{"id":5073,"date":"2010-03-18T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2010-03-18T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T08:00:44","slug":"not-so-sudden-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5073","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Sudden Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100317\/ap_on_sp_fo_ne\/fbn_nfl_overtime\">NFL to examine 2 possessions in playoffs OT<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NFL owners will vote next week whether to allow each team a possession in overtime in the playoffs if the team winning the OT coin toss kicks a field goal on the first series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems a little odd.  I wonder if the purpose is to entice teams to go for the TD which would end the game, rather than settle for the field goal.  But I looked at my fantasy league statistics from this past year (the NFL site didn&#8217;t have league-wide stats) and there were about 800 field goals vs 1200 offensive TDs, so scoring a TD is more likely.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL to examine 2 possessions in playoffs OT NFL owners will vote next week whether to allow each team a possession in overtime in the playoffs if the team winning the OT coin toss kicks a field goal on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5073\">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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}