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Re:Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s ... by thrower123 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:25PM (#18549066)
I fervently believe that soccer would be a much more entertaining game if the substitution rules were significantly loosened. When I played in high school, substitution was allowed on any dead ball situation, and we effectively used something like a hockey line shift, with midfielders shuttling in and out every five minutes. The result was that you could play at a much higher tempo than if you had to conserve energy for the entire match. It was far more enjoyable both as a player and a spectator.
Re:Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s ... by _ph_ on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @04:42AM (#18550340)
There was a very good rule change recently: if a game goes to overtime, all teams can do one more exchange. This allows teams to safely use up their regular 3 changes without having pressure to save one change for a possible overtime.

But watching "friendship" games between national teams where often there are much relaxed change numbers (these games are the one opportunity for the national trainers to experiment widely with the team setup), they tend to be pretty bad. Changing the compositon of a team strongly has a huge potential to be very disruptive. This shows how much football is actually a team play.

Re:Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s ... by 8note on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:44PM (#18549344)
you'd also spend a whole ton of time waiting for players to get on and off the field.
Re:Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s ... by dagw on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @01:12AM (#18549618)
Not if you do it more like hockey does it.
Re:Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s ... by TylerE on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:20AM (#18549817)
That’s easy when your playing surface is 6x smaller.
Re:Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s ... by dagw on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @08:35AM (#18551279)
There is plenty enough "down" time in football as it is that handling it shouldn't be a problem.
Re:Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s ... by gelatocar on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:06AM (#18549965)
You could do it like AFL and not stop the game for substitutions.