In Reply to: While we're at it, there should be a balk rule for penalty kicks. posted by azbruin on July 06, 2026 at 08:30:52
played by tinkering with the rules. What you get when you keep doing that is (American) football, with its doorstopper of a rulebook filled with arcane exceptions and even more arcane exceptions to those arcane exceptions that feel like it's been designed by a bunch or lawmakers trying to sculpt the perfect game they'd like to watch.
My main objection to the offside rule is the fact that by making measurement so fine grained, we are creating a situation where players can't tell if they're online or not even when they're trying to be. I'm for simplifying the rule and making violations more obvious and observable by all.