won the flip wins. Which is interesting.

Do they inform the fencers who won the flip?

They do. Would be entertaining if they didn't, though.

Why do they?  It would be *much* better if they didn't.

I think the idea is that it's a sport where playing defensively can result in nothing happening. So you want to light a fire under someone to make the action happen, a little.

If you're the lesser fencer or something and you know you have a 50% chance to win if you turtle, you might just turtle.

[upprdeck]

Basketball doesn't go to two-on-two when tied in regulation, nor does baseball go to four-on-four, nor does soccer go to three-on-three, as far as I know?

nope but soccer should since they play 90 min and still dont score..

[billhoward]

Man, this thread may run beyond Slope Day. We got a pair of season tickets just to avoid the hassle of hunting down the Harvard tickets, and the other dozen or some home games come with it.

Gwen and I loved that the place was full, full, full. The crowd and level of competition is why five decades of Harvard players say this is their favorite, at least most memorable, road trip.

The play was good, it was nice to be in the lead for the majority of the game.

I was the at-Harvard game when the live chicken got tied to Dave Elenbaas' net, we have retaliated for fifty years now and I'm kind of thinking we've made our point. (Schafer doesn't mind the fish so long as they don't hurt Cornell.) There were fish thrown before periods 2 and 3 and also during overtime when the apparent game-winner was scored. The referees could have called a delay-of-game penalty (if this was declared a no-goal) and we might have lost the game. I did see some fish wrapped in plastic being tossed. That's nice.

It really is more fun watching the most competitive games; maybe we could turn the tables on Clarkson Feb. 17.

[French Rage]

People, I've said this before, yet no one listens:

Stop subtracting skaters for OT.  Start adding pucks.

[billhoward]

The most passionate fans don't add up to enough people to make a sport popular, or profitable, or exhorbitantly profitable long-term.

Too many pro and semi-pro games (Ohio State football et al) cost too much and take too long to play. See Jason Gay in the WSJ: Soccer's Greatest Beauty: It Takes Two Hours

[The World Cup is] crisp, gloriously so. It's a reason alone to tune in. I'm not saying you can set your watch to soccer—nobody besides the ref really knows how much time is actually left—but you can almost set your watch to soccer. Do you know what a speedy blessing this is? Modern sports fans can agree: almost nothing in sports is two hours anymore. We are amid a Great Sports Time Creep, in which we have prolonged the brisk games of our youth into bureaucratically exasperating, needlessly delayed, day-sucking affairs.
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Honestly, this issue feels bigger than sports. Technology was supposed to streamline our lives, but everything now takes longer: travel, meetings, dinners, parenthood. Movies? I feel I need to take a thermos of coffee and a sleeping bag to the movies. Even this crummy sports column is way too long.

Soccer feels like an antidote to all of this. It begins when it's supposed to begin. The clock ticks forward, but you get used to it. There are no commercial interruptions until halftime. There can be whistles, video reviews, injury delays, fake injury delays, and more fake injury delays, but compared with baseball, it flies like a 100-meter dash.

[upprdeck]

I dont think soccer flies by..  There are a lot of games that drag on for ever. no one scores.. a ton of whistles where nothing really happens.. and the game ends in some vague way many the time.. with random extra minutes.. At least college you know when its over..