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

[Amber Guzzler]

God save the queen now has a whole new meaning

Although, some might say that scoring by putting a ball in the mouth of a queen is a bit... uno... gay.

 

[Dan]

Although, some might say that scoring by putting a ball in the mouth of a queen is a bit... uno... gay.

 

[m0nty]

I think you people are all missing the point with equiangular equilaterals. What we need here is an isosceles trapezoid.

There are a number of strong advantages to this ground shape. First, football is a television game nowadays, and I have always chafed at the fact that TV cameras situated on the wings show a distorted view of the ground, with the member's wing greatly expanded in the near view and the outer wing seemingly smaller in area. Configuring the ground in this shape with the smaller end nearer to the camera, assuming the angles line up, will make the ground seem like a regular rectangle on the TV. This will make the viewing experience a lot simpler due to the removal of parallax error, which is a blight on the game and is keeping Nielsen figures for the sport well below the potential.

Putting the big end on the member's wing will also allow for a larger member's area, which will be a boon not only to clubs selling premium memberships, but also the AFL selling its bulltish memberships and anti-club abominations like the Medallion Club. Let's be honest, as far as the AFL is concerned, the punters on the outer wing who don't pay for memberships can go and get stuffed, so now they will have to be stuffed into a smaller space, which is a win-win for the league.

AFL coaches have been coaching for years for players to use the fat side, and if there really is a fat side of the ground, it's going to make for much more exciting variations of gamestyle. You would expect Sydney to want to use the smaller outer wing a lot more to bottle things up, whereas Collingwood would tend to play almost exclusively through the member's wing.

Some of you might be thinking, wait a minute, what about the forward pockets, surely it's going to be more difficult to kick goals from there? Not to the modern footballer. Every forward pocket these days practices their Daicosian diagonal bounce goals after training on a weekly if not daily basis. Daniel Motlop will suddenly become a champion goalkicker once again, not to mention a hot prospect post-retirement as a specialist coach to teach the technique of the goal kicked from a 210 degree angle. South Australians in general will become sought after in drafts due to their increased dexterity with the checkside.

All in all, it's a reform long needed by the game. I expect that when Australia bids for and gets the 2026 soccer World Cup, every AFL ground will be rebuilt by the government to accommodate the isosceles trapezoid ground shape, as it shares a lot of the abovementioned advantages with soccer, both forms of rugby, plus Gaelic football and international rules.

In closing: thanks in advance, KB.

 

[motr]

Come on Mods! This thread should be locked. It's all fun and games until someone from the NAB Cup Rules Committee stumbles in.

 

[year of the cat]

Silly thread, should be a triangle

And how do you suppose you make it even? BAM, a third team plays

Imagine the Collingwood V Carlton V Essendon crowds

I like this idea only if we get to blow the ground up during the match.

 

[Lord_Flashheart]

I've given the matter some thought, and I reckon the ground should be a big bowl-shaped depression. Means the ball will tend to stay in play instead of going out of bounds. Better viewing for the spectators.

And you could play with skateboards...

 

[wce4premiership]

6 GTFO's

 

[Higs]

Why not just skip the next logical step and meet the future now

Introducing the Tesseract



A few rules may need some ironing out considering the field will be warping through time and space, but nothing too ridiculous hopefully we do want to preserve our national game somewhat.

 

[liam_13]

Ten is 2 more than eight.

Agreed.

 

[I am a tiger too]

This is a terrrible terrible thread

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

 

[ReservoirDog]

I have nothing to add, I just wanted my name associated with this thread.
Thank you.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

i propose we need obstacles. like this:

and yes, each team gets a horse.

The Sydney Swans being the innovators as usual.

 

[Dan]

The Sydney Swans being the innovators as usual.

A very good horse He was awesome forward in the early 90's

 

[ClintEastwood]

It's a hypercube we really need to start playing in....

 

[krisholio14]

This is a terrrible terrible thread

All this mathematics doing your head in is it?

 

[larrikin]

And you could play with skateboards...

With rockets attached

 

[Lord_Flashheart]

With rockets attached

To the player, the skateboard or the horse...or all 3?

Oh and the football could be a rocket too!

 

[ThePezDispenser]

He's right, it's impossible to draw a perfect oval or circle. They're not physical constructs, they only exist in the world of mathematics. You can describe one mathematically, but you can never draw one.

That's not the same polyhedron, A decahedron has 10 sides, a dodecahedron has 12.

BTW, the colour changing image above isn't a decahedron either, it's a icosahedron.

No, it's not. And you can't prove it by drawing a circle, because any circle you draw, no matter how you draw it, will only be an approximation of a circle.

This guy knows far too much.

 

[Kanga man]

Why not just skip the next logical step and meet the future now

Introducing the Tesseract

The Captain American movie brings some convenient magnetism to your idea.

But the only way it could work is if the tesseraact could be configured in a 2-dimensional way so it could be applied to a football field.

Otherwise it's a ridiculous suggestion.

 

[lionel_luthor]

How bout we get fuzzy dice to replace the Footy, and D and D players to replace the players on the field while we're at it ...

 

[JHF1870]

FFS I thought this thread was dead and buried 15 months ago

 

[BrainOfMorbius]

The game desperately needs innovation in this area. We need to be playing on infinite staircases as famously depicted by MC Escher. Surely then the Lions will be back in with a chance.

 

[intentcity]

A circular field would be alright, that way no matter where you sit you're at equal distance.

It's strange that only really English cricket is a sport with a circle with action in the centre.

 

[Mcveigh]

He's right, it's impossible to draw a perfect oval or circle. They're not physical constructs, they only exist in the world of mathematics. You can describe one mathematically, but you can never draw one.

Scary bald guy in classroom disagrees.

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