Rule change
- Thread starter Sunshinedynomite 1
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The ride time rule as the tiebreaker is very dumb. Kudos to Rutgers for exploiting the rule, but that's a crap way to decide a winner. At least Olympic wrestling has tiebreaker criteria that mostly make sense.
The fact that they decide a match based on riding time, but that they don't take riding time from the whole match into account is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.
If other rules were changed, we would likely see a 50% reduction (or more) of bouts going to OT.
1. Stealing Burrows suggestion for changing TD/Escapes. TD=2. Guy has chance to earn 1pt for escape until bout is stopped (out of bounds, stalemate, potentially dangerous, etc). On restart, top man can elect to restart in neutral with no point awarded for escape, or stay in top position.
2. Make stalling similar to false start/improper starting position. First occurrence is a warning like now. Every subsequent violation is 1 pt. Does not lead to disqualification and make calling of it much more aggressive.
If it did go to OT, keep SV at 2 minutes. Make Rideout 1 minute each (both periods must be wrestled) and no choice of neutral (strictly top or bottom). Riding time is kept for OT and if at any point net riding time equals 1+ minute, it is a point.
Make all 3 and I bet less than 0.5% (1 in 200) of matches ever go to second round of OT.
1. Stealing Burrows suggestion for changing TD/Escapes. TD=2. Guy has chance to earn 1pt for escape until bout is stopped (out of bounds, stalemate, potentially dangerous, etc). On restart, top man can elect to restart in neutral with no point awarded for escape, or stay in top position.
2. Make stalling similar to false start/improper starting position. First occurrence is a warning like now. Every subsequent violation is 1 pt. Does not lead to disqualification and make calling of it much more aggressive.
If it did go to OT, keep SV at 2 minutes. Make Rideout 1 minute each (both periods must be wrestled) and no choice of neutral (strictly top or bottom). Riding time is kept for OT and if at any point net riding time equals 1+ minute, it is a point.
Make all 3 and I bet less than 0.5% (1 in 200) of matches ever go to second round of OT.
That’s an interesting concept. We hear ideas about first period TD, get rid of RT, TDs worth 3, but you can count on one hand the number of times guys will get reversals in a dual meet. I like it.
Interesting concept on team scoring.
the amount of points you win by is team score and 20 for a pin
i.e you win 6-3 3 team points, 15-3 12 team points. Etc max points is 15 for a pin 20 points.
the amount of points you win by is team score and 20 for a pin
i.e you win 6-3 3 team points, 15-3 12 team points. Etc max points is 15 for a pin 20 points.
Other rule change- take downs worth 2 then additional point after 3rd takedown
This could influence close team matches. Would like to see analysis at end of season how it would have changed outcomes in matches between top 20 ranked teams
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