If you could pick one thing in sports that you could vote for and it would alter the game (in a not totally game breaking fashion), what would it be? I think I'd like to be able to vote for a baseball team to have to play the first inning with two outfielders.
What if nba teams polled their fans regarding front office decisions decisions and they actually listened? Fans could vote and actually veto trades if they didn't like them
Weird rule suggestion: In Aussie Rules football, they used to have a rule where playoff games could end in ties and if they did, they would have to come back the next week and replay the whole game which pushed the entire playoffs back a week. They finally changed this in the early 1990s by implementing overtime, but only because of it affecting the scheduling of future playoff games. Because of that being the reasoning, they determined the Grand Final could still end in a draw which it did in 2010 between Collingwood and St. Kilda which forced them to replay it the next week. They didn't implement overtime for the Grand Final until 2016.
That rule also exists in the English FA Cup (a football/soccer tournament). It's a single elimination tournament, first of all. Any games before the semifinals that end in a tie will be replayed. It doesn't necessarily push the schedules back, but it creates fixture congestion.
@@romiarkan450 They moved that back to quarterfinals recently. All ties from the quarterfinals on are one-offs with extra time and penalties as needed.
This rule also existed in Japanese professional baseball for years(abolished for professional baseball after 2000, but still exist in high school), if game tied in 15 innings, you have to replay the full game, until a winner is decided.
I'm so happy there's finally a motorsport video from SB Nation! There are so many awesome stories from our weird ass sport y'all could cover and I hope you do! (very quick list) Rewinder: Lewis Hamilton winning the 2008 F1 championship on the last corner of the last lap of the last race of a season-long battle Beef History: Sebastien Bourdais vs Paul Tracy in IndyCar - two of the best racers in American open wheel did battle for four years, and hated each other for long after that as well as they kept crashing into eachother
So this has been the best episode of Weird Rules to date. Just two hip cats on a smoke break, staring at a weird rule that doesn't do anything staggering, and shooting the breeze into absurdity
Do the rule about the cricket game where the ball gets hit into the tree and the guy scores so many runs until the other team gets a ladder to get the ball out
Attack mode is a pretty legit name considering how aggressive FE is compared to other open wheel racing series. Attack mode means your about to see the elbows come out.
A weird but universally accepted by cricket rule: No matter how big the lead is, if you can't dismiss all the opponent batsman (batter) before end of time, the match is a draw, regardless how many runs you leads against your opponent. So teams which is trailing in two innings match will intentionally play conservatively to prevent them got dismissed, like just the block the incoming delivery for balls.
OK, I guess the comments section for this video is the clearinghouse for all SBNation racing video suggestions, so: Hans Heyer. He attempted to, but failed to, qualify for the 1977 German Grand Prix, but he knew all the local track marshals and they looked the other way when he rolled his car up on race day. He started, but his car broke down, and only after that did F1 officials even notice he was out there. So he had a Did Not Qualify, Did Not Finish, and Disqualified result for the same race.
Formula E is not just an "Electric version of Formula 1." A more accurate description would be "A slower, shorter, quieter, more boring version of formula 1 where the cars aren't even good enough to make it the whole (shortened) race so a "pit stop" consists of a driver literally hopping from one car into another." It's barely more than fast electric go-carts around a go-cart track, and sounds about the same as well. If you like watching and listening to RC cars race, then you'll LOVE formula E.
I'm going to be a bit nit picky and doing this off the top of my head after having watched the video over an hour ago. 1) Fan boost and attack mode doesn't give the drivers more energy than they started with, but it gives them the ability to use it at a slightly higher rate. So it's not like they would get extra petrol if they ran with normal engines, just they can legally run their engines at a high rate. What you said sounded initially to me that they get more energy (power because it's electricity) than the other drivers because fan boost. 2) Attack mode is automatically activated when the drivers successfully drive through 3 sets of sensors on the track and lasts for exactly 5 minutes. There's nothing to activate before hand and nothing to activate after driving through the attack mode zone. So yeah, nit picky, but I kinda get the impression you either don't really understand Formula E or you're just skewing things to make them more interesting...
All these pop culture references in the video, and nobody's talking Hunger Games? Because this is straight-up how power ups worked in the Hunger Games.
There is already a sport played by robots. There's a soccer league where the teams are run by robotics students and their robots play soccer against each other.
The fan vote thing is kinda shitty, but the attack mode type thing is interesting.... It gives an element of strategy to the race. And its not super powerful... Hmm.
@@elvistwatty That was bad as a semi-successfully fixed race, but its far from the "Worst" of 6 cars gridding, 5 cars losing the lead in the last laps at Monaco in 1982, Imola 1994, multiple races where a race was attempted or not stopped despite 0 visibility conditions (Adelaide 1989, Japan 2015).
Hahaha it literally is. What these guys didn't understand is "attack mode" aka "party mode"/"full beans" in formula racing is when the car goes as fast as possible irregardless of fuel or tire wear that may occur. "Party mode" or "full beans" is way more confusing than attack
I mean, the attack mode boost lasts for several minutes after going over the strip instead of just one second like in mario kart. It actually was a really great addition to formula e imo. Adds a big element of race strategy that was left missing with the removal of pit stops.
I think a lot of people totally miss the point of the “attack mode” thing because Formula E has, admittedly, marketed it awfully. The whole point of attack mode is that they force you to take a decidedly SLOWER (or harder) route through a portion of the track in exchange for an advantage elsewhere in the track that the driver chooses when to use. It’s strategic
@@yes9421 true. I've never seen it really matter all that much in a race. I do like attack mode though, it's a good tradeoff between speed and track position which replicates the pit stop with cars that don't need to make one.
Fan boost was used in the earlier seasons to go after the fastest lap, which was an extra point. I believe one of the first champions won because he used fan boost in the final race to get the fastest lap.
The recent NASCAR Playoff system where you win one race and that's it, you are in the playoffs! So there are 36 races, playoffs starts on the 26th race so if you win the very first race basically all the other 25 races don't matter. Stupid as hell
@@makedragon Or Hell, The fact that if you start the race in the car, you get credit for the win. You can do One (1) lap, pit and swap to another drvier, and if the car wins, you get the win.
Don't forget a lot of other forms of racing as well. The worst Indycar engine manufacturer (Lotus 2012) Beef history of Valentino Rossi vs Max Biaggi Rewinder of that Macau GP when Dan Ticktum won on the last corner because the two guys in front of them crashed into the outside wall (forgot the year) Collapse of various entire racing series we used to love that no longer exists (various F3 series, Group B rallying, etc)
Some suggestions for weird rules: Wilt Chamberlains Dunking free throws Rugby Union penalty shootout (Cardiff vs Leicester 2009) Rugby League, Using your Head to move the ball (1990/91 St Helens (34) vs Sheffield Eagles (17))
@@64cgfan Also a Nintendo fan XD. Mario Kart never had the "Charge up" mechanic for Boost. It's also interesting as F-Zero was made to be a "futuristic F1"...
You could have had a ton of fun with this and stretched it out another 6 minutes. Well, Formula E is also trying to start an AI series with entirely autonomous vehicles. No really, its called "Roborace" Well also, Formula E once hosted an exhibition event in Vegas where they made every single Formula E driver race against 10 "professional" sim racers on simulators/(A video Game) Oh, did I forget to mention that Formula E also used to make you use two cars to complete one race?
Sports Beefs: Ayrton Senna vs Alain Prost. Or Lewis Hamilton vs Nico Rosberg. Hell, even Hamilton/McLaren vs Fernando Alonso. Just giving you some ideas...
The only things coming to mind are rewinders of Gravity's 6 second OOTA of the heavily favored Dantomkia or Bombshell's upset of Tombstone. Maybe a Weird Rules segment about Battlebots's drone rule, and including Hypershock swatting a drone down with a rake.
I don't care which show it's on, I would watch the hell out of a sb nation battlebots video. I suggest projectiles or drones as weird rules. Or maybe when bombshell somehow beat duck! Last year.
The problem is this never asked fans to assess objectively other drivers. It just becomes entrenched tribalism. Thankfully they never tried it in F1. It would never go to anyone down the grid just purely bc of broadcast exposure, or lack thereof. I imagine this will also become less of a good ideas Formula E continues to establish itself
Formula E is probably good for like 2 full seasons of Weird Rules. Yet despite its strangeness, the racing is always pretty good and (unlike F1) there's actual passing!
I think the "Fan Boost" is pretty harmless, and I don't mind the Attack Mode, either. The Formula E racing has been fun to watch, and the technology being developed by the series can only help the development of future electric vehicles (much as motor racing did throughout the 20th century). I would like to see NASCAR create a legalized cheating system. The historical culture of NASCAR has been based on a "whatever you can do an not get caught" type of ethics. They have recently been cracking down on violators more aggressively it seems. I think they are losing a bit of what makes NASCAR interesting. If they want to hard-line enforce the rules, that's fine, but I would like to see them put a system in place where teams can selectively choose to violate a rule. It would be subject to limitations: 1. They can only do it a limited number of times per season (12 sounds nice). 2. They can only do one "cheat" per race. 3. It has to be specified (declared to NASCAR) before-hand. (They can't say in a post-race inspection that the thing they violated was that race's cheat). 4. They still have limits (plus or minus 10% or whatever on a given measurement) 5. NASCAR can mandate a specific set of available cheats, other things are off limits. 6. It has to be made public after the race. Even a small number of variables would give the teams nearly infinite possibilities. Would slightly stiffer or softer suspension be an advantage at a given track, or could a slight change to the spoiler by another team balance that out?
