OT Rules in Sports and its stupidity

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Whilst I was watching the Superbowl and Joe Burrow's potential game-tying drive, it got me thinking about the absurdity of NFL overtime. For the uneducated, NFL games are decided by a coin toss and the winner decides if they want to receive the ball. A coin flip can decide your whole season, all the blood sweat and tears being poured in for a 50/50 chance. I wanted to take a quick look at a few other sports I like and see how the deciders of these lineup.

American Football

The regular season OT stats are not too absurd. Out of 163 games, 52.8 percent of the team receiving the ball. That's a slight advantage but will not be dissimilar to other sports. The real disparity and problem lies in the playoff statistics. Teams under the current OT rules who have won the coin toss are 10-1 and 7 of those ten teams have scored on the opening drive. In the biggest occasion of the NFL, a 50/50 chance decides it. In Bills v Chiefs, Josh Allen and Pat Mahomes showdown was ended without Allen seeing the ball in OT, what a waste. 

Basketball

In the NBA, the OT is different. There is 5 minutes of OT until someone is leading. This can go on and on as far as I can believe but the most I have ever seen it get is 4th OT. For basketball, I had to use the 05-06 season as that was the stats I could find and I am not collating the data myself as that is too far and too long. Teams who score first in OT win 57% of the time, a clear advantage but that is expected when you score first in a sudden death period. If a team comes from behind to level OT, 44 of the 79 teams have gone onto win. In multi-overtime games, the team scoring last is 5 of 9, good for 36%. Put it together it is 53%, nothing special but a slight advantage, which is how it should be. 

Football

This is obviously the real version of football and not the s word which as a proud British man will not be using here. Penalty shootouts in football are some of the worst ways to decide any game. Being involved whether supporting and playing in them are some of the most nerve-racking moments of any sport. However, extra times is spastically less likely to deliver results than ever before and as witnessed by some penalty shootouts recently. 46.5% of the ties going to extra time and that is a fair ratio. 

The answer is I don't know but there have been changes to this. American Football is behind the times and this is a travesty for the sports. Similar to the F1, when American Football is shining in the biggest moment, the absurdity of OT needs to be sorted and let the match shine rather than the silly rules. 




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