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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, January 24, 2022Frontier League adds sudden-death tiebreaker to extra-innings games in 2022
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Posted: January 24, 2022 at 06:28 PM | 22 comment(s)
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1. salvomania Posted: January 24, 2022 at 08:59 PM (#6062325)But I admit that I'd prefer actual runs being scored to win the game. And I'd have to imagine that I'd want to take defense every time if I had the choice - seems like runner on 1st, 0 out is not really all that close to a 50/50 proposition like you would want.
http://www.tangotiger.net/re24.html
but thats for the entire game. Given the situation you should be able to increase your odds with a pinch runner or an excellent bunter.
I'll accept my "Get off my lawn" sign if that's what it takes to show I don't like these.
Further, for the sake of standings treat a tie the same as a loss, except it's a loss for both teams. That is, statistically record it as a tie, but award the division championship to the team with the most wins. No half-wins for ties. You need to win the game for it to count in your favor.
For this new rule, though, a team can win a game 4-4, if I understand correctly. If the defense wins they're not going to grant them a run, are they?
For the Independent leagues, I'd take the same general approach, but I get that the standings "matter" a little more than in the affiliated leagues, and since its generally games not involving prospects or many future big leaguers, some experimentation is fine there...so despite my earlier statement, I don't much care what the Frontier league does if they think the game will be more entertaining.
For the Majors, leave it alone...how many ultra-long games are there really? Enough that they are fun for the fans...if you want to go to bed and watch the highlights in the morning, go ahead and do that - I'm already doing it for most Yankees-Red Sox 8 PM ESPN starts anyway...and the one or two games a year where Chris Davis or Anthony Rizzo have to pitch are fun...they are a feature, not a bug.
You'd want someone with a good pickoff move, right?
One problem here is the incentive for collusion. This problem has long been known in contexts like chess and Magic tournaments - if a tie benefits nobody, the players will arrange for somebody to win, by a coin flip or some other such means if necessary. It would be harder in a team-sport rather than a tabletop-game context, but the possibility does exist.
Besides that, the teams would never agree to reduce the total number of wins in the league. The NHL loves having a league-wide .580 points percentage and two-thirds of the teams over .500.
The defending team will plug in their best remaining defenders although, given today's benches, after 10 innings of a tie game, they probably won't have any subs left anyway.
And there would be legit debate over whether to use your closer in the 9th, 10th or sudden death.
Anyway put me down in the "if you want to win, you have to out-score the other team" category and allow ties if you need to limit innings.
We are a few years away from a little league style run rule at this point. Or maybe a tiebreaker where players line up against a pitching machine and see which side can hit more home runs.
Blernsball!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQF8rQaIjUE
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