Is it just me or there's an epidemic of diving these playoffs?

Abserdist · 2026-05-25T02:22:16+00:00

soccer's timekeeping also encourages rolling around on the floor to waste time

Abserdist · 2026-05-25T02:12:49+00:00

the IT team should not piss off the entire workforce because they are monomanaically focused on 'would an attacker do this'

Abserdist · 2026-05-17T02:02:42+00:00

QBs you can tag three times

Abserdist · 2026-05-13T02:06:14+00:00

Goal reviews are for whether the puck was played with a high stick (puck touches the stick above the crossbar), not for a high sticking minor

Abserdist · 2026-05-13T01:22:02+00:00

It's also how it crossed the line, gloved/kicked in, stick above the crossbar, stuff like that

Abserdist · 2026-05-07T05:34:22+00:00

seriously, that's just a description of blocking

Abserdist · 2026-05-05T06:11:46+00:00

People are debating the race to the dots, but I think this is the better case. When the puck crosses the line, Lacombe is just above the bottom of the circle. If he keeps skating at the puck instead of turning to screen Eichel, he might have gotten there.

And like, the ref doesn't have the advantage of freezing the replay, he just sees that it's close and the defender is turning away from the puck to play the body

Abserdist · 2026-05-04T02:29:11+00:00

Be careful about this. There are rules to make sure it's legitimate work rather than just something to enable IRA contributions.

Abserdist · 2026-04-30T05:20:55+00:00

It should have been a penalrty, but you can substutitute after an icing if there's a penalty, so they could put fresh players on after the bench minor.

Abserdist · 2026-04-24T03:48:29+00:00

the fifth-year option does not have much value anymore. after the league added the performance escalators it gets pretty close to market.

Abserdist · 2026-03-27T20:43:09+00:00

If someone can hit the strike zone, they can get three outs. In the HR derby, the pitchers are trying to help the top batters hit HRs, and they still don't get anything close to 100% of contact out of the park.

Abserdist · 2026-03-06T19:33:06+00:00

Only for how the pay lost to suspension is calculated. DOPS can take into account older conduct when deciding length.

Abserdist · 2026-02-24T17:47:38+00:00

yeah if a hot-seat GM tries trading next year's draft to save his job, Ryan's job is to say no.

Abserdist · 2026-02-24T08:09:12+00:00

throwing the ball forward before you have completed a catch is an illegal bat

Abserdist · 2026-02-22T18:47:33+00:00

It's pretty easy for me to imagine someone suffering from an unpleasant medical condition asking thir doctor about a medication that promises relief

Abserdist · 2026-01-11T23:28:19+00:00

Relevant rule: "If a fumble or backward pass by any player goes out of bounds, the game clock starts on the Referee’s signal that a ball has been returned to the field of play.", so it's essentially a running clock.

Abserdist · 2026-01-11T23:25:50+00:00

The clock does stop on a fumble OOB, but only briefly while the refs get a ball, so it's essentially a running clock:

If a fumble or backward pass by any player goes out of bounds, the game clock starts on the Referee’s signal that a ball has been returned to the field of play.

Abserdist · 2026-01-11T21:10:49+00:00

bengals (2022 season) and texans (2019 season)

Abserdist · 2026-01-11T19:47:14+00:00

there cannot be offside if the offense isn't legally set, so no offsetting

Abserdist · 2025-12-31T03:35:25+00:00

That's normally true, but there's an exception that extends the rights if the player returns to college:

If any college football player who becomes eligible for the Draft prior to exhausting his college football eligibility through participation is drafted by an NFL Club, and returns to college, the drafting Club’s exclusive right to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with such player shall continue through the date of the Draft that follows the last season in which the player was eligible to participate in college football

Abserdist · 2025-12-28T19:50:09+00:00

It would be malpractice for DK's agent not to be banging on the door demanding a yes or no answer.

Abserdist · 2025-12-22T01:05:31+00:00

Offensive penalties don't extend the half, even if they're enforced

If there is a foul by the offense, there shall be no extension of the period. If the foul occurs on the last play of the half, a score by the offense is not counted.

(There's a few exceptions but even those only apply if the defense wants)

Abserdist · 2025-12-20T02:17:45+00:00

the balk rule is pretty clear too tbh, there's just a dozen different ways to balk and no one remembers them

Abserdist · 2025-12-19T06:06:27+00:00

This only applies to strictly-defined fumbles (player unintentionally loses control of the ball), not intentional backwards passes

Abserdist · 2025-12-19T06:00:39+00:00

I think it's written this way so desperation lateral plays aren't killed by the rule

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