Technology Changes which have enhanced/deterred sports

[cyputz]

Based on an earlier response to athlete’s which changed sports.

My apologies for not given credit to author.
“For swimming, I would lean more towards the suit technology as a fundamental change. All of a sudden, records were falling by a lot by swimmers who wore the high tech body suits.”

What are your thoughts?

 

[psycln11]

Tennis rackets made of carbon instead of wood.

 

[laminak]

Video replays used by the refs/umps/judges to ensure the correct ruling is made.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Would like to see how well some of the golfers would do with hickory shafts and wooden "woods".

 

[frackincygy]

 

[SaraV]

Modern day helmets and protective gear in both football and baseball.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Would like to see how well some of the golfers would do with hickory shafts and wooden "woods".

My first set was a Kmart special (I think they were Northwestern?). The driver head was wood, and it had a hard plastic insert on the face. I could bomb that thing. I'd love to go back with modern technology and see how far and accurately young me could drive it.

 

[KnappShack]

Video replays used by the refs/umps/judges to ensure the correct ruling is made.

Also, video replays for absolutely everything. Even things that don't impact the outcome, but take way too long to review and hurt the flow of the game.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

Also, video replays for absolutely everything. Even things that don't impact the outcome, but take way too long to review and hurt the flow of the game.

They need a 1-minute clock on all replays, the replay booth has three choices, 1. Call on the field is correct, 2, call on the field is reversed, and 3. Call is too close to call, or we cannot tell, revert back to original call on the field.

They have made it with replay that it's almost impossible to deduce what a catch is now adays, they are using super slow-motion video, and watching if the ball moves and overruling catches that in the past should have held up. Speed up the process, put a time limit and let's get on with the game.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Based on an earlier response to athlete’s which changed sports.

My apologies for not given credit to author.
“For swimming, I would lean more towards the suit technology as a fundamental change. All of a sudden, records were falling by a lot by swimmers who wore the high tech body suits.”

What are your thoughts?

That was mine, and I think it's a detriment. Since FINA banned them, they obviously felt the same way.

 

[Gonzo]

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

3 point line in basketball.

 

[KidSilverhair]

They need a 1-minute clock on all replays, the replay booth has three choices, 1. Call on the field is correct, 2, call on the field is reversed, and 3. Call is too close to call, or we cannot tell, revert back to original call on the field.

They have made it with replay that it's almost impossible to deduce what a catch is now adays, they are using super slow-motion video, and watching if the ball moves and overruling catches that in the past should have held up. Speed up the process, put a time limit and let's get on with the game.

Some kind of time limit, anyway.

There’s always a human element involved in “calls on the field,” and when humans are reviewing the video, there’s still a human element involved. It will never be ”perfect.” Let’s accept that, use video replay to overturn clearly missed calls on the field, and move on. If you can’t catch how the umpire/referee botched the call in real-time full-speed game action by using a slow-motion replay for 60 seconds, then you should let it stand. Trying to find a micron of open space between the baserunner’s hand and the base when the tag is applied isn’t a good use of replay.

As to your mention of what a catch is, I’ve somehow come across NFL Film’s 1968 New York Jets season review a couple of times recently. There’s a clip of Don Maynard making a key reception, I think in the AFL championship but it might have been the Super Bowl, where he catches the ball, is immediately tackled, and the ball comes out and bounces over the sideline. I can’t help but see that and think, no way that’s a catch in today‘s NFL.

 

[NWICY]

Instant replay. They spend way too much time doing it. I'd be fine if they just discontinued it.

 

[laminak]

Instant replay. They spend way too much time doing it. I'd be fine if they just discontinued it.

They could still keep it and have a max time limit. I like the one minute max idea above.

I'm for instant replays, as we're a fanbase used to apology letters from the conference in blown calls.

 

[cycfan1]

I miss no replays in baseball.

Truely believe the art of the game is selling the call. First baseman pulling his foot before making catch at first to add few tenths to the catch. Catcher framing pitches. Selling a tag at shortstop. So much gamesmanship that is essentially just robotic now.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

I miss no replays in baseball.

Truely believe the art of the game is selling the call. First baseman pulling his foot before making catch at first to add few tenths to the catch. Catcher framing pitches. Selling a tag at shortstop. So much gamesmanship that is essentially just robotic now.

In the All-Star game last night, they called a homerun as a fair ball, went to replay and you could see it was foul, left of the foul pole.
I keep reading about the high percentage of calls MLB umps get correct, which may be the case, but I can sit on my couch and get 90% correct also. Most are not hard to see that runner was out or safe, we need replay for those 5 to 10 percent that are missed or unsure about. The job of the umps or refs is to get the call right, it has nothing to do with selling it or trying to steal a call that was wrong.

 

[cycfan1]

In the All-Star game last night, they called a homerun as a fair ball, went to replay and you could see it was foul, left of the foul pole.
I keep reading about the high percentage of calls MLB umps get correct, which may be the case, but I can sit on my couch and get 90% correct also. Most are not hard to see that runner was out or safe, we need replay for those 5 to 10 percent that are missed or unsure about. The job of the umps or refs is to get the call right, it has nothing to do with selling it or trying to steal a call that was wrong.

I’m fine with home run calls.
Out/safe calls and balls/strikes are made to be sold. It’s not stealing a call, it’s part of the game. Once baseball goes robot strike zone I’m done.

 

[KidSilverhair]

I miss no replays in baseball.

Truely believe the art of the game is selling the call. First baseman pulling his foot before making catch at first to add few tenths to the catch. Catcher framing pitches. Selling a tag at shortstop. So much gamesmanship that is essentially just robotic now.

This drives me crazy. It’s so blatant to see catchers yanking their gloves violently into the strike zone, even when pitches miss by considerable amounts - yet the statistics show that method of “framing” is actually a good way to steal strike calls during an at-bat.

I used to support the idea of human ball-strike calls, and keeping that human element of variation in the game - but the ridiculously obvious pitch-framing antics of catchers in todays game have changed my opinion. Let’s use technology to call balls and strikes.

I guess it’s not happening next year, though.

 

[Clonefan32]

I remember when I first picked up golf if you had one of these you were a serious golfer: