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 - Intro
1:32 - What's the goal when "designing" sports rules?
2:45 - What's the most viewer-friendly board game?
7:12 - Gold Drafting
13:24 - Playoff size
16:18 - Promotion/relegation
21:45 - Eliminating the kick return
24:39 - Conservative play in the NFL and elsewhere
29:18 - The designated hitter
31:50 - Changes to the actual baseball ball
36:03 - 3-point line
42:56 - Dunking on basketball
45:44 - Soccer's relatively simple rules
48:27 - Punishments and penalties in different sports
50:35 - Robots and video
54:22 - Disc golf penalty culture
1:03:10 - The 2 meter rule
1:11:41 - Back to robots
1:26:39 - The shift
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
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Ep 77: A Conversation With Sean Chappell About Hivernation
Ep 76: Conventions in the Time of COVID -- With Kimberly Revia
Ep 75: Adventure
Ep 74: Top 100 Games of All Time 2020 Edition (part 3)
Ep 73: Top 100 Games of All Time 2020 Edition (part 2)
Ep 72: Top 100 Games of All Time 2020 Edition (Part 1)
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Ep 71: Best Games of 2019
Ep 70: A Conversation With Sean McDonald About Making IP Games
Ep 69: PAX East 2020
Ep 68: A Conversation With Bruno Faidutti
Ep 67: A Conversation With Patrick Rauland About Game Creation
Ep 66: Q&A, Masterpiece Games, and Fundraising Week
Ep 65: A Conversation With Ken Franklin
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Ep 64: A Conversation With Gil Hova
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