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3-Team Sports Field
Various games can accommodate 3 teams playing at once, if the field is designed right | |
Before getting to the Idea, I'll mention some links (below) that
already discuss various 3-team sports contests. They all specify
a
triangular playing field, which I think is an error. That's
because,
if the goal is in the corner of a triangle, the out-of-bounds lines
don't provide any
room for more than a couple players in that
area.
In other words, consider a standard soccer field of 105 meters
length and 65 meters width --the goal is in the center of that
65-
meter width, specifically providing room for lots of players
near
the goal. But you can't have that if the goal is in the corner of
a
triangle! And if the goal is in the center of the side of a
triangle,
well, then the distance between goals gets greatly reduced --or
the overall triangular playing field must become relatively
huge.
This Idea seeks to address that problem. It is possible to
construct a hexagon with alternating long and short sides (just
like a typical rectangle has alternating long and short sides). It
won't qualify as a "regular" hexagon (all sides the same length),
but all the angles in this hexagon will still be the normal 60
degrees (if the short sides are the same length, and the long
sides are the same length, different from the short length).
For a soccer field, we obviously want the 3 goals to be located
in
the centers of the 3 short sides of the hexagon, and we want the
distance between any 2 goals to be the normal 105 meters.
For ordinary basketball, the International Rules playing field is
28x15 meters (trivially smaller than the American Rules field,
which is measured in feet),
and so we would want any 2 baskets to be 28 meters apart, in
the
centers of the short sides of our irregular hexagon, for 3-team
basketball.
For ordinary hockey, the playing field is 61x26 meters, and
again
we would want any 2 goals to be 61 meters apart, in the centers
of the short sides of our irregular hexagon, for 3-team hockey.
And so on, for all games where the ball or puck or equivalent
changes hands frequently.
For games like baseball and American-rules football, something
else, not just a modified playing field, is needed (can't have an
11-
man
football team trying to block 22 men of the other two
teams...).
3-team soccer
Tri-Ball
With triangular playing field, as mentioned in the main text. [Vernon, Mar 19 2015]
3-team basketball
Tri-sketball
With triangular playing field, as mentioned in the main text. [Vernon, Mar 19 2015]
3-team American football
triangular_20football
With triangular playing field, as mentioned in the main text. To be fair, this Idea also mentions even more teams playing, and an appropriate polygonal field (six teams playing on a hexagon, for example). [Vernon, Mar 19 2015]
"Something else" for baseball
Many-team_20ballgame
As mentioned in the main text. I'm not sure I agree, and may suggest/post a different "something else" sometime.... [Vernon, Mar 19 2015]
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I've thought about this. I don't think that any shape of field will deter a pre-determined initial two against one arrangement. (+) for the elongatwisted hexagram but there needs to be some buffer to... level the field, so to speak. |
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I feel like if you look around we've already done this here. |
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[2 fries], when a game sort-of requires one team
member to pass the ball (or puck or equivalent) to
another team member, because not allowed to control
it for very long, it is difficult for ganging-up to occur.
I've noticed that in basketball, for example, one guy
surrounded by the opposing team can still pass the ball
over their heads to a team-mate. Why should that
become extra-difficult if two other teams are involved? |
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By the way, there is a rules thing that should be
mentioned. In games like basketball or soccer or
hockey, each team tries to guard a goal, while scoring
at the other goal. Here there is still one goal to guard,
but two other goals where points might be scored.... |
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