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thehef · 08-13-2021, 03:34 AM

I've always thought that catcher's indifference is a stupid scoring rule. It'd be like if, at the end of an NBA game where one team is up by 20, so the guy with the ball is just pounding the rock for those last seconds, nobody is guarding anybody, and the guy with the ball decides to chuck up a three just before the horn. And it goes in. And then they don't give him a three-pointer. Rather, the official scorer chalks it up to "defensive indifference."

Or we've surely seen in football where a team wins the game with a TD on the last play of the game, so the extra point is just a formality and the defense barely lines up, let alone contests the actual kick. So instead of giving the kicker a successful PAT, it's "defensive indifference."

Both of those would be dumb, just like indifference in baseball is.

08-13-2021, 03:34 AM	#3
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,345	I've always thought that catcher's indifference is a stupid scoring rule. It'd be like if, at the end of an NBA game where one team is up by 20, so the guy with the ball is just pounding the rock for those last seconds, nobody is guarding anybody, and the guy with the ball decides to chuck up a three just before the horn. And it goes in. And then they don't give him a three-pointer. Rather, the official scorer chalks it up to "defensive indifference." Or we've surely seen in football where a team wins the game with a TD on the last play of the game, so the extra point is just a formality and the defense barely lines up, let alone contests the actual kick. So instead of giving the kicker a successful PAT, it's "defensive indifference." Both of those would be dumb, just like indifference in baseball is.