This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Game Time vs. Real Time
Jan
27
2015
Everyone familiar with timed sports (football, basketball, hockey, etc.) knows that the last minute of the game lasts a lot longer than the first minute of the game.
But how bad is it? And how does it change during the game?
I thought I would put together a chart showing the concept. I don’t have any actual data – I’m just going off my instinct here.
Maybe the chart is skewed toward the worst case, not average. For example, how long – real time – does the last 10 seconds of a close NBA game take? How many plays can occur in the last 15 seconds of an NFL game if a team is trying to rally a win? That is what I was thinking when I chose the Y-axis scale of multiples of game time. If 15 seconds of the game clock takes 2 minutes of my life, that’s a scale of 8x.
One of the more annoying aspects of sports is the delay that is part of the game but shouldn’t be. Example #1: intentional fouling near the end of a basketball game. Example #2: trying to ice the kicker for field goals in a football game. I hope at some point they change the rules to forbid those.
Any recommendations for the Y-axis scale?
Any other proposed changes to the rules to make the ends of games less annoying to the fans?
What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should endure?
Job 6:11
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:02 am and has been carefully placed in the Sports category.
January 28th, 2015 at 8:33 pm
No proposals for you, but I do know that the delay for sports is the same as for my dryer. It says there’s one minute left, but it’s more like five minutes. I do NOT understand that.