Dentist
***Official FBG Dentist***
There are a lot of things fans of a variety of sports would do to change the sport - i'm sure of this - but many of the changes one might make to their favorite sport may result in that sport generating less revenue, and since sports are a business, that change won't happen.
But let's live in fantasy land and flesh out the changes you'd make to your favorite sports (or maybe changes that would cause you to follow a sport you don't watch).
MLB - shorter season (100 games sounds right) - whatever changes are necessary to make the average game time get back down to 2 hours 15-30 min, all teams play under the same rules, all playoff series are best of 7 games (WS - best of 11)
NBA - shorter regular season (honestly about 50 games sounds right) - less teams make playoffs, but keep best of 7 format.. something must be done in basketball in general to clean up the last 2 min of a game to get rid of the ridiculous end of game fouling strategy. Rim to raise to 11 ft for pros.
NFL - season length of 16 seems great - eliminate divisions, less teams make playoffs, Superbowl Saturday... take measures to reduce game time which is swelling towards 3 hr. 30 min back down to under 3 hrs (shorter play clock?)
Tennis - 4 majors - Australian Open in March, French Open in early May, Wimbledon in July, US Open in mid-September (every major has a roof to use for minimizing rain delays), less masters tournaments, longer off-season
Soccer - increase goal size by 15-20% to make scoring a less random encounter and thus reduce the incidence of ties which plague the sport.
Nascar - I don't think anything they could do would get me to watch
Hockey - I don't think anything they could do would get me to watch
College Football - eliminate all conferences - Division 1 is split up into sections (like euro soccer) Best 30 teams, next 30 teams, next 30 teams, etc. Eliminate the ridiculous blowout games where Alabama is favored by like 50 over some team (that's not a sport), run it more like a legit sports league. Bottom 5 teams drop into the conference below, top 5 teams move up into the top conference.
College Basketball - same thing as stated above. in each 30 team league the top 8 teams will make the playoffs and we'll have best of 7's to have a legit champion.
Poker - if you're favored by 70% or better when the money goes into the pot in all-in setting for tournament poker you win the pot outright, we're going to eliminate bad beats.
Golf - less players allowed to enter majors - the field size these days is ridiculous
That is all - tl; dr and all
But let's live in fantasy land and flesh out the changes you'd make to your favorite sports (or maybe changes that would cause you to follow a sport you don't watch).
MLB - shorter season (100 games sounds right) - whatever changes are necessary to make the average game time get back down to 2 hours 15-30 min, all teams play under the same rules, all playoff series are best of 7 games (WS - best of 11)
NBA - shorter regular season (honestly about 50 games sounds right) - less teams make playoffs, but keep best of 7 format.. something must be done in basketball in general to clean up the last 2 min of a game to get rid of the ridiculous end of game fouling strategy. Rim to raise to 11 ft for pros.
NFL - season length of 16 seems great - eliminate divisions, less teams make playoffs, Superbowl Saturday... take measures to reduce game time which is swelling towards 3 hr. 30 min back down to under 3 hrs (shorter play clock?)
Tennis - 4 majors - Australian Open in March, French Open in early May, Wimbledon in July, US Open in mid-September (every major has a roof to use for minimizing rain delays), less masters tournaments, longer off-season
Soccer - increase goal size by 15-20% to make scoring a less random encounter and thus reduce the incidence of ties which plague the sport.
Nascar - I don't think anything they could do would get me to watch
Hockey - I don't think anything they could do would get me to watch
College Football - eliminate all conferences - Division 1 is split up into sections (like euro soccer) Best 30 teams, next 30 teams, next 30 teams, etc. Eliminate the ridiculous blowout games where Alabama is favored by like 50 over some team (that's not a sport), run it more like a legit sports league. Bottom 5 teams drop into the conference below, top 5 teams move up into the top conference.
College Basketball - same thing as stated above. in each 30 team league the top 8 teams will make the playoffs and we'll have best of 7's to have a legit champion.
Poker - if you're favored by 70% or better when the money goes into the pot in all-in setting for tournament poker you win the pot outright, we're going to eliminate bad beats.
Golf - less players allowed to enter majors - the field size these days is ridiculous
That is all - tl; dr and all
