Let me be perfectly clear: injuries on the football field (concussions, sprains, broken bones) is BAD. Why O Why are people so distressed by death? Let me tell you: I am a total coward when it comes to mortal harm (well, maybe not a TOTAL coward…) but when it comes to a game? The more the merrier! It’s a game. * AHEM* My nitpicks of the current BB rules (in order):Ĭasualties: you had to take death off the table, didn’t you? Instead of two rolls (armor and injury) you now have to make three (armor, injury, and “extent of casualty”). Apparently, they’ve done away with the Living Rulebook and have one set standard (Thank God!) rather than three or four sets of rules in various stages of “experimentation.” Today, I checked ‘em out. ![]() pdf download available on-line under the heading Blood Bowl Competition Rules). Okay, back to Blood Bowl: Shlominus suggested I check out the latest incarnation of the Blood Bowl rules (a free. A seventh month break from sports is much appreciated around here…besides, Spring and Summer in Seattle is the time to be out-and-about! Yes, between seasons is a long, dry stretch…but, hey, I have books to write blogs to post and role-playing games to play, right? Not to mention family and friends, etc. Personally, I love it…and sure makes it a lot easier to follow. It’s got to be the most mathematically sound professional sport in the world. And no crazy “point gathering” system like in international soccer play.ģ2 teams. No “more than 50% of teams in the play-offs” (that’s YOU, Mr. Totally cut-and-dry right? No “best of” series play. Much chips, dip, and beer is consumed, everyone skips the Pro-Bowl game, and we all go into hibernation until preseason starts in the summer, possibly poking our heads up for Draft Day. The top two teams in each conference get a bye week…everyone else plays a single elimination “wild card play-off game.” The following week, the winners of wild card weekend play the two top seeds from each conference (again, single elimination) in the “divisional play-off round.” The winners of the divisional round (two from each conference) then face each other for the conference championships…again, win or go home.įinally, the two conference champions play each other in the annual Super Bowl, a semi-official holiday here in the United States. The next two best teams from each conference goes to the play-offs as “wild cards.” Total number of teams in the play-offs: 12 (six from each conference). The team with the best record from each division goes to the play-offs. ![]() Each team plays 16 games…no more, no less. The league is divided into two conferences, each with four divisions, each with four teams (nice symmetry, huh?). In the NFL, things are extremely cut and dry. These are TIGHT races, and that makes the game especially exciting.Īnd yes I realize that many of my non-North American readers (I don’t think I have any Mexican followers) would hold up soccer as the greater sport, but personally I have a really, really hard time following their whole schedule of games and qualifiers and cups and tournaments and whatnot. Look folks, I am sorry, but we’re in the last two weeks of the NFL now and only four teams have clinched play-off spots (and no one has clinched 1st place in their division). Okay, since I’ve gone this far I might as well throw up another Blood Bowl post.
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