davidstvz
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Last year the NFL introduced the defer rule for coin tosses and I tried to read up on it and really didn't understand it. The situation seemed the same to me. It seemed to boil down to receive now or receive later. I finally read some more this year and realized that the coin toss is more complicated than I thought. It looks like the winning team chooses:
(a) receive or kick
OR
(b) which side of the field to defend
...leaving the remaining choice for the losing team. Then in the second half, the losing team chooses (a) or (b) leaving the remaining choice for the winning team. Now with the defer rule, the winner of the toss can choose which half to take their pick first in. The confusion comes in because apparently teams choose (a) almost 100% of the time.
Why bother to choose (b)? The only reason I can think of is that you think the weather is making one side of the field so bad that you'd rather choose that over receiving. If anyone ever chose (b) intentionally, the other team would probably end up receiving twice. Anyone know if this ever happened?
Or have I got this all wrong?
(a) receive or kick
OR
(b) which side of the field to defend
...leaving the remaining choice for the losing team. Then in the second half, the losing team chooses (a) or (b) leaving the remaining choice for the winning team. Now with the defer rule, the winner of the toss can choose which half to take their pick first in. The confusion comes in because apparently teams choose (a) almost 100% of the time.
Why bother to choose (b)? The only reason I can think of is that you think the weather is making one side of the field so bad that you'd rather choose that over receiving. If anyone ever chose (b) intentionally, the other team would probably end up receiving twice. Anyone know if this ever happened?
Or have I got this all wrong?