I'd remove the size constraint on darts, so you could choose to use a lawn dart on your last turn, for example, to score 6352 points.

Backcourt violation in Football (also known as Soccer).

I'm not super into sports so I don't know what the best specific rule to deal with this would be, but there needs to be more accountability for bad calls from referees.

playoff hockey: have referees on the ice that call penalties for rule infractions. playoffs are violent garbage.

Basketball: sooo boring but if you made it like street hoops…

Baseball: no more home runs. If it goes out of the park it's a foul. It will force a much more dynamic infield game and get rid of boring ass pop flys.

Edit: exception for grand slams because that shit is pretty exciting.

Baseball: Strictly timed innings. Take the average time of innings in the last season or two, set that as the time. Inning ends when the time ends. I don't care if it's mid-play, I don't care if the ball's in the air. And no extra innings. Tie game at the end of the 9th inning counts as a mutual loss.

Warhammer 40K: If it's on the table, play it. I don't care if it's a Battletech model, or a can of coke. It's a model, it gets a move, shoot, and melee.

Baseball: There is now a gun under second base.

In basketball, you must always have two limbs touching the ground when you have the ball, unless you are standing, shooting, or jumping. Why? I don't like basketball and think it would be funny as he'll.

Soccer: don't use penalty shootouts to break ties. Penalities are a weird little minigame that don't really represent the most important skills of soccer, which are things like field position and control of the ball.

I'm open to suggestions on what should be done to break ties, but I like the idea of golden point where, if a goal is not scores after a certain amount of time, the number of players on the field starts gradually decreasing. So after 5 minutes of golden point, you drop to 10 vs 10, after 10 minutes it's 9 vs 9, down to a minimum of like 5 vs 5. Fewer players will tend to benefit the attacking team, making scoring more likely as it goes on.

Also soccer, as well as rugby union: just use the fucking clock. When the clock we see on the TV screen reaches 90 (or 80), that's it. Game over. Adjustments due to stoppage time etc. should be made at that time and transparent for everyone to see, by pausing the clock then and there, and resuming it when play resumes. Not added on at the end.

Edit: actually, it seems like rugby union might have already adopted this? I'm not too sure, because I'm a rugby league fan myself, which has always done it the right way (or at least always in my lifetime).

Football

All the players are blindfolded

(I don't enjoy football, but I'd certainly watch it if it involved people running at each other full speed blindfolded)

Edit: American Football, but I'm honestly open to testing this on other sports too

Football:

1. A lot of financial and psr rules.
2. Add rolling subs like basketball.
3. Wenger style offside rule. If any part of the attacking players body is behind the last defender, its onside.
4. Be stricter against defensive players brutally slashing wingers.
5. Stop pthe stupid carding over showboating.

I would implement two salary rules for baseball:

• A hard salary floor and cap. Super cheap teams like the current Rockies that are all but guaranteed to lose is a detriment to the competitiveness of the entire league, as are pay-to-win juggernauts
• No deferred money contracts. They’re bad for competitiveness (see the current Dodgers) and a bummer for fan bases when the time comes to pay out the deferred money and the team can’t afford a viable roster.

Fencing: Allow shields.

Basketball. Same everything, except you have to dribble the ball with your forehead.