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Sports are games too, you know. In this episode, Marc, Matt, and Bubba sit down to talk about various sports rules and controversies and analyze them as game design. What are they optimizing for? Whose interests do they serve? What's the role of randomness or human judgement in making a sport great? What even makes sports great?
0:34 - Intro1:32 - What's the goal when "designing" sports rules?2:45 - What's the most viewer-friendly board game?7:12 - Gold Drafting13:24 - Playoff size16:18 - Promotion/relegation21:45 - Eliminating the kick return24:39 - Conservative play in the NFL and elsewhere29:18 - The designated hitter31:50 - Changes to the actual baseball ball36:03 - 3-point line42:56 - Dunking on basketball45:44 - Soccer's relatively simple rules48:27 - Punishments and penalties in different sports50:35 - Robots and video54:22 - Disc golf penalty culture1:03:10 - The 2 meter rule1:11:41 - Back to robots1:26:39 - The shift
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
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