Talk:Overtime (sports)
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[edit] American and Canadian football
Perhaps it is time to spin this section off to its own article? It has grown quite large. Cheers --Daveb 03:13, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] BE->AE page move
I'm rather surprised to see it wasn't discussed here first, since it seems to be inconsistent with Wikipedia guidelines regarding different country's versions of English. 24.18.215.132 01:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Longest Overtime Games
A short list of the longest overtime games of each sport should be included in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.105.21.234 (talk) 19:22, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
The longest NFL and Pro football games are listed as under 2 hours...? Is this simply actual playing time? i.e. 4x15 min regulation and 2x15 min overtime for a 90 min game? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.193.144.93 (talk) 22:44, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
- Uh, isn't that obvious? I put a note. 128.227.7.105 21:19, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] basketball
in highschool basketball play, the Overtime period is in fact 5 minutes, not 4 like the current article suggests —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ngoogs (talk • contribs) 15:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Association Football
I've noticed over the past couple of years a tendency for commentators and journalists to use "overtime" to refer to stoppage time added at the end of a half, not got any concrete references atm, but might it be worth including when I can find one? 82.13.190.199 (talk) 09:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] NBA Lakers seven or eight overtimes
I hate going senile, but this memory has to be right becasue of the number times I've been called wrong. When I was young, some time in the late 1960s, I woke up to hear on the radio that the Lakers had played eight overtimes the night before. The headline in the Los Angeles Times sports section report that the game went to seven overtimes, but did not give a final score. This is because the Times was put to bed after the sixth overtime. That night on the TV news they talked about the eight overtime game.
Since then, I have heard many times about the seven overtime game. I believe that this comes from misunderstanding the Times headline. But even if I am wrong, I have heard many many times of the seven overtime game, and that beats the six overtime game noted on this page. I have Googled and Alta Visted and Yahooed and I haven't found any reference to this game. I hope some basketball historian can set the record straight. Randall Bart Talk 21:41, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Merger proposal
I didn't make the proposal, but I'm adding the relevant section here and adding my support to the proposal. The fact that BrE and AmE have different names for the same thing does not mean we need different articles, since each is a survey article. If any one sport has a section long enough, that can be refactored out to its own, and obviously the name there will be appropriate for the primary locale: e.g.overtime (American football) and/or extra time (association football) — maybe even overtime (football) and/or extra time (football) respectively, though I would advise against that if and when the time comes. jnestorius(talk) 22:22, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
- Comment if this gets support, I'd point out that (a) Extra time was created on 7 March 2004, while Overtime (sports) wasn't created until 3 May 2004. I've seen occasional instances where the BrE term is created first, but in subsequent merge discussions this is overlooked and the default term becomes the AmE version, in conflict with WP:ENGVAR. Also, in BrE, "overtime" is a commonly used phrase in the workplace, so I think moving everything to extra time makes more sense. --DeLarge (talk) 18:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] NHL overtime
The NHL has (or had) a strange rule which said that if a team pulled their goalie and gave up a losing goal in regular season overtime, they lost their point for the "regulation tie"/"overtime loss." What was the thinking behind that? WHPratt (talk) 02:35, 8 May 2009 (UTC) I checked, and such a rule is still in force. Now, surely this must have been in reaction to some abuse of the overtime concept. Some team in some league must have needed one point to qualify for the playoffs or to clinch some position, and having attained that, must have then decided to blow off the overtime as a waste of their resources. Or perhaps some team really considered that going for the quick kill and letting the chips fall where they might to be an acceptable strategy. (That's interesting, because the argument for rewarding the OT Loss was to guarantee the teams something so that they'd not be afraid to take chances in the overtime.) In any event, there must be an interesting story behind this. WHPratt (talk) 14:44, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
