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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 725123" data-attributes="member: 10247">You seem to be taking a lot of time discussing something you don't care about <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />  I say that jokingly because for the most part I agree with you.  If you have read my posts and my proposals as well as my discussions with WIMM you will note that in games where a winner is not essential I am not in favor of any overtime.  You can't get any more fair than that.  Each team has 60 minutes for their offense, defense and special teams to win the game.  It doesn't matter if one team has 5 more possession than the other it's the 60 minutes that decides when the game is over.In the playoffs where a winner is needed an OT is a necessary evil and while true sudden death didn't bother me as much as it did some I can see where some people do not like it.I've made my points several times so there is no need to go through them again but I did want to say that I love the point you brought up in your original post in this thread about taking stats out of context.  when I read "Since that touchdown-only alteration, six playoff games have gone to overtime and all six have been won by the team that correctly called the coin toss." two thing immediately came to my mind first off why did he only include playoff games.  The OT rules are the same for regular season and the playoffs so if his point is to show the OT rules are unfair why not use all OT games in your argument.  My only conclusion was that if he had included regular season games he couldn't say the team correctly calling the toss won 100% of the games and that would weaken his argument.  The second thing I thought of was just as you said.  Yes teams that correctly called the toss won all 6 games but how many of them won it on their first possession which is exactly is what he was trying to get us to think happened.  I was hoping someone would have gone through and found that out.  I'm still not sure about all six game but as you have pointed out at least 2 of them were not decided on the first possession and the other team had at least one chance.  Something that rendered correctly calling the coin toss a moot point.Back before the switched to the current system and people were arguing against sudden death claiming it was almost an automatic win for the team winning the toss they threw out a statistic that said something like 2/3 of all OT games were won by the team winning the toss.  Again inferring that they won on their first possession when in fact the number was closer to the 54 % you mentioned.  A perfect example of using stats and manipulating them to show whatever it is you want them to show.</blockquote>

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