{"id":3449,"date":"2009-08-21T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2009-08-21T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T08:00:35","slug":"time-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3449","title":{"rendered":"Time In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2009\/08\/16\/a_modest_proposal_for_improving_football_the_time_in\/\">Start the clock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A modest proposal for improving football: the \u2018time-in\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019ve ever noticed that football games slow to a predictable crawl at the end of each half, the time-in is the rule for you. The idea is simple: When the clock is stopped, for whatever reason, a coach could call a \u201ctime-in,\u201d and force the clock to start up again. Think of it as the antimatter version of the timeout.<\/p>\n<p>The time-in is so powerful that I recommend it be strictly rationed: each team would get only one time-in per season. The possibility of a sudden time-in would loom large in every coach\u2019s mind at the most tense points in the game, introducing just enough concern and uncertainty to make the game different. Timeworn clock-management strategies would no longer be a given. And yet, for the average viewer on a Sunday, the game on the field would still be your father\u2019s football.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this assumes that the time-in is used that game. If it hasn\u2019t been used yet, it affects the game in a different, but more subtle way: the opposing team will simply have to assume that it might be used. Coaches would enter the realm of game theory: how do we calculate when it\u2019s the best game to use it? And what if the other team is expecting us to think this way?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start the clock A modest proposal for improving football: the \u2018time-in\u2019 If you\u2019ve ever noticed that football games slow to a predictable crawl at the end of each half, the time-in is the rule for you. The idea is simple: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,52,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-sports","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}