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The Decagon should replace the Oval as the shape for an Aussie Rules ground.

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Okay, we all know that people hate ovals. It's obvious that the concept on a sports field just doesn't work. For starters it's impossible to make the curvature absolutely accurate. Even if you think it's a genuine oval shape, it can never genuinely be accurate, because human error comes into play.

I suggest the Decagon.

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It will mean, if a player is lining up on the boundary line for a shot at goal, then then everyone in the stadium will know that the angle he is at will be 144 degrees, because every intenal angle is at 144 degrees.

In the increasing statistical driven time, this sort of certainty for fans and commenators would be a godsend.

It also means, just as importantly a standard shape with exact lengths for every AFL ground. With 10 sides of equal length, and each length being 40 meters, it will create a wonderfully standardized shape that no other sport uses.

UFC jumped ahead of everyone by using the Octagon, and that sport has really taken off. Now we know why. We can out-do them. Ten is 2 more than eight.

The Decagon would essentially become the symbol of Australian Football. No other sport would have the shape of their ground composed with as many sides. We would have the most.

And let's face it... it just looks better. I always had a fascination with Decagons when I was younger.
 

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I think if you were to smooth out the angles into one smooth line and elongate it a bit to make sure its longer that it is wide but also to separate the shape of the field from a circle you might be onto something.

Maybe.
 
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I think if you were to smooth out the angles into one smooth line and elongate it a bit to make sure its longer that it is wide but also to separate the shape of the field from a circle you might be onto something.

Maybe.

I'm definately onto something.

I've also felt that the Decagon isn't one of the more well known shapes, and that's always annoyed me. I mean, we all have 10 fingers and 10 toes and the decimal system is based on that very concept.

We are culturally tuned to be able to understand concepts that are in multiples of 10. And that won't change. Why fight it?

I also think it would make the game easier for fans listening on radio. If Anthony Hudson says, "Bolton has the ball on the second angle in", we all know exactly where said player is.
 
UFC jumped ahead of everyone by using the Octagon, and that sport has really taken off. Now we know why. We can out-do them. Ten is 2 more than eight.

The Decagon would essentially become the symbol of Australian Football. No other sport would have the shape of their ground composed with as many sides. We would have the most.

What happens when another sport starts using the Dodecagon.

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That's 12 sides...Twelve is 2 more than ten.

We'd all be ****ed then, man.
 
Ummm.. I'm not convinced.

Grounds shared between football and cricket would be a bit problematic.

All we need standardised are the goal post spacing, goal square and centre square markings.
 

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What happens when another sport starts using the Dodecagon.

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That's 12 sides...Twelve is 2 more than ten.

Look, I'm open to suggestions. 12 is 2 more than you're right and that is a big advantage the Dodecagon has over the Decagon, and it always will have that advantage. Unfortunately. It pains me, but yes, 12 is 2 more than 10.

But 10 is the number we base the decimal system on, and the Decagon has a sense of normality and a sense of order than no other shape can possibly match.

There is a reaosn we celebrate a player kicking 100 goals, not 101 and a cricketer scoring 100 runs, not 101.

In many ways the world we live in is based around the number 10.
 
Look, I'm open to suggestions. 12 is 2 more than you're right and that is a big advantage the Dodecagon has over the Decagon, and it always will have that advantage. Unfortunately. It pains me, but yes, 12 is 2 more than 10.

But 10 is the number we base the decimal system on, and the Decagon has a sense of normality and a sense of order than no other shape can possibly match.

There is a reaosn we celebrate a player kicking 100 goals, not 101 and a cricketer scoring 100 runs, not 101.

In many ways the world we live in is based around the number 10.

Not the world I live in, champ.

12 months in the year, the 12 apostles of Christ, 12 hours on a clock, 12 eggs in a case, 12 signs of the zodiac, twelve was a character in Street Fighter...and let's not forget the Titanic sunk in the year 1912 and that movie was on TV last night (and Kate Winslot got her kit off).
 
haha just made my day working here on my lonesome on a public holiday in the UK....surrounded totally by Ashes bragging everywhere!!!

This! Except I'm in the US working for a bunch of UK flogs! Cricket is not a subject for discussion after Day 2 of the 4th Test!

OP: The decagon is a novel idea...but is an oval also not a novel idea...what other sports are using oval-shaped grounds?

Clearly the season needs to start...quickly.....
 
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That's right players, an icosihenagon. 21 glorious sides of unpredictability (I'll see your 144 deg. inside angle, and raise you 24.2 deg.). After all, who said our game's dimensions had to be even?

21 is a figure that resonates with us all. It's the age where men traditionally celebrate their entry into manhood. And footy is a man's game (or used to be anyway).

Furthermore, 21 grams is purportedly the weight lost when our soul leaves the body after death. The spirit leaving for the afterlife, as it were. This only reinforces my opinion that going to the footy is a spiritual experience.

It's also the number of a winning hand in blackjack. AFL footballers have a high disposable income and love to gamble. Just ask Ox, Fev or Goodwin.

Lastly (and this is the clincher I think), 21 is 9 more than 12, and a whopping 11 more than 10. Hell it's even 13 more than 8. If an icosihenagon was adopted as AFL standard it would make the sport 2.625 times better than MMA.
 

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As there is no standard sized ground perhaps we could have variable numbers of sides for the ground. North could play with 6 sides, Carlton 7 sides (3 on on side, 4 on the other).

The finals could........................

I am so effin bored with this thread - I just cant be bothered any more, season please start soon.
 
Lots of sports use the oval.

Quidditch for example.

Just waiting for AD to work out the rules for a 'hybrid' game and an international series will be 'on'

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