Posted on 07/19/2016 12:12:47 PM PDT by Colofornian
Hey, Tom Brady — deflate this football at your own risk.
According to the Toronto Sun, the NFL is planning on inserting customized data chips into game balls for the 2016 preseason, beginning next month, and for Thursday Night Football regular-season games. The Sun reports that narrowing the goalposts could be one of the results from this experiment. Our emails and calls to the league for confirmation weren't immediately returned.
With a data chip embedded in the game balls, the league's front office could gauge how close each made field goal measures through the uprights. The NFL could also estimate how many kicks would be missed if the uprights were closer together. This comes after kickers made a whopping 84.5 percent of their field goal attempts last season, seemingly spelling that the extra three points might be too easy for teams right now and thus prompting a change.
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“This would be a device that has mass — and for a football, significant mass. It will change the physics of the football.”
Already used in soccer balls.
A critical FAILURE point in the game. The fact that each ump has their own version of the strike zone, to the point where MLB pitchers study tape of THEM is a pathetic shame. There’s no entertainment value in only one person in the stadium knowing if that’s a ball or strike.
A sensor could be a lot of fun.
Air pressure/temperature
Ball speed
Rotations
We could have new stats on how fast the ball carrier is running, velocity of a thrown ball, number of spirals while the ball is in the air, height of a kicked ball, etc...
They could even track down the kid that was handed Cam Newton’s 1000th touchdown pass and Cam could trade it for an autographed ball.
I heard the Russians were injecting there football’s with steroids.
For an extra point, adjust the posts to maybe 20 ft. or force the team to go for two points.........
It is easer to watch at home. When I go it seems like endless time outs.
The 16% provides the drama.
HaHa! Maybe this chip can also check air pressure and go into loud beeping mode when tampered with.
“They’ve specifically said it will not “
This means of course, that it WILL.
No it doesn’t. Especially because most of that 16% are the long shots. Pretty much anything snapped inside the 30 is automatic. FGs are boring, time to narrow the posts, but not the hashmarks (that’s a big part of the problem, no aiming is really necessary because the kick always starts from inside the posts, FG kicking is actually harder in college with the wider hashes). I’d put a bar on top too, no more “the posts go forever” junk, make it a rectangle, make the kickers do some real aiming and force control.
No it won’t. It should, but the device is totally external and won’t be able to.
Screw the NFL. Leftist owners and thug players.
It is not an organization any of you should be supporting.
Because the strike zone is supposed to change with the height and stance of the hitter. It would work really good for inside and outside, low and high is where it would get tricky. But it isn’t like the umps really change their zone too much for shorter players vs tall players now, and pitch track doesn’t look like it changes either. So maybe just come up with a standard rectangle height above home plate.
But I think that would mean a lot of 2 hour 13 inning 1-0 games with the relief pitching now, at least for a few years. The zone that is called by the umps looks like a crooked oval depending on lefty/righty hitter, with basically no actual corner calls called correctly.
Freegards
Sensors on the uniforms.
Who inspects the sensors before every at bat? How low are you going to let them crouch the next two pitches if they go 3-0 in the count? I like something on the player because stances change depending on the game situation, and yes the strike zone should too. Some, anyhow. But an ump wouldn’t change his zone to much if a player tried to make a shorter strike zone. Ball height passing over the plate on isometric measurements of the player might do it, but you would then be losing the stance changing the zone at all. I wouldn’t be totally against something like that, I guess.
Freegards
Ok. Maybe something against the rules was done.
But I’m a JETS FAN and EVEN I can’t believe Wilkerson got one game suspension for driving 150 with drugs and kid in car and resisting arrest?!?!?!
four game suspension for a ball???
Will these chips be colored in pink for October?
Put lights on each upright to indicate a successful field goal. That would eliminate any questions of wether the fg was good or not.
Doesn’t it really boil down to coach’s discretion and the definition of “field goal range”.
The coaches collectively have determined that the definition of “field goal range” is “the area where 84.5% of attempts are completed”. If they narrow the goal posts, then “the area where 84.5% of attempts are completed” will become smaller. Thus, they just won’t attempt field goals until they are closer in.
My guess is that it will result in more punts and more failed 4th down attempts which would make it a lower scoring and more boring game.
How about sensors to determine first downs? The way it’s done now is absurd.
First, the referees spot the ball. Then the chain gain aligns one end of the chain from the sideline. Several plays later, they may bring the chains out to measure for the first down. They didn’t bring out the chains to get an accurate location for the first down so any further measurements are only a guess..
BTW, if you can use sensors to measure for a first down, you can use sensors to determine touchdowns. You can also determine if receptions were in bounds.
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