44 players on the field at once in OT ... what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish other than a massive confusing shit show?
"The XFL's overtime rules are currently being tested in the Spring League. Luck said each team will have five opportunities to convert a two-point conversion in the overtime session. The defense would score one point with a turnover. "
These rules dont' make sense.
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The more ridiculous rules the league has, the more opportunity to fail. An XFL does not have to be the anti-NFL like the last one, that's one of the reasons it failed. The AAF Failed as well, but those rule changes helped the game... things like only being able to bring 5 rushers improved the quality of offensive play dramatically, something that was terrible in the XFL (QBs were bad, WRs couldn't catch poorly thrown balls, lack of defensive penalties made it worse, unwatchable, where as AAF was still largely watchable).
With the scoring rules, who knows, maybe they're fine, but often times more scoring opportunities does not make better games. I experience this at an arena football game last year, where the home team was up by 10 with 0 seconds left in the game and the game still went to overtime. There was a dead ball foul so the clock ready zero, but the offense still had the ball with 1 play left. They scored a TD on that play, got the two point conversion, and then on the kickoff there's a rule that if they ckick through the uprights it's two points, and because of that rule, play continued for the kickoff... which the opposing kicker made, game went to OT. It was all just incredible arbitrary and 95% of the ~500 fans in the building just wanted the game to end to go home.
