There is NO such thing as a perfect person, a perfect car, perfect life,and the same can be said about sports. Every sport could improve and every sport makes it's share of mistakes. Most rules are made to keep the fans interested, or for the safety of the game, but a lot of them just don't make any sense.
10. Offsides in soccer
Whats wrong with it: It's a constant imaginary line that the refs have to keep an eye on (which they continously make the wrong calls) that slows down and ruins the game of soccer. It's the reason why the average score of a soccer game is usually 1-0 or even 0-0. Whenever teams defense are trying to trap you to go offsides you know somethings wrong.
How to fix it: Make a normal offsides line like they have in hockey so defenders that are overmatched and too slow can't play tricks and games to get an advantage. If you can switch this rule, games will be more high scoring, which also means more fans (especially in the USA)
9. NFL's limit to the amount of challenges that you're allowed per game
What's wrong with it: Here is how the rules are stated... Each team gets 2 challenges and only allowed a 3rd challenge if they were successful with the 2 previous challenges. This doesn't happen too often but WHY does a team get punished if a NFL referee makes more then 3 mistakes in a game. Even if you were wrong on your first 2 challenges, why would you have the challenge option and let a ref ruin a game. It's not the coach's fault the 84 year old upstairs can't see the TV and thought you should challenge a couple calls by mistake.
How to Fix it: Either have every play reviewable by the refs (how the NCAA does it) or give as many challenges as the team needs as long as they have timeouts available (since you lose a timeout anyways when your wrong)
8. Being able to go for Konkan in the 7th game of a series
What's wrong with it: You could win the first 6 games of the series and have a 500 pt lead. For some reason in the 7th game your opponent still has a chance if it can get "Konkan". Somehow, the opponent is lucky enough to have 2 jokers and gets the unthinkable Konkan against you and wins the whole series, its bullshit if you ask me.
7. Everything about baseballs fields
What's wrong with it: Red Sox right field fence is only 302 feet, while wrigley field is 355 feet down the right fieldline. I've seen 430 feet to center field, and I've seen 390 feet to center field. Some teams have hills in the outfield and some teams have a bullpen in the foul ball area. In a league where stats means more then anything, we will never know who is the real home run king every year. Miguel Cabreras 38 homeruns at comerica park would probably be 45 homeruns at Yankee stadium. What if the celtics had a shorter 3 pt line or how about if the lions only used a 90 yard field. It makes no sense to me why each team doesn't have the same exact field.
6. College fotball rules vs. the NFL rules.
What's wrong with it: I understand they try making it easier on college kids then NFL pros so I understand that you only need one foot inbounds for a catch. What I don't understand is why they make it harder to make a field goal in college than the pros. How does that make sense? Also, why in the world are you down by contact???? I can't wait until a player is all alone in the national championship game and a player from the opposing bench trips him and the refs wont know what to do because he can't just get up and walk into the endzone
How to fix it: make the 2 sports rules more similar. Change the field goal in college and PLEASE change the down by contact rule.
5. MLB all star game determines home field advantage for the World Series
What's wrong with it: Sorry, but if you can't figure what's wrong with this one you shouldn't be watching sports and you have an IQ equivalent to Alan from the hangover. This was all to bring in more money, just like when they encouraged HGH/steroids while juicing the baseballs to bring MLB's fans back
4. College Basketballs 3 pt line
What's wrong with it: It's too short, it changes the game of basketball. Half the shots taken in a college game are usually 3 pointers. If a team has a bad shooting game from outside the arc, 90 percent of the time that team loses. To be honest, anytime 5 white boys who run 5.2 second 40 yard dashes and have 20 inch verticals can beat 5 athletic black guys, you know something has to be wrong.
Image via WikipediaHow to fix it: Move the college line back a foot or two, get these players ready for the pros and allow College teams to run a normal offense. Kevin Garnett can't make an NBA 3 pointer, but his favorite shot (an 18 -19 footer) that he could make with his eyes closed would be a college 3 pointer
3. First round of MLB's playoffs
What's wrong with it: They play 162 regular season games! I repeat, they play 162 regular season games! Why in the world is the first round only best of 5! You can have 1 or2 bad games in the playoffs and boom, your 100 win season means nothing. I just don't understand how you need 5 pitchers to be good in the regular season but only need 2 good pitchers whenthe playoffs start. There should be no days off and all 5 pitchers shouldbe used. How does it make sense that after162 games it can all be over after just 3?
How to fix it: make every round in baseball best of 15
2. Home court/field advantage in the NBA, NHL, and MLB
What's wrong with it: Example, in 2006 Dallas had a record of 67-15, had the number one seed in the west and played the #8 seeded Warriors who had a 42-40 record. When you do the math you can see that Dallas had a 25 game advantage over Golden State in the regular season. For some reason, being better then the other team by 25 games reward is one extra home playoff game (most of the time ZERO). Like what happened in 2006, 90 percent of the time when an underdog wins a series they win it in game 6. When that does happen, each team gets an equal 3 home games. So basically, having a 25 game lead throughout the whole season means pretty much nothing. All the stats will show you that the team with home court advantage wins the series 75 percent of the time, but be smart and figure out the main reason for that is because the home team is the better team.
How to fix it: give the 1 seed 5 home games, to the 8 seeds 2 games, or re-arrange how the series goes with home games (maybe 3-2-1-1).
1. NBA's Jump Ball
Whats wrong with it: I have nothing against the opening tip-off as each team gets to pick it's most athletic player tojump with the other teams big man. Let's imagine a scenario, Steve Nash hustles his ass off and dives for a loose ball with Orlando's Dwight Howard and they both end up with the ball. Steve nash's coach and teammates and even the ref applaud Nash for his hard work and here is how he gets rewarded... We are going to throw the ball up 12 feet in the air but only you (5'11,18 inch vertical) and Dwight Howard (7'2, can dunk on a 12 foot rim) have a chance to jump for it. Why would Nash or any other small player ever even fight for a ball. Remember when your lil 4 year old brother wanted something from you, so you put it in your hand and made him try and jump high enough to get it from you. Well that's what it looks like when Nash and Howard are involved in a jump ball, he can't even jump high enough to give Dwight Howard a high five
How to fix it: Simple, you get to pick who does the jumpball from the 5 players on the court at the time. What would really get the fans interested is if you play like in street ball, and shoot for ball
And there we have it, the ten most ridiculous rules in all of sports, if you have any rules of your own, feel free to comment.
Just missed the cut: Baseball having 6 teams in the NL central and only 4 teams in the AL west.
