May 24, 20179 yr NFL owners approve shortening overtime to 10 minutes Shorter overtimes are among the changes that will be coming to NFL games in 2017. NFL team owners approved shortening overtime in the preseason and regular season from 15 to 10 minutes at the Spring League Meeting in Chicago on Tuesday, a league official told NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport. The approval comes after the proposal was initially presented to owners during the Annual League Meeting in March. As NFL Network's Judy Battista pointed out, the rule change is aimed at improving player safety. There have been concerns about the number of additional plays teams undergo while playing a full 15-minute overtime period, especially when one of the teams is subject to playing its next game on a short week. Some teams were initially concerned the condensed time period would limit their ability to control the ball during the extra frame, but it appears those worries have eased, at least for now. Although the idea of a 10-minute overtime has been a polarizing issue, the change shouldn't lead to a significant increase in tie scores. According to NFL Research, there have been 83 overtime games over the last five seasons, 22 of them lasting at least 10 minutes into overtime (the average time elapsed in overtime in the last five years is 7 minutes, 43 seconds). There have been five games that ended in a tie in those five seasons, an average of one per year. If overtime had ended after 10 minutes, there would have been 16 total ties, for an average of 3.2 times over a 512-game season. The move to shorter overtimes is just one of the changes that have been approved for the 2017 season. At the Annual League Meeting, team owners banned leaping over the line to block kicks and approved automatic ejections for egregious hits to the head. In addition, team owners approved a centralized replay to give the NFL's New York officiating command center the final say on reviewed calls.
May 24, 20179 yr ...And yet we want baseball games to just keep going, and going, and going, and going.....
May 24, 20179 yr If safety is such a concern why do they even have OT during the pre-season? If extra plays are especially
May 24, 20179 yr Terrible. Play to get a winner. Or don't ever bother with OT if it such a safety concern.
May 24, 20179 yr Do the college thing. More ties will probably happen. We probably average one a year, it may go to 3-4.
May 24, 20179 yr The player safety angle is a sham. See post 3 - NEERFAN is absolutely correct. Agree.
May 24, 20179 yr ...And yet we want baseball games to just keep going, and going, and going, and going..... No we don't want it to keep going but we want a winner.
May 24, 20179 yr This feels like it's just a rule for the sake of saying they made a rule change. Call me a communist, but I'm slowly finding myself in the camp of, who cares if the game ends in a tie? So if player safety is such a concern, just do away with OT and let regular season games end in ties.
May 24, 20179 yr Call me a communist, but I'm slowly finding myself in the camp of, who cares if the game ends in a tie? So if player safety is such a concern, just do away with OT and let regular season games end in ties. Welcome to the club! Not every game deserves a winner. Seattle/Arizona last year epitomizes that. 6-6. Riveting.
May 24, 20179 yr If safety is a concern, then eliminate contact. This is stupid. At least they can make snow angels now.
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.